Hello, I just bought a 3 year old Englander PDV 25 for $550. I read reviews and see that they are mixed. So my question to you all is this, Did I do well ? Will it service my 1200 sq.ft. nome? Will it break on me?
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Won't know if you did well until you've run it for a bit. I got one in spring of 2014 for $400 to place on my main floor. It ran about 3 hours (1 hour on 3 different days for testing the seals) and the combustion motor went. The stove put itself into shut down (a good thing) and the auger started spinning backwards - pulling burning pellets back into the shaft 
(no, I wasn't impressed). Sold it on CL at half my cost to a guy on CL who repairs them.
However, many people (if not most) get plenty of use out of them and my experience is probably not the norm.
(no, I wasn't impressed). Sold it on CL at half my cost to a guy on CL who repairs them.However, many people (if not most) get plenty of use out of them and my experience is probably not the norm.
Hello
I worked on many of these stoves. It is an old design but very rugged and puts out a lot of Heat! The parts are easy to get and we recommend you have some spares. Good luck
P.S.
I recommend you pimp your augers! See my pics!
https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads...-burs-pimp-my-auger-pics.102423/#post-1318807
I worked on many of these stoves. It is an old design but very rugged and puts out a lot of Heat! The parts are easy to get and we recommend you have some spares. Good luck
P.S.
I recommend you pimp your augers! See my pics!
https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads...-burs-pimp-my-auger-pics.102423/#post-1318807
What grease did you use on the bushings/bearings. Are the augars easy to remove?. I was a heavy equipment mechanic for many years so this should be easy for me to fix. How often do you treat the augars? Thanks, Lance.Hello
I worked on many of these stoves. It is an old design but very rugged and puts out a lot of Heat! The parts are easy to get and we recommend you have some spares. Good luck
P.S.
I recommend you pimp your augers! See my pics!
https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads...-burs-pimp-my-auger-pics.102423/#post-1318807
Hi Lance
The high temp red grease, and yes the augers are easy to remove just 4 bolts after you loosen the set bolt and remove the auger motor. I spray the augers with "Dry Moly" and grease bearings once every 3-4 years.
See my auger greasing pics!
https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads...-you-apply-the-red-stuff.141830/#post-1911109
Good luck
The heat is murder on the Zerk fittings so if they do not take grease you can replace them or just buy a new bearing.
Remember the augers must turn freely by hand!
The high temp red grease, and yes the augers are easy to remove just 4 bolts after you loosen the set bolt and remove the auger motor. I spray the augers with "Dry Moly" and grease bearings once every 3-4 years.
See my auger greasing pics!
https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads...-you-apply-the-red-stuff.141830/#post-1911109
Good luck
The heat is murder on the Zerk fittings so if they do not take grease you can replace them or just buy a new bearing.
Remember the augers must turn freely by hand!
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Thanks, I was hoping you would say that. I plan on doing a good cleaning and lube on Sunday after I get it home.
I have a Enviro EF2 stove now that is 11 years old and getting tired. I plan on Using that stove in my shop and selling the one I have in there now.
I actually made a bearing for the shops stove out of 3/4" thick phenolic. Works great abd shows no sign of wear two years later.
I actually made a bearing for the shops stove out of 3/4" thick phenolic. Works great abd shows no sign of wear two years later.
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Just picked up the stove and got it home. I vacuumed it all out for now, will do a better cleaning when the humidity breaks here. I do have one question though. Should I hook up an O.A.K.? I did run it for about an hour and found it to be much much quieter then my Enviro EF 2. Lots of heat output. I went to turn it down from the setting of 9 to but it stopped at 3 and then shut down. Any ideas why?
The fan setting will not go below the heat setting to prevent overfiring the stove. Did you get an Error code when it shut down like E1 or E2?
I will let it cool down then try it again. Maybe I did something like hit the off button, but I didnt see a S D in the display.
Hello
I did get a shutdown once with no E codes when the Heat sensor was not connected so you may want to make sure that is connected to the control panel and the bolt at the other end is tight.
You can also check it using diagnostic mode, just download the diagnostic sheet from Englander's web site.
Hey Don, Do these machines come from the factory with grease fitting on them? I can't seen to see any.
The Top auger limits the pellets that go into the bottom auger to help prevent jams. The bottom auger feeds the burnpot.
Thanks.just ran it again and had no issues. I turned it up to 9 on both and ran it for 30 minutes. Then turned it to 5 for ten minutes and then to shut down. Worked great.
Don, do you know if any company makes a 3" vent pipe with a 1" offset? My old stove differs by that much with the through wall thimble. I just had siding put on and can not lower it to meet the new stove.
You can get one or two 3" diam 12" long adjustable vent pipes to make up the difference.
+1 on pimping your augers. my englander jammed constantly when i first got it. I took the augers out, ground down all the burrs and seams from manufacturing and made it nice and smooth. I didnt use any dry moly simply because i didnt know it existed back then. Since i did that i havent had a single jam in many many years. I dont use the best pellets and dont sift fines or look for foreign objects or anything - however i find the occasional strange object in the burn potHello
I worked on many of these stoves. It is an old design but very rugged and puts out a lot of Heat! The parts are easy to get and we recommend you have some spares. Good luck
P.S.
I recommend you pimp your augers! See my pics!
https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads...-burs-pimp-my-auger-pics.102423/#post-1318807
Don, I would like to do this to my PDV25 too. Is it relatively easy to do (I'm not real mechanically inclined...lol)? What brand dry moly did you use (is there a difference between brands)? You say to clean the shaft as well but obviously you can't clean very far as your hands won't go in too far (unless you've got really tiny hands)...how much of the shaft should you clean? Should you clean the front of the lower auger shaft where it empties into the burn pot as well?
Yes, it is easy to clean the auger shafts, but you have to remove the auger motors and then take out the 4 bolts that hold the augers in the stove.
Here is the dry moly I use. It works great and dries fast.
http://www.zoro.com/crc-dry-moly-lu...gclid=CKHG1PangccCFfQatAodm4wBqA&gclsrc=aw.ds
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