Thelin Parlour - crushing pellets?

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grahamk

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Oct 9, 2008
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Colorado
My parlour stove seem very picky when it comes to running through pellets that have a high dust/sawdust ratio. The quadrfire just eats these pellets up, but the thelin gets sawdust caught in the chute, and pellets start backing up behind it, and in general good things don't happen at that point.

So I started dusting pellets which works better. But I still see a lot of sawdust in the chute and every time I run out of pellets the auger area is just packed with sawdust.

I am starting to become convinced that the pellets are getting crushed into sawdust by the auger. Is this common? Are there ways to fix it?

Thanks!
 
Not real familiar with the Thelin but wondering if bearing or bearing plate is worn... coupling tight?
 
One of my customers said her Thelin works much better with 100% softwood pellets. Did you try them?
 
Mine works great on hardwood or softwood, but it prefers shorter pellets so I stay away from any brand that is mostly longer pellets.
 
I use softwood pellets - they seem to be getting mashed in the auger. I have tried 3 different brands with the same result. Everything seems tight down there. If i don't dust the pellets first it gets so bad that it'll clog the feed tube. :-(
 
I use softwood pellets - they seem to be getting mashed in the auger. I have tried 3 different brands with the same result. Everything seems tight down there. If i don't dust the pellets first it gets so bad that it'll clog the feed tube. :-(

Which is odd. The pellet is compressed through the die and if it be hardwood or softwood should come out the same density. Sounds like the quality of the softwood pellets maybe subpar!? Lots of factors could factor why why are getting mashed, i don't think its your stove but rather the pellet.
 
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