Female members of this house, watching me turn into a soot covered "coal revivalist" on the floor have mentioned the title, suggesting "safe stoves", i.e calling the &$@# service rep.
I have had the Harmon Insert 2 Accentra at least 2 years. Each time a tech comes, for better or crook, they replace the ignitor, telling me it wasn't seated right. Well, when I go to clean out the under pot area, that thing is as ringy as a S.F trolley....and what's worse, the metal cover with a 1/2 in slit falls out...I have yet to be able to make it stick in a horzontal, aka correct position. I even went over to the store and asked them on their demo, and they both didn't know/care! I despise this Harmon only service, but that's another story, except if they ever put a link on how to clean/replace that little cover inside the cover, i.e ignitor inside, I have yet to see it.
Harmon has one simple dvd 5" on how to clean out, but they never make mention of this piece. I don't even rely on that ignitor as I think it's a a hoax-until they come out with a SELF-CLEANING STOVE, I lose every time I go near it.
What I was doing to date was having that little plate thing kind of shtupped into the place its supposed to go via 1) keeping a finger on that horizontal hole and push-hold it on the firepot exterior which has the matching male shtupper-if u don't know Yiddish, neither do I but I swear in any language at length I don't really know step 2.....but with about 10-15 mins hard labor, I can usually make the plate stay in one place long enough to make that guillotine-like fold over piece on a 360 mount on the plate connect up to some part of that firepot exterior lip.
Boy, if you think that was ugly, you should see the way this ends up looking...it is slanted sliglhtly sideways, where about half the metal rings/slits of the ignitor fins are exposed, the other probably not too much. I have a lot of #6 shutdowns these days...but I can't figure how to keep this plate in place in a straight line....when I DON'T clip it with that rotating clasp thing, it ends up working fine on restart, but even closing the door causes it to fall out inside the burn pot clean out chamber...and that's the end of proper operation.
If anyone could find anything...pics, diagrams, cave drawings, it would be really helpful...disregard if it's spring by the time anyone can find such things. This is undoubtedly the most confounding little mechanical think I have ever found, but I am really stubborn about giving the ol' service Harmon man about $250 just to show up, clean/criticize my lack of talent! Take care-John, Natick MA
I have had the Harmon Insert 2 Accentra at least 2 years. Each time a tech comes, for better or crook, they replace the ignitor, telling me it wasn't seated right. Well, when I go to clean out the under pot area, that thing is as ringy as a S.F trolley....and what's worse, the metal cover with a 1/2 in slit falls out...I have yet to be able to make it stick in a horzontal, aka correct position. I even went over to the store and asked them on their demo, and they both didn't know/care! I despise this Harmon only service, but that's another story, except if they ever put a link on how to clean/replace that little cover inside the cover, i.e ignitor inside, I have yet to see it.
Harmon has one simple dvd 5" on how to clean out, but they never make mention of this piece. I don't even rely on that ignitor as I think it's a a hoax-until they come out with a SELF-CLEANING STOVE, I lose every time I go near it.
What I was doing to date was having that little plate thing kind of shtupped into the place its supposed to go via 1) keeping a finger on that horizontal hole and push-hold it on the firepot exterior which has the matching male shtupper-if u don't know Yiddish, neither do I but I swear in any language at length I don't really know step 2.....but with about 10-15 mins hard labor, I can usually make the plate stay in one place long enough to make that guillotine-like fold over piece on a 360 mount on the plate connect up to some part of that firepot exterior lip.
Boy, if you think that was ugly, you should see the way this ends up looking...it is slanted sliglhtly sideways, where about half the metal rings/slits of the ignitor fins are exposed, the other probably not too much. I have a lot of #6 shutdowns these days...but I can't figure how to keep this plate in place in a straight line....when I DON'T clip it with that rotating clasp thing, it ends up working fine on restart, but even closing the door causes it to fall out inside the burn pot clean out chamber...and that's the end of proper operation.
If anyone could find anything...pics, diagrams, cave drawings, it would be really helpful...disregard if it's spring by the time anyone can find such things. This is undoubtedly the most confounding little mechanical think I have ever found, but I am really stubborn about giving the ol' service Harmon man about $250 just to show up, clean/criticize my lack of talent! Take care-John, Natick MA
