Ok..I am new to the pellet stove world..got a stove CHEAP...and have been restoring it witht he help of members here...(thanks guys!!)...I pretty much dissembled it...freed up the feed tube ..new gasket etc...I took the auger motor loose in the process...and now that I put it back on..I am confused about how the long bar that sticks out of the auger motor should be..in the photo you can see the metal bar between the auger motor wires...its just a flat piece of metal mounted to the auger motor so that the motor cant just rotate around and around...I am assuming other pellet stoves have this....but maybe not?....the way it is now....the weight of the auger motor d bar can sometimes make the feed auger tube roll backwards...I could position the bar so that the weight of the auger motor and bar would only make the auger motor turn forward..so the bar would be angled to the right...and down..instead of to the left and down... .I actually put it back the way I found it ..but it seems wrong and I think the prior owner didn't care for the stove properly...so he may have had the bar on the wrong side...I WOULD GREATLY appreciate your help...I am so damn close to firing this stove up now and feeling good about the restoration...but confused about how to install the auger motor...
which way should the bar on the auger motor point. can auger roll backwards?...or only forwards?....
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