Ashley AP5660L -- Original Burn Pot - Gasket Section Failed

Thanks for the input clad as I am too on my second burnpot that has warped a little over 3 weeks,next I was going out to my favorite fabrication shop and have them make me one for 50.00,might be able to get along yet this year,but don't know.Wonder what Owen on here would have to say about this?

Looking forward to hearing your updates on wear & tear of the refurb burnpot. Do you know what metal was used on the original?

Your first pot must have been a defect or something. I have the same stove, been burning since end of October & my burn pot did not do this.

I'd be soaking that pot in a bucket of warm water for an hour or so and removing the hard carbonj with a putty knife. Thats the largest buildup of hard carbon I've seen in a while...............

In your first post. btw.

titanracer said:

your first pot must have been a defect or something. I have the same stove, been burning since end of October & my burn pot did not do this.

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Im on my second ap5660 burn pot also. This new one Is warping as well

Are you guys running on like setting 5 or something, for long periods of time, which is building tons of heat to warp your pots. I have never had to run higher than setting 3. Tons of heat comes from this stove for me, never had a reason to go higher than 3. That's just crazy to be going thru burn pots like that.

titanracer said:

Are you guys running on like setting 5 or something, for long periods of time, which is building tons of heat to warp your pots. I have never had to run higher than setting 3. Tons of heat comes from this stove for me, never had a reason to go higher than 3. That's just crazy to be going thru burn pots like that.

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The highest Ive ever run has been 4. Most of this stoves life has been on setting 1

titanracer said:

Are you guys running on like setting 5 or something, for long periods of time, which is building tons of heat to warp your pots. I have never had to run higher than setting 3. Tons of heat comes from this stove for me, never had a reason to go higher than 3. That's just crazy to be going thru burn pots like that.

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I would think the pot should be designed to stay intact throughout the burn settings the stove is designed for. This is a Mauf. defect and should be rectified by same

Just curious, those of you with warping burn pots, are you burning hardwoods or softwoods. Just wondering if there is a connection there. Like I said, I've had mine now starting on 5 months of burning & no issues with warping or flaking of any burn pot. Now I have only been burning hardwood pellets, Hamer's and Somerset's. I do know softwood pellets burn hotter, could that be an issue. I do have a ton of Blazer softwoods in garage, that I have not yet started using. If there is a relationship between hardwoods or softwoods, I'm about to find out, because I'm just about done with all my hardwoods. Who now's, maybe some stove's burn pot were made earlier in the production from US steel, ( and I have one of those) and maybe now they are using some cheap China steel or something. Just saying, something is causing this issue that I have not experienced yet and hope not to. If softwoods verses hardwoods is maybe a issue, I would like to know before I start on my softwoods.

titanracer said:

Just curious, those of you with warping burn pots, are you burning hardwoods or softwoods. Just wondering if there is a connection there. Like I said, I've had mine now starting on 5 months of burning & no issues with warping or flaking of any burn pot. Now I have only been burning hardwood pellets, Hamer's and Somerset's. I do know softwood pellets burn hotter, could that be an issue. I do have a ton of Blazer softwoods in garage, that I have not yet started using. If there is a relationship between hardwoods or softwoods, I'm about to find out, because I'm just about done with all my hardwoods. Who now's, maybe some stove's burn pot were made earlier in the production from US steel, ( and I have one of those) and maybe now they are using some cheap China steel or something. Just saying, something is causing this issue that I have not experienced yet and hope not to. If softwoods verses hardwoods is maybe a issue, I would like to know before I start on my softwoods.

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Mine was warped before my first ton of green supreme hard soft wood blend was burned up. Second one warped with a mixture of some soft and some hardwoods. I dont think that mattered In my case

Well, think I may have been snake bitten and just the beginning to my stove burn pot issues. I'm going to refer back to a question I already previous ask, do you think there warping because of burning softwood pellets. I going to explain here. I been burning since end of October, beginning of November, using nothing but hardwoods and had not have to run above setting 2, except on 1 or 2 times. I have not seen or had any burn pot issues, because I would have seen it with the amount of cleaning I do. Well, last evening I cleaned the stove, which I do about every day, 2 at the latest, and thru in a bag of AWF's white pine softwoods & adjusted stove to setting 3, due to it was in the single digits and very windy. Well I cleaned the stove about 1 hour ago after burning them, and what I always done, after burning a new pellet. There's 2 reasons I do this, 1, I like to start with a clean stove with a new pellet, to get a good idea on how they burn, and clean it after a day to kind of read the stove on how things burnt. 2nd, I'm anal, I believe a clean stove, is a happy stove and will burn it's most efficient and give you the most possible heat, if well cleaned. Anyhow, I lifted the burn pot out and the whole back of it on top of the round lip area, where the ash would lay when falling over back edge of burn pot, down between pot a back brick fire wall panel, the top layer of metal has flaked off and the bare steel underneath was exposed. The metal underneath was a weird aqua bluish color (cheap steel). Well, I think I have now been bitten and expect nothing but problems from here on. My conclusion is EXTREME heat that has cause this. Softwood pellets do indeed burn hotter then hardwood pellets and with me putting these in and cranking her up a notch, has caused this to happen. I see a new pot, in the near future coming.

It would really help to know exactly what kind of steel they are making their pots out of. Different types behave in different fashion when submitted to heat cool cycles. You could try to "normalize" your pot. Maybe google for instructions. Maybe put it in your oven at 500* for about an hour and slowly bring it down to room temp. That might help relieve the stress that the pot is under. That stress may have been introduced during the weld repair.

Another thought, is this issue also showing up in the model AP5660, this would be the basic same stove with the pedal stool base on it or is this just happening in the model AP5660L with the legs. Anybody out there with the standard AP5660 pedal stool base, having issues.

It's the quality of the metal the pot is made of,I'm on my second one and have only had my stove on three at the highest,doesn't do any good to season them as I've already done that too.shouldn't matter what kind of pellets you burn softwoods or hardwoods the pot is just cheap metal.

As with everyone else on here the pot warps in the same spot,listen to clad as he has tried to remedy the issue many times.

I had two pots warp way before I ran my awf white pines

Where is owen on this? Id be intrested in a remedy

Lordmetal I was going to say that but I didn't, just like the last conversation on a 5660 issue can't quite remember what it was now .

I messaged him hopefully he has some good insight