New Door Gasket adn fixed ash trap door

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kbabus

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Dec 18, 2011
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nj
The door gasket on my breckwell 24fs was very old and one of the door traps were letting a lot of air past it. I got this stove from a guy for free and this is my first winter using a pellet stove. I have burnt only AWF pellets
and after reading concluded my door would get all smoked up and dirty because of the pellets I was using. So I replaced the stove gasket and fix the ash trap door just because I finally had the time! So I have been running the stove for two days straight and glass is clean as a whistle,fire seems to be buring ok, however the stove might be putting out less heat, its hard to tell because it is very warm out for this time of year. the one thing I have
notice if I play with the damper and open and close it, it sounds almost like there is air sucking past the gasket. I tried the dollar bill trick with the new gasket on the door and its really not that hard to pull out and even if i push hard on the door myself it still pretty easy to pull out. so does this sound normal and if the gasket was leaking air past it shouldnt the glass get all crapped up or will it act like a air wash.
 
Is there a way to adjust the door latch to make it tighter? 2 out of 3 of my stoves have an adjustment. The Englander doesn't, but the handle works on pressure. The more you push, the tighter it gets. So it essentially has one too.
 
There is a way to adjust the door a little, however the door latch on this door has a spring on the outside of the door handle so it really never pull it as tight as i think it should get. thats why I pushed hard on the door to see if
I could make the sound go away. maybe it has always made this noise. That why I asked about the glass being so clean now. Either the gasket is working great or is acting as some kind of a air wash and keeping the glass clean.
 
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