Well, the easy one was the gasket - the next ones get more problematic. As you know, the upper burning chamber gets coated with creosote, which is completely normal and expected for a gasification boiler. However, being sealed, this creosote can never give off an odor to the outside. But, running your boiler like you did (with the damper open for such a long time), could easily have sent a significant amount of creosote into the turbulator linkage area of the boiler, and the flue pipes - the short one that's a part of the EB back plate, all connector flue pipes, and some part of the chimney pipe itself. The creosote may have deposited on some or all of these things. The odor from creosote deposited in the flue pipes would be very likely to find a way out of the pipe seams. Do you have any section of your flue connector that can be disassembled reasonably easily? If you can get one or more sections removed then you can examine the inside of those pieces, and get a light up into some of the rest of it as well. I hope you don't find much, especially in the back plate area of the boiler :sick:JimP said:
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