Let's take this thing outside……

[GMadd]

So one of the guys at AES told me that every summer he takes his magnum baby outside using a handtruck and blows it out with a leaf blower. How exactly do you disconnect the thing? I'm showing my newbie greenness. Do you just pull forward? Or do you have to disconnect pipes somehow? How about reconnecting, is it easy?

 

[unbidden]

So one of the guys at AES told me that every summer he takes his magnum baby outside using a handtruck and blows it out with a leaf blower. How exactly do you disconnect the thing? I'm showing my newbie greenness. Do you just pull forward? Or do you have to disconnect pipes somehow? How about reconnecting, is it easy?

Does he take it outside or simply use the leaf blower trick. Just google "pellet leaf blower trick".

 

[GMadd]

My pipe is way too high for me to get a leaf blower on it. Wish I could.

 

[Bioburner]

He probably disconnects the stove from the pipe at the cleanout tee if using one. Lot of installs with just a straight pipe out the side of the house. If one uses self bonding silicone tape its easy to break the seal and twist the pipe to unlock if you used an antisieze to keep the pipes from corroding together.

 

[DneprDave]

My exhaust goes up through the roof, I send my wife up there to do the leaf blower trick, it's too scary for me!

Dave

 

[SidecarFlip]

I have to confess I use an air compressor on mine but I don't take it outside. I blow out the backend (after I vacuum up the loose stuff and use a small pancake compressor and blow gun to blow the works out. I'll pull the outside cleanout TEE, the CA motor and fan from the housing and blow that out...towards the outside of the house too.

My stove is too darn heavy to muscle outside, down the stairs and across the deck anyways.

 

[GMadd]

Here is a picture of the pipe outside. Don't think I can do the leaf blower trick to suck it out because its so akward.

 

[SidecarFlip]

You need a taller ladder and a paid up insurance policy.

 

[Lake Girl]

Is that an AC unit below?

 

[GMadd]

Is that an AC unit below?

Yes. Previous owner set it up below.

 

[DneprDave]

Aw heck, that one is easy to get to! It's just made for the leaf blower trick.

 

[GMadd]

Aw heck, that one is easy to get to! It's just made for the leaf blower trick.

How stand on the ladder?

 

[DneprDave]

How stand on the ladder?

Yes, Just run a ladder right up there alongside the vent.

Some people make adaptors from the vent to the electric leaf blower suction from plumbing fittings and secure the leaf blower in place.Then you just plug in the leaf blower, stand back and watch the soot and ash come out, you don't even have to stand up there while you do it.

Dave

 

[tonyd]

Leaf blower will never do a job better then taking the stove outside and giving it a once over with compressed air.

 

[Ranger72]

My exhaust goes up through the roof, I send my wife up there to do the leaf blower trick, it's too scary for me!

Dave

Hand over your man-card Dave...

 

[bbfarm]

Yup. Have to use the air compressed on it. The leaf blower works well for exhaust pipe

 

[Polar Bear]

Hand over your man-card Dave...

Or give him a medal...toss up.

 

[DneprDave]

Ahh, It's a flat roof, she's in no danger. I also send her up in the Bosun's chair to change the navigation lights on top the 38' mast on the sailboat. She only weighs 120 lbs, half what I weigh. She couldn't winch me up there any way.
She's good with heights, as long as she doesn't look down.

Dave

 

[Lake Girl]

Yes. Previous owner set it up below.

You may want to take a pass at that while your in the yard - fly ash will drift down from your venting. Not sure if it would bother coils...

 

[Ranger72]

You can clamp a leaf blower on there. Here is mine.

 

[GMadd]

You may want to take a pass at that while your in the yard - fly ash will drift down from your venting. Not sure if it would bother coils...

What do you mean by "take a pass at that?" Thanks.

 

[Lake Girl]

Since fly ash is caustic, blow out any accumulated dust/fly ash from the unit... Not sure what your usual spring routine is.

 

[GMadd]

This is my first spring in the house. I'll work it into my routine. Thanks.

 

[Bioburner]

Since fly ash is caustic, blow out any accumulated dust/fly ash from the unit... Not sure what your usual spring routine is.

Just do it in the dark right before a good rain, just like when burning tires and trash

 

[Lake Girl]

I meant the AC unit http://www.familyhandyman.com/heati...-your-air-conditioner-condenser-unit/view-all