Clinker of the Month award!!

By the time that thing comes out, it has to be a bad burn.....

I cant see where the pot holes are supposed to be? Gotta block a lot of air...

You definitely win... Thats a big'in...

Have you looked at it again. There was another thread where a women was having the same problems.... Just wondering?

Hope you get it figured out. If all gaskets check out. It may be a failing combustion blower?

You did know that they were only joking about burning chicken waste in the stove. Didn't you?

I watch the pot and the flame. When it starts to fill half way up, or if the fire starts to look more like a hula dance than a torch, then I know that I better get that pot cleaned out PDQ. If there is still a lazy flame, then it is time for the leaf blower etc. The fact of the matter is I get those clinkers with one certain brand of pellets. (three years running). One other forum member has suggested that this is too much green stuff in the pellets. So, I have found some other pellets that do not form clinkers. But there are many in this forum who keep saying these new brands don't burn as hot as some others. I would like a pellet with more heat, but I don't want to go broke in the process. So far today's high is right now at 20 f, and the low was 4 f . The temp upstairs (stove is down stairs) is high of 72 f and low of 69 f. The level the sovereign is on is 74 to 78 f. House is 2100 sf floor space. We have closed the doors to the rooms no in use. My furnace is set at 60 f. To my amazement, the wife isn't on my back.

All I can say is.....YIKES! :gulp:

How long does it take to make a turd that big?

Don't those furnaces self clean?

That kind of thing isn't composed of pure ash or carbon but something else, like silica. It's like a crappy cousin of glass. One would have to suspect that the wood/tree that the pellets were made from had absorbed lots of sand over the years before being harvested. That would happen to some degree in trees along a river or in a river plain. But something that size requires ignoring the combustion pot for a long time. Better to clean it a little more often to keep the air-flow unimpeded by such a monster.

That's a "BIG" one! And I still don't miss them! :cheese:

Better, but no cigar yet.