Maybe others here have done this, I've now had a few times now with good success.
I've gotten a few auger jams for excessive fines buildup in my insert. My hopper is hard to get into.
Take your shop vac and empty it. Put a large trash bag inside then close the vac cover. Take the large 2" size hose and after removing as many pellets as you can manually out of the hopper, use the shop vac to suck out all down to the auger base. Then stick your arm in and feed the vacuum right down to the top of the auger. It cleans all the sawdust out and back sucks all the pellets in the auger so it cleans the whole thing out.
You can toss what's in the shop vac it will be less than a 1/4 of a bag loss. and will be full of sawdust.
I've gotten a few auger jams for excessive fines buildup in my insert. My hopper is hard to get into.
Take your shop vac and empty it. Put a large trash bag inside then close the vac cover. Take the large 2" size hose and after removing as many pellets as you can manually out of the hopper, use the shop vac to suck out all down to the auger base. Then stick your arm in and feed the vacuum right down to the top of the auger. It cleans all the sawdust out and back sucks all the pellets in the auger so it cleans the whole thing out.
You can toss what's in the shop vac it will be less than a 1/4 of a bag loss. and will be full of sawdust.
