How To Convert A "Corn Flame 5000" Stove To Burn Wood Pellets

[grsr3342]

Have an opportunity to get a corn stove cheap, but want to burn pellets. What would I need to do to convert this corn stove to safely burn pellets???

 

[Bioburner]

Depends on which stove make and model. The original made for corn stove, the Countryside, needs little other than tweaking the air or changing the pot.

 

[grsr3342]

Depends on which stove make and model. The original made for corn stove, the Countryside, needs little other than tweaking the air or changing the pot.

OK---thought that may be an issue----the stove is a Corn Flame---Model 5000. The label on the stove says made in Bean Station, Tenn---but I'm pretty sure they're gone. It seems that most of these older stove makers are gone----what's up with that???

 

[Bioburner]

Corn went from under $2 to $8. Some of the designs were a pain to keep clean and running. Auto start now common, and ESP to regulate fuel-air mix. Companies could not or would not advance their stoves. One of the better stoves started something else and had several of the execs go to jail.

 

[grsr3342]

Corn went from under $2 to $8. Some of the designs were a pain to keep clean and running. Auto start now common, and ESP to regulate fuel-air mix. Companies could not or would not advance their stoves. One of the better stoves started something else and had several of the execs go to jail.

Wow---nothing like a little intrigue to keep things interesting. So whaddaya think about converting this corn flame to wood pellets?? Also, what is ESP---Extra Sensory Perception??? haha

 

[Bioburner]

Exhaust sensing probe, does like the O2 sensor on a car. Most of the snowflame stoves in this area where converted to $$ at the scrap yard. I have yet to get into one even though a lot were sold around here. Now that a friend has started a metal recycling operation two mile from me I will maybe have him keep an eye out for one.

 

[grsr3342]

Exhaust sensing probe, does like the O2 sensor on a car. Most of the snowflame stoves in this area where converted to $$ at the scrap yard. I have yet to get into one even though a lot were sold around here. Now that a friend has started a metal recycling operation two mile from me I will maybe have him keep an eye out for one.

I have a source for the stove. I need to know what would be involved in converting it to burn wood pellets, especially what it may cost me to do that conversion.

 

[Bioburner]

Start a thread "snowflame convertable to pellets ?" Maybe someone with first hand experience will chime in.