Quadrafire 5700 question

[tonofelephant]

Two questions. Have a 2 year old Quadrafire 5700 stove.

Have recently, one last year and the other last night, had two pieces of the baffleboard break off & fall into firebox. Both were triangular corner pieces no bigger than 3" on long side. Is this a problem???

If the baffleboard is a problem, how involved is it to remove the Manifold tubes & reinstall baffleboard & new ceramic blanket? Is there a step by step guide? Do the Manifold tubes lay in place, screwed in place, or spring-loaded? Approximate time to fix & reinstall assuming moderate handiness & low to moderate threshold on frustration?

Thanks appreciate your insight.

by the way, love my stove.

Elephant

 

[rustynut]

hello E,
Glad to hear you are liking your Quad. Had mine for 3 seasons now and am happy with it.
The tubes have 1 screw each with a keeper and should come right out using an allen wrench.
With the stove cool, I would remove #2 & 3 (#1 being the front and the large holed one) first.
Was told to swap those screws to stainless and use a copper based antisease compound to avoid removal problems
but have not done that as of yet having not had any problems with removal.
With those out removing #1 will allow removal of the stuff above by just a bit of wiggle............
Might be a bit dusty durring removal. Dont think you would have any trouble with those corners
missing though. I've not had that problem with mine breaking.......yet.
That seemed to be the best for me.
Will need to remove this stuff for a good cleaning as well.
Also
My blower just got a bit noisy. Compressed air solved that problem (blew it out).
When I put things back together and turned it back on it was still pretty loud.
Ran for a bit and calmed down.
keeping warm
rn