Last season's grinding noise discovered, I think (Englander)

[sydney1963]

Hi All, Last season (around February) my stove started making a noise (in the middle of the night of course) that sounded like someone sharpening an ice skate (that's all I can think of). So, when I did the annual cleaning last month and took off the combustion blower, I found a couple of pieces of loose metal. One looked like a 5 inch needle shape and the other was about the size of a stick of gum (very thin). Haven't heard that noise at all this season after removing the loose pieces. Could it have been some type of loose sauldering rubbing on the combustion blower blades? Mike if you read this please chime in. Thanks

 

[imacman]

Syd, if I were you, I'd take a couple of pics of the pieces with a ruler next to them, and email them to Mike at work ([email protected])....maybe he can tell you where they came from. Might be a problem, might not.

 

[sydney1963]

Syd, if I were you, I'd take a couple of pics of the pieces with a ruler next to them, and email them to Mike at work ([email protected])....maybe he can tell you where they came from. Might be a problem, might not.

I threw them away. Now I'm thinking I should have saved them just for pics. Oops. Anyway, I'm very happy with my stove, noise free.

 

[Arnold]

Hi All, Last season (around February) my stove started making a noise (in the middle of the night of course) that sounded like someone sharpening an ice skate (that's all I can think of). So, when I did the annual cleaning last month and took off the combustion blower, I found a couple of pieces of loose metal. One looked like a 5 inch needle shape and the other was about the size of a stick of gum (very thin). Haven't heard that noise at all this season after removing the loose pieces. Could it have been some type of loose sauldering rubbing on the combustion blower blades? Mike if you read this please chime in. Thanks

Any chance the combustion blower is missing a couple vanes on the fan ? Your pieces sound like sections of aluminum fan blades to me. You may want to remove the blower & inspect the fan for damage.

Tom

 

[sydney1963]

Fan blades look fine. Thanks for the thought though.

 

[stoveguy2esw]

may have been a loose piece of slag from the plasma cutter, usually this stuff is cleaned out during the manufacturing process but if it got "hidden" in the chamber it could have been missed , did the piece look like metal which was kinda melted and solidified again?


if this was the case and the piece is now removed it will not adversely affect the stove by removing t as its not a piece of the stove per se.

 

[MaryKay]

Usually the grinding sound if because you need to shut it down and chip out the carbon in the lower auger tube.

 

[hossthehermit]

Big sigh of relief, I thought the noise was back. Welcome aboard MaryKay, if you'll notice, dates appear on posts.