Avalon Olympic Baffle repair - Anyone have experience?

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Burn-1

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Feeling the Heat
Jul 13, 2006
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Lakes Region, NH
I picked up a 6 year old Avalon Olympic off a want ad and I'm changing out some of the firebricks and replacing the old mild steel tubes with the new stainless tubes and the slightly warped center baffle support.

It's like some Chinese finger prison in there, definitely not as easy as the baffle in the PE Vista or the old NC30 I used to have. The manual has some details but not great ones. If anyone has some tips I would appreciate it.
 
The instructions are not correct, in order to remove the tubes you have to pull both roll pins, not just the inside one. I found this out dismantling my stove in order to lighten it and make it easier for me to get it into the house alone. The roll pins are not easy to get out, mine appeared to be painted over and it got into the groove.

If your objective is to replace all the tubes you'll have to pull all the pins, but if you're only pulling out fire bricks the first tube is all you need to take out. Once you pull the front tube everything from the rear can be unloaded forward over the top of the second tube. Then you can pull the T from the center out and proceed to remove tubes two and three.

BTW, how did you find out that there were 'new' stainless tubes for this stove? I asked Avalon about changes to the Olympic before I bought my never fired 2005 model and they stated that there were no changes.

steve
 
thanks for the reply. I just got started and the first thing I will mention is that the tubes might look like stainless but I don't think they are. I had asked the dealer why they cost so much and he said he thought they were stainless now.

The tubes are not easy to get out at all. The collars on tubes look stuffed with fly ash and some of the tubes have push pins and the others roll pins. The hacksaw is looking good right about now.
 
Don't give up, use a vice grip and squeeze and wiggle / turn, that got mine out reasonably well.

Are you sure the air tubes need to be replaced? I'm not sure what the longevity is for these but I would have to believe that they'd last a good long time.

I think you're right, they probably aren't stainless, parts just cost more than we expect sometimes.

steve
 
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