St. Croix Hastings door gasket *updated with pic*

Does anyone know what size the rope door gasket is supposed to be for the St. Croix Hastings? I replaced mine, but get some odd ash patterns on the bottom of the window, and I'm thinking it wasn't thick enough. The manual doesn't say, and if I email st. croix, the email either fails, or they tell me to contact my dealer, although the dealer I bought the stove from isn't a st. croix dealer anymore and they don't really know much anyway. Thanks.

Updated with pic

SmokeyTheBear said:

ylomnstr said:

Does anyone know what size the rope door gasket is supposed to be for the St. Croix Hastings? I replaced mine, but get some odd ash patterns on the bottom of the window, and I'm thinking it wasn't thick enough. The manual doesn't say, and if I email st. croix, the email either fails, or they tell me to contact my dealer, although the dealer I bought the stove from isn't a st. croix dealer anymore and they don't really know much anyway. Thanks.

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Does the gasket pass the dollar bill test?

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I think so. I mean, I can pull the bill out in certain spots. It doesn't slide out very easily, but I can pull it out. Should I be able to pull it out at all?

SmokeyTheBear said:

ylomnstr said:

SmokeyTheBear said:

ylomnstr said:

Does anyone know what size the rope door gasket is supposed to be for the St. Croix Hastings? I replaced mine, but get some odd ash patterns on the bottom of the window, and I'm thinking it wasn't thick enough. The manual doesn't say, and if I email st. croix, the email either fails, or they tell me to contact my dealer, although the dealer I bought the stove from isn't a st. croix dealer anymore and they don't really know much anyway. Thanks.

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Does the gasket pass the dollar bill test?

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I think so. I mean, I can pull the bill out in certain spots. It doesn't slide out very easily, but I can pull it out. Should I be able to pull it out at all?

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The gasket should present resistance when you pull the dollar out. The reason for doing the test in multiple spots is to make sure the door is sealed evenly. Sometimes it is the door that needs adjustment and the gasket is actually fine.

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Yeah it definitely has resistance. I've done it all around the door and the resistance is consistent.

SmokeyTheBear said:

ylomnstr said:

SmokeyTheBear said:

ylomnstr said:

SmokeyTheBear said:

ylomnstr" date="1320698929 said:

Does anyone know what size the rope door gasket is supposed to be for the St. Croix Hastings? I replaced mine, but get some odd ash patterns on the bottom of the window, and I'm thinking it wasn't thick enough. The manual doesn't say, and if I email st. croix, the email either fails, or they tell me to contact my dealer, although the dealer I bought the stove from isn't a st. croix dealer anymore and they don't really know much anyway. Thanks.

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Does the gasket pass the dollar bill test?

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I think so. I mean, I can pull the bill out in certain spots. It doesn't slide out very easily, but I can pull it out. Should I be able to pull it out at all?

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The gasket should present resistance when you pull the dollar out. The reason for doing the test in multiple spots is to make sure the door is sealed evenly. Sometimes it is the door that needs adjustment and the gasket is actually fine.

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Yeah it definitely has resistance. I've done it all around the door and the resistance is consistent.

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Now what is the thing that caught your eye about the ash pattern, that could be an air wash / window gasket issue if it is an issue at all.

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Well not sure if you remember, but I was the one having a lazy flame issue since the end of last year. I seemed to have solved that with the leaf blower cleaning. The flame looks crisp, nice and bright, but the window still seems to ash up faster than I can remember. Granted, I've been running the stove on speed 2 of 5, so I know it gets dirtier quicker on low settings, but it hasn't been cold enough to crank to 3 yet. I'll see if I can get a picture of what i mean, but the bottom of the window has spikes of ash, almost like looking at a graph with big spikes and low spikes. The top of the window seems to get covered the most, but I don't remember the peaks at the bottom of glass, nor do I remember so much ash on the window only after a day or 2 of burning. It's light ash and wipes right off, I just don't recall having it ash up that quickly.

Thanks guys, attached is a pic of the pattern i'm curious about.

I just dumped in my last bag from what I had left over from last year. My next bag will be a different brand, so it will be interesting to see if there's any difference with the new pellets. And you're welcome about the Pats. Seems the Giants have their number lately (or since 2007 at least Good luck this weekend. You'll need it.

DexterDay said:

Looks like the airwash os plugged with dust bunnies (or the like). I use a lighter and run it across my airwash once a month. The flame gets sucked in by the air and then burns up any dust or foreign matter.

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Where the heck is my airwash??

DexterDay said:

SmokeyTheBear said:

If there is crud in the air wash gap there will be places that do not get an air flow by them ash will tend to pile up in that area.

It's a trade off clean one thing or clean another thing especially in low burn situations.

Funny thing about the leaf blower isn't it?

I remember a lot of folks with burn issues, usually because I every once in a while get blow back because the stove is already "clean", but hey that's life.

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I was not the 1st to mention "Airwash". Smokey did awhile ago..

The airwash is a small gap that pulls air around the window, or in other stoves, through a channel and across the glass to keep it clean.

With glass that looks like that, you either have a plugged airwash, or a plugged stove (dirty)

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I thought I have fixed my dirty stove with the leaf blower trick. My flame definitely looks better than it did before I did the leaf blower trick when I was getting black soot after a night of burning. I've been going a couple of days on lower speed before getting the glass dirty. Way better than before the blower. So if it is a dirty stove, I have no idea where it can be dirty from considering I've cleaned this thing as best as I can. Would a bad rope gasket cause this also? Or am I looking in the wrong spot?

DexterDay said:

Smokey beat me while I was typing. He is VERY thorough. And knows what he is talking about.

Have you ever tried running a lighter across the bottom of the glass?? Maybe there is no airwash?

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Not sure what you mean by that? Run a lighter across the bottom of the glass on the outside while it's running? Sorry to sound ignorant, just never heard of this before.

imacman said:

ylomnstr said:

Not sure what you mean by that? Run a lighter across the bottom of the glass on the outside while it's running? Sorry to sound ignorant, just never heard of this before.

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If you put a lighter (or match) flame near the bottom of the glass while the stove is running, if it has a bottom glass airwash system, the flame will get sucked toward the glass.

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I just tried that and didn't notice anything that would make me thing there's an airwash system.

imacman said:

ylomnstr said:

Not sure what you mean by that? Run a lighter across the bottom of the glass on the outside while it's running? Sorry to sound ignorant, just never heard of this before.

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If you put a lighter (or match) flame near the bottom of the glass while the stove is running, if it has a bottom glass airwash system, the flame will get sucked toward the glass.

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I just tried that and didn't notice anything that would make me thing there's an airwash system.