Auger noise

[Dabrowski]

Is it normal to have an occasional grind or "pop" from the auger? Is it possible that just a pellet got stuck wrong and pushed through, or are they designed to pretty much never have the pellets enter the auger unfavorably?

I have a Vermont Casting Reliance stove.

 

[Wood Heat Stoves]

empty hopper, remove auger motor, see how the auger spins- check bushing

 

[teetah222]

I hear this from time to time too. An occasional pop or whine just means there is a long pellet that the auger had to break to process or a bit of sawdust stuck at the edge. As long as it's not constant I don't worry.

 

[Dabrowski]

Turns out the knocking was easily resolved with some vacuuming and WD-40. The problem now is that one of the fans along the bottom side was seized up and now runs with a rattle. At least we did get both fans running. Does this model fan ring a bell?

Howard Cyclone spn3-15-5610

I can't find it online yet.

Thanks for your responses so far.

 

[Dabrowski]

I took some video of taking apart the stove and looking inside. In case anyone might benefit from seeing the inside.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=EA4F188EA76D1E94

 

[imacman]

.....Does this model fan ring a bell?

Howard Cyclone spn3-15-5610

I can't find it online yet......

Our resident motor expert, Jay Takeman should be along shortly to help with this...he's very good at finding replacement motors.

If he doesn't stop by this thread, send him a PM his forum name is "j-takeman"

 

[jtakeman]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Howard-Cyclohm-...652?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53dee835d4

Cyclohm is out of business. These are basically cooling fans for electrical control cabinets. The above is something to look at anyway. watts are higher but. Your cheapest bet is eBay for these. Any 120v 6 inch fan with the same case will do OK.

http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=6+axial+fan&_frs=1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m359

http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/wwg/search.shtml?searchQuery=6+inch&op=search&Ntt=axial|6+inch&sst=subset&N=

 

[Dabrowski]

The ones you liked to were 110 and 115v. Is 120v just the max, or should I try to match it exactly to 120?

 

[Dabrowski]

I'm still getting a knock in my pellet stove. The motor is bouncing and it doesn't look right. It seems to coincide with the ban noise, when it drops. And I can also run a fastener straight through so it definitely looks as though there was a fastener in there at one point.

It's pretty clear what's going on in the video, so tell me if you think it looks bad.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hieRGjEtn10