Late one evening when to put a load in the EKO for the overnight burn and when I went to close the door it wouldn't latch right and was leaking a bunch of smoke past the gasket , this would not due. Opened the door and tried to relatch and the door was kind of hanging down so I looked at the hinge and found the washer/bushing thats was welded to the mounting ear on the boiler was broken.
Figured I might be able to rig it at least to go thru this burn as I had a full load of wood in the boiler.
Tried to hold / prop the door with some pipe and loosen the door and rebolt it down back in the original position however the bolt was too tight and began to round off as I tried to turn it.
Yikes this was not working at all and the temp was rising fast in the boiler because I could not keep the door closed. I decided it was time to get the wood out of there ran inside and got the fireplace tongs pushed a wheelbarrow up by the door and unloaded some wood until it was so smokey I couldn't see or breath and the fire was still going strong so I got the snow shovel and threw a bunch in until the fire died out. The temp got up over 99 C for a bit and I wondered if any thing was damage everything looked ok and was down to a safe temp so I went to bed.
In the morning I took another look and there was some water leaking out the top of the air scoop and some dripping from the overflow
after tightening the scoop top I looked at the hinge and discovered the nut was in bad shape and the washer was broke.
Decided I better get some new nuts and clean off the remains of the washer that was still welded to the ear also I had a new gasket so might as well put that on while everything was shut down . Got it all assembled and everything is working well , still have to weld in the washers to keep the hinge from moving in it's slot but it looks good for now.
It appears after many operations of the door the stress broke the washer and allowed the hinge to slide out of place.
Got everything working and got lucky that the heat
Figured I might be able to rig it at least to go thru this burn as I had a full load of wood in the boiler.
Tried to hold / prop the door with some pipe and loosen the door and rebolt it down back in the original position however the bolt was too tight and began to round off as I tried to turn it.
Yikes this was not working at all and the temp was rising fast in the boiler because I could not keep the door closed. I decided it was time to get the wood out of there ran inside and got the fireplace tongs pushed a wheelbarrow up by the door and unloaded some wood until it was so smokey I couldn't see or breath and the fire was still going strong so I got the snow shovel and threw a bunch in until the fire died out. The temp got up over 99 C for a bit and I wondered if any thing was damage everything looked ok and was down to a safe temp so I went to bed.
In the morning I took another look and there was some water leaking out the top of the air scoop and some dripping from the overflow
after tightening the scoop top I looked at the hinge and discovered the nut was in bad shape and the washer was broke.
Decided I better get some new nuts and clean off the remains of the washer that was still welded to the ear also I had a new gasket so might as well put that on while everything was shut down . Got it all assembled and everything is working well , still have to weld in the washers to keep the hinge from moving in it's slot but it looks good for now.
It appears after many operations of the door the stress broke the washer and allowed the hinge to slide out of place.
Got everything working and got lucky that the heat