How drop the clinker on a St Croix corn
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Let the clinker block cool for about a hour in ash pan and reach in and pull it out. I can go 2 weeks without shutting down. Just use a natural bristle paint brush to tidy up the inside and brush off the door glass. This is on straight corn. So no creosote type build up just loose ash on the inside of the stove and the clinker block that builds in the bottom of the pot. I have to drop it every 1 1/2 days. before work one day then after work the next typically.
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Mixing pellets with corn basically eliminates clinker formation, at least for me it does. The dude in the video need to invest in a cheap natural bristle paintbrush and use it on his view window. It's nasty. Ibuy a pack of cheapo ones at HF. Called chip brushes. a dozen for 5 bucks.
Yeah I use a Natural bristle brush between shutdowns. But the stove had been running for probably 2 weeks since the last shutdown when I shot the video. St Croix burns the best on 100% corn. That is the nice thing with the St Croix burnpot, no need to shutdown to swap burn pots or clean stir rods or mix corn and pellets in trash cans ect. while burning corn. The hard clinker brick is not a bad thing in St Croix. you push the coal rake in when clinker is getting toward the top and add a few pellets then open the bottom and drop it out. Drop your fire back down into the bottom of the empty burn pot and you are fresh again. Not need to soften the clinker. I just brush glass and tidy up inside of the stove with the brush on the fly and empty ash pan and keep pushing.
Why are you wanting the clinker to be powderous? Are you having problems with it sticking to the pot sides? Are you dropping on the fly like I did in the video? If it is not as easy to drop like I did in the video there are a few things I have learned over the years to make these run like a sewing machine.
I was using the "clinker" as a soil additive so, the ability to breakup from its solid form, was advantageous in mixing into soil
Interesting, but I'm not buying one, mine works fine... I will say your window looks like shitte, time to clean it... Past time actually...
Have to keep mine clean so the cats can watch the fire....