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    Harman Vacuum Issue

    Hello All, I have a Harman P61-2 pellet stove and I am having a vacuum issue. The auger wouldn't start until I bypassed the vacuum switch. This has led me to be sure it is a vacuum issue that won't allow my stove to feed. I have cleaned the stove recently, and even did another clean when this...
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    Hello, new member with a question

    Hello, I am a new member with a question that I have to ask as a sanity check. By way of background, many years ago, I used to design field erected (300,000 lb/hr) wood fired steam generators, and we used a lot of refractory cement and what in the day was called fibrefrax rope for gasketing...