Replaced the PB105s Flame Guide Insulator

[SmokeEater]

After hearing that the nice Indian Summer weather was ending on Saturday, yesterday, I figured it was time to get the pellet boiler ready to run for the season. Had planned to replace the flame guide insulator because I damaged it when I first got the boiler 3 years ago thinking the insulator was an ash build up. That damage caused the heat of burning about 25 tons of pellets to erode a good part of the insulator away. It was so eroded that I could slide it sideways all the way out of its position above the cast flame guide. But the new one ($80 bucks WOW!!) wouldn't slide in. Easy though, I just loosened the 4 1/2" nuts that hold the burner pot enough to slide the flame guide out, put the flame guide insulator in its correct position, slide the flame guide into place and retighten the four nuts. The flame looks real good with the new insulator and let's hope that the owner won't think that it should be scraped out

 

[JDenyer236]

Glad you got it sorted out. Don't you just hate it when you do something like that

 

[SmokeEater]

Glad you got it sorted out. Don't you just hate it when you do something like that

I was wicked mad at myself and wished someone could have been there to kick the fool in the butt. Sometimes experience is the best teacher, but also expensive!!

 

[ScotL]

I scraped mine too the first time I cleaned the stove. I was lucky and happened to notice it was made of fire brick before it got damaged too badly.
I have a cousin who had to replace his. He said his new one was cast iron rather than brick.