I’ve had my Absolute 63 for a month now and it’s been great! Two days ago it developed an extremely loud noise, rotational impact noise. I narrowed it down to the combustion fan. Looking further I found the fins on the combustion fan cracking and hitting Phipps screws that are right underneath the fan. The store I purchased the fan from wants to send me a new fan, ok great. I do feel some play in the fan motor but I don’t feel it’s enough to actually cause the blades to hit the screws. It seems like a horrible idea to have screw heads right below the fan. Seems like the fan is just failing to me. Is this going to be a maintenance item every 1 ton of pellets? Is this a known issue? Should I request a new combustion motor? Just for the record I do burn a 50/50 mix of pellets and corn. Would this have an effect of the fan blade life? Thanks for all and any input!
Absolute 63 combustion fan cracking
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Sorry, follow up question. I’d like to take the fan off and take pics to dl. Is this a left hand thread 10mm nut for the fan? I’d like to not break the fan shaft when attempting to remove the nut.
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We like pics here, the more the better :D As for thread direction I would think it would be left hand but I would wait and let someone else confirm.
As for burning corn, I know they can produce corrosive deposits on the chimney but I wouldn't think they should ever effect the fan blades how you describe.
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