This morning I tried to adjust my top door as it was leaking a bit of smoke on the left side below the handle. I adjusted it on the hinges and it is smoking worse. Is there a way to adjust the door on the handle side?
Econoburn door adjustment
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The doors are not adjustable on the latch side. If you adjusted the door improperly, it may now be out of parallel with the sealing flanges... just a thought.
Is your boiler new? Sometimes the door gaskets need "seasoned" a bit before they seal properly. For the first week or so the gasket on our ebw200 leaked a bit, making the house smell like beef jerky. I believe there is a thread on that somewhere. I found that the very best way to care for the seal and to keep it "seasoned" is to apply mineral oil (baby oil) to the gasket once a week or so. It seems to keep the seal pliable, and so far, there has been no smoke smell in the house since i discovered the oil treatment. I think this is recommended by one of the other manufacturers.
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Is your boiler new? Sometimes the door gaskets need "seasoned" a bit before they seal properly. For the first week or so the gasket on our ebw200 leaked a bit, making the house smell like beef jerky. I believe there is a thread on that somewhere. I found that the very best way to care for the seal and to keep it "seasoned" is to apply mineral oil (baby oil) to the gasket once a week or so. It seems to keep the seal pliable, and so far, there has been no smoke smell in the house since i discovered the oil treatment. I think this is recommended by one of the other manufacturers.
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Hi wantstoburnwood
I had a leaker in the same area , it took me alot of tryes to stop the leak . My big stombling block was learning how to move the door in or out using the big 1 1/8'' lock nuts . Once the concept was acepeted by my dislexic brain , I realized I had to tighten the bottom hinge and slightly loosen the top hinge . Somehow I found the sweet spot , helped alot. I also installed a heavy duty draft hood directly over the Econoburn , the hoods exaust is piped into a unused triple wall chimney , the day's of smoke in my face or boiler room are over !!
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I had a leaker in the same area , it took me alot of tryes to stop the leak . My big stombling block was learning how to move the door in or out using the big 1 1/8'' lock nuts . Once the concept was acepeted by my dislexic brain , I realized I had to tighten the bottom hinge and slightly loosen the top hinge . Somehow I found the sweet spot , helped alot. I also installed a heavy duty draft hood directly over the Econoburn , the hoods exaust is piped into a unused triple wall chimney , the day's of smoke in my face or boiler room are over !!
Happy New Year Anthony
The hood range is an excellent idea... something I run past every customer when they want an installation estimate. It doesn't necessarily need to be exhausted to a chimney either. Not sure about codes on such a thing in every area... but around here lots of people just vent it directly through the basement wall... just like a hood range on a stove top.
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NO NO NO on mineral oil or baby oil-- it is combustible at worst! Volatile and crusty at best ! Go to mcmaster.com and get a tube of dow corning #4 silicone grease. seals lots of things, and it will not burn at any sane temp.
GOO up your gaskets with that. massage it into the gaskets like it was, well, someone of the opposite gender who you were into...
a little goes a long way
hearth's boiler room- rocking into 2009- oops, I better go back to sweating pipes, knockin tin and settin up the flue stack, so that I can stop trying to heat a huge drafty old VT farmhouse with a wood cookstove and a vanishing tank of oil... wearing a knit hat to bed; well, my predecessors here did it....
GOO up your gaskets with that. massage it into the gaskets like it was, well, someone of the opposite gender who you were into...
a little goes a long way
hearth's boiler room- rocking into 2009- oops, I better go back to sweating pipes, knockin tin and settin up the flue stack, so that I can stop trying to heat a huge drafty old VT farmhouse with a wood cookstove and a vanishing tank of oil... wearing a knit hat to bed; well, my predecessors here did it....
Have you expiramented with the mieral oil? I have not found it to be crusty in any way, and my gaskets have not leaked since I started using it.
True... it is combustible... but so is the wood I put the the boiler. If I were dumping a gallon of it over a coal bed that would be one thing... but brushing a little on the gasket when the boiler is nearly out seems pretty safe. I still have all my eyebrows anyways.
I am not sure I have ever used #4 silicone grease for anything. Open for new ideas any time though. Does it stink? The biggest reason I used the mineral oil/baby oil was because it doesn't have an offensive odor.
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True... it is combustible... but so is the wood I put the the boiler. If I were dumping a gallon of it over a coal bed that would be one thing... but brushing a little on the gasket when the boiler is nearly out seems pretty safe. I still have all my eyebrows anyways.
I am not sure I have ever used #4 silicone grease for anything. Open for new ideas any time though. Does it stink? The biggest reason I used the mineral oil/baby oil was because it doesn't have an offensive odor.
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