Stove Maintenance

[mayhem]

It occurs to me that I've never adjusted a fastene on my stove, now into my third season of burning. Its a Morso 3660 and other than the doors it basicalyl jsut has one moving part, the primary air intak lever. Is this somethign that requires adjustment to keep the fully closed setting truly banked down for overnight buring and good secondary burn or should I leave well enough alone and thats that. I feel like I'm nto getting as long a time on a full overnight load as i was two years ago, but that could just as easily be the wood I'm burning or any number of other factors. I think i used to get an easy 7.5 hours and on occasion have gotten a full 9 hours out of a full load, but now I feel like I'm lucky to get 6.5-7 hours out of a full load. Is my air control out of adjustment maybe?

Just a thoguht.

 

[SlyFerret]

Maybe your wood quality is better? Less moisture would lead to a little faster cleaner burn.

-SF

 

[Pagey]

Have you checked your door gasket with the "dollar bill test"? You may be getting some extra air around the door gasket and thus shortening your burn times. I would suspect that before the air adjustment. Of course I may be terribly wrong.

 

[mayhem]

Door gaskets are good, the dollar gets stuck every time. Glad I did it when it wasn't running. Though I didn't check it before this season, it was last season. This could be a possibility. I did the lighter test though and didn't note any drafts around the seams...but the air intake was sucking like an electrolux.

Could just be my imagination too...just thinking a moving part wiht some sort of mechanical linkage on a thing that goes from room temperature to 700 degrees and back might get out of whack.

 

[G-rott]

I know this is an old post but I just resolved a similar issue on my 2110. The channel the damper plate slides in had lightly rusted, it was not closing/sealing well. I reached up in where I could and rubbed the edge with emery paper and even greased it lightly with white grease. Seals up tight again and slides open and closed like a dream. I had gotten stiffer slowly and I didn't realize it was "bad" until I fixed it. What a difference. It's going to be part of my spring shutdown from now on.

 

[begreen]

After cleaning use some graphite powder to lubricate the slide. It'll work better at high temps. You can get it in most hardware stores. It's sold as lock lubricant.