Anyone using the new style combustor?

[bmur]

I just pulled off the cover off my 1 year old dutchwest to find a degraded combustor, Is anyone using the new style from
www.stovecombustors.com My brother has one and says it works good, Looking for more feedback.

I know mine is warranty-able, just always looking for something better.

 

[elkimmeg]

Mine should arive any day in the mail.
I will followup post my oppinions
If mine were one year old I would be contacting the retailer and manufacture and get a replacement

 

[Corie]

We burned a stovecombustor.com cat for about a month and half in our Dutchwest this year before switching to coal. Worked flawlessly, lights off at a much lower temperature than the stock cat. Had no problem with creosote plugging up the cat like someone else had said. And even my father, who is a pretty novice woodburner had no problem getting the cat to stay lit.

I highly recommend them, you'll be glad you try one. Also, you'll notice very little air is required to keep the cat lit (since I know you have the cat combustor air control damper on your stove)

For the price, you really can't beat them.


Shoot, stovecombustors should be paying me

 

[DavidV]

This is my second season with the stovecombustors cats. To be fair, the honeycomb style cats I used before came witht the stove wich was manufactured in 1989 I believe. Appalachian 32BWXL insert.I bought it 3 seasons back. I cleaned the cats halfway thru the season last year because they got plugged. I cleaned them just after the season started this year and since then, with the poroperly seasoned hardwood, I have had fantastic performance. I close the damper bypass at 350-400 and get cat fire-off. let the stove burn out and pull the damper out, the rod is clean and has a whitish residue (it tends to be sootyblack if I havn't gotten the stove high enough...which was common last season. ) I am very pleased with them. After 2 cleanings using the whiteviniger method I have seen no substrate degredation. the price is definately right and I am getting tremendous burns from my stove. Once I add a full liner I expect that it will be even better. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

 

[DavidV]

I also forgot to mention the exhaust from the top of my chimney. Nice clear waves of heat coming out. I have smoke when reloading or starting from a cold stove, but once I engage that cat it's amazingly clear.
Elk I'm waiting for your apprasal of these cats.