The biggest threat to my stove....

SEE! We told you guys that you have to keep your stoves clean! And I hope this teaches you a lesson about not having your OAK hooked up. ;-)

Seriously though, that is too funny. I really like the red shoe...how the heck did they get that in the pipe???

BTW, now that you did the "deep cleaning", does the stove run any better?

LOL! You need to buy them more interesting toys
so they won't mess around near the stove.

LOL !! Gotta love the little critters :lol:

Could have been much worse if the crayons went into the hopper. What a mess that could create.........

Small children and pests are the sworn enemies of any appliance that uses fresh air. Check out the HVAC forums and see what kinds of things are getting in high efficiency boiler and furnace PVC air intakes right where kids can get at them.

This is nothing that some heavy gauge screening can't fix.

alexei27 said:

Amazing...I ran it at "7" for an hour to be sure, and its running like a champ.

Tomorrow I'll hook up the OAK where it belongs and take the little monsters out of the equation.

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I bet the "little monsters" didn't do it. Just ask them!

certainly thats a stove design flaw, and should be covered under warrantee, right?!

I only WISH my problem was as minor as yours... One dark and stormy night back in the fall I turned on the XXV to take the chill out of the air. Ten minutes later as I'm using the loofah on my backside in the shower, the smoke detectors throughout the house start making their "BEEP, BEEP, BEEP! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!" annunciations. Jump out of the shower soaking wet and there is smoke coming from the living room (where the pellet stove sits) with a rather pungent "burnt plastic" smell. Standing naked in front of the pellet stove wondering why in the heck smoke is blowing out the front, I grab a flashlight and notice behind the "XXV" emblem is a puddle of melted plastic from some still unknown item (Did I mention the 18 month old grand kid was at the house earlier???) Certainly I can't let that puddle of melted plastic continue to smoke me out of the house so I grab an old screwdriver to try to scrape out the melted plastic but wouldn't you know the vent opening is onlyslightly wider than my old chubby fingers. Yup, got a nice burn on the thumb and pointy finger! Needless to say I turned the stove off to let the plastic cool and re-harden so I could get to it the next day. BTW, the house smelled like burnt plastic for at least a week after. To this day we have no idea what the grand kid pushed through the front of the stove...

Oh my! Somebody has been busy :lol:

Guess putting things down the heater vents and inside the vcrs are old school now.

tinkabranc said:

Guess putting things......... inside the vcrs are old school now.

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Funny, I seem to remember that a Pop Tart fits sideways in a VCR quite nicely......don't ask how i know......

macman said:

Funny, I seem to remember that a Pop Tart fits sideways in a VCR quite nicely......don't ask how i know......

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This is all too funny. This gave me flashbacks of my childhood doing stupid things. Boy, does this make me look forward to having kids! AND the wife and I are currently trying....

buddy of mine told me this story- had a smell in the living room they could not figure out. weeks of horrible odors, had cleaning people, exterminators, etc in to no avail. a month or so later, went to watch a video, and found a tuna sandwich stuffed into a vhs video case on the shelf. had kids 3 and 5. go figure!

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Panhandler said:

alexei27 said:

Amazing...I ran it at "7" for an hour to be sure, and its running like a champ.

Tomorrow I'll hook up the OAK where it belongs and take the little monsters out of the equation.

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I bet the "little monsters" didn't do it. Just ask them!

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correct. I questioned them about it today and they looked at me like I had 3 heads.

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You dont have a cat do you? We had a cat that hid small toys like that. It was amazing some of the places we would find stuff.

Panhandler said:

alexei27 said:

Amazing...I ran it at "7" for an hour to be sure, and its running like a champ.

Tomorrow I'll hook up the OAK where it belongs and take the little monsters out of the equation.

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I bet the "little monsters" didn't do it. Just ask them!

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Whenever I ask 'who did it?', the standard response is 'I dunno'. If I ever get my hands on this I-dunno person they will wish they were never born

thats too funny, I have a 4 year old who is very helpful when it comes to the stoves. She always "helps" me clean them, I let her run the vac as I try to explain to her how important it is to keep the stoves clean and I let her scoop pellets into the hopper (that can get messy) But I do try to get her involved and make her understand what the stove is, why we have it, how it works and the dangers it could cause. (ie don't touch it, never feed it anything but pellets, never open the door while it is running) I think she has a good respect for the stove and tells me "daddy, the stove is getting angry, you need to clean it" when the glass starts to get messy. Kids are never to young for knowledge in my book, the more you teach them the more they understand. but be prepared if you start teaching them how to use the computer at age 2 they will be fully capable of web surfing by age 3 and it will be time to buy another computer.

dac122 said:

Panhandler said:

alexei27 said:

Amazing...I ran it at "7" for an hour to be sure, and its running like a champ.

Tomorrow I'll hook up the OAK where it belongs and take the little monsters out of the equation.

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I bet the "little monsters" didn't do it. Just ask them!

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Whenever I ask 'who did it?', the standard response is 'I dunno'. If I ever get my hands on this I-dunno person they will wish they were never born

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dac, the problem is that you're looking for the wrong person......you need to look for Mr. "NoT Me".

Or, you need to pressure "the Informer" one into talking.



Ah...the joys of offspring!

mainegeek said:

macman said:

Funny, I seem to remember that a Pop Tart fits sideways in a VCR quite nicely......don't ask how i know......

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This is all too funny. This gave me flashbacks of my childhood doing stupid things. Boy, does this make me look forward to having kids! AND the wife and I are currently trying....

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Dimes in a 3-1/2" disk drive.........."how did they get in there?"............."I dunno"..........

Anyone think it could be Boo Radley.

That Not Me critter is sure busy gumming up the works all over the place ;-).

You also need to understand that I dunno, likely does know.