Took a couple of hours today to clean and test fire the new/old (1994) Jamestown. It is a one owner purchase. I don't think it was used much, and was not really cleaned. Openned side panels and found more fuzzies than my computer case after two years. Firebox showed signs of some build up, but not excessive. Small ash pan, and burn chamber meeded some scraping, but not much. My Fein Turbo sucked the dust away. The insulation around the exhaust motor was still white. I plugged it in and turned it on, trapped ash in the veins of the motor spewed a good bit of ash. Tapped here and there and dislodged more. Quite the cloud.
Time to test fire. But all back together, grabbed a handful of the pellets in the hopper, added a little of the starter gel that came with stove and followed the start up proceedures. Within 15 minutes I had a nice burn going. The auger was kicking up a good bit of trash, saw dust and mini-chips. Tweaked the air feed and burned it away. Switched it off, when the burn was good and strong and the stove was heated. It took almost 45 minutes for the circulation blower to shut down. It was so quiet. I was really suprised.
Anyone else have comments about the little stove? It really put out some heat for a 30 minute burn.
Time to test fire. But all back together, grabbed a handful of the pellets in the hopper, added a little of the starter gel that came with stove and followed the start up proceedures. Within 15 minutes I had a nice burn going. The auger was kicking up a good bit of trash, saw dust and mini-chips. Tweaked the air feed and burned it away. Switched it off, when the burn was good and strong and the stove was heated. It took almost 45 minutes for the circulation blower to shut down. It was so quiet. I was really suprised.
Anyone else have comments about the little stove? It really put out some heat for a 30 minute burn.
