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  1. leatherguy
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    Thanks to hearth.com forum for cech & polish translation help

    I want to thank all those folks that responded to various issues dealing with the EKO controller parameters. I would go to the handbook and I just...
    Thread by: leatherguy, Feb 11, 2013, 0 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
  2. leatherguy
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    Help with Smoking Tasso

    I wrote 6 panels 3 on each side on my 4 section boiler. but if you have a larger 5 section boiler you will have 8 panels.
    Post by: leatherguy, Dec 28, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
  3. leatherguy
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    Help with Smoking Tasso

    I'm pretty sure the problem lies in pluged air tubes. The only way to get at them is to take top of boiler trim off. then there are 6 panels that are...
    Post by: leatherguy, Dec 28, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
  4. leatherguy
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    Help with Smoking Tasso

    i have a retired tasso, nice boiler but did make a lot of creosote. 2 things to check. 1st the upper air chamber is connected to the fire box with...
    Post by: leatherguy, Dec 27, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
  5. leatherguy
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    too much unburned ashes, what should I adjust on my Eko 40

    Just an update. I got abouts 13 days buring at full gasification, I pulled the screen and the wire was broken and very thin. so i got 2 fire brick 9...
    Post by: leatherguy, Dec 26, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
  6. leatherguy
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    too much unburned ashes, what should I adjust on my Eko 40

    The stainless grate is made from a 1/4 slotted aggregate screen the wires are about 1/16 " thick and I took out every other one in the lengthwise...
    Post by: leatherguy, Dec 16, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
  7. leatherguy
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    too much unburned ashes, what should I adjust on my Eko 40

    I am happy to report that I had a complete burn last night, no unburned charcoal. So my stainless grate with 1/2" slots is going to work. I'll try to...
    Post by: leatherguy, Dec 15, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
  8. leatherguy
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    too much unburned ashes, what should I adjust on my Eko 40

    I modified my screen that lays over the nozzle 1/2" slotted stainless steel mesh. I've got great gasification going now. lets see what happens, I'll...
    Post by: leatherguy, Dec 14, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
  9. leatherguy
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    too much unburned ashes, what should I adjust on my Eko 40

    Post by: leatherguy, Dec 14, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
  10. leatherguy
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    too much unburned ashes, what should I adjust on my Eko 40

    I'm into my 3rd year (year round burning) and lately I've had a tremendous amount of unburned coals and ashes going thru the nozzle, I checked my...
    Thread by: leatherguy, Dec 14, 2012, 25 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
  11. leatherguy
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    1st real test of battery backup setup

    The blower fan wouldn't run on the non "pure" sine wave, and I had already bought the inverter. I plan on getting a small generator someday but I...
    Post by: leatherguy, Mar 9, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
  12. leatherguy
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    1st real test of battery backup setup

    Thanks, Thats what makes this site so great everybody sharing there experience (good or bad) If it wasn't for this site I wouldn't even have a...
    Post by: leatherguy, Mar 8, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
  13. leatherguy
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    1st real test of battery backup setup

    Just finished a 14 hour test of my Eko 40 battery backup system. I loaded up my boiler at 8:30 last night ( it was running at 184deg ) closed it...
    Thread by: leatherguy, Mar 8, 2011, 18 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
  14. leatherguy
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    Wood thieves????

    Friend of mine did the black powder thing, worked really well, and the fire dept also got in some practice (in a real rural I mean real backwoods...
    Post by: leatherguy, Mar 7, 2011 in forum: The Wood Shed
  15. leatherguy
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    New to this whole wood boiler thing. Need some advice on hookups on wood boiler and some ways of ge

    Will the wood replenish itself? Yes but you have to have a good plan. In Maine the rule of thumb is that 1 acre will grow 1 cord per year. So...
    Post by: leatherguy, Mar 4, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
  16. leatherguy
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    ABS Black Plastic Pipe...

    Try Ebay, or you can double up the runs with smaller pex just figure your x-sectional area's. I was going to run 2 -1" pex instead of 1.25 pex then I...
    Post by: leatherguy, Mar 4, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
  17. leatherguy
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    ABS Black Plastic Pipe...

    Short answer NO. You need O2 barrier pipe, I met a fellow that used black plastic pipe and 2 years later he needed a new boiler.
    Post by: leatherguy, Mar 3, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
  18. leatherguy
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    Atmos install - is this ok for now?

    You should have a pressure gauge. Are you sharing water with your oil boiler, that boiler should have an auto fill/backflow preventer gizmo on it. I...
    Post by: leatherguy, Feb 23, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
  19. leatherguy
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    Commercial / Industrial Gasifiers

    Dexter Maine middle school put in a biomass boiler, quite a machine. The specs on the fuel are Clean Hardwood chips No Bark! So you have to be...
    Post by: leatherguy, Feb 18, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
  20. leatherguy
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    Draft Control, will it save wood?

    Thanks for the imput. Any big difference between Field " R C " damper and Field "B34 CO" style besides the different weighting setup and color.
    Post by: leatherguy, Feb 16, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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