Cleaned it all out... pulled the auger and cleaned that, put it all back together and am awaiting flame now... fingers crossed.
To anyone with this stove... are you using big box pellets or stove shoppe pellets? What is your daily/weekly cleaning procedure, if you don't mind sharing.
Thanks All
Leaf blower...did you?
Our stove HATES crappy pellets...whether they come from a box store, or a stove shop. The fines kill it.
Got 10 bags of Presto-logs tonight,from K-mart, and scooped the Freedoms Pellets out (all we could get last week) the stove is running clean, and HOT, once again, on the Prestos.
With the Freedoms ( that came from a stove shop), the ash pan was full daily, and the only way the stove would run, was leaf blowering it almost daily. It WAS the pellets..rough handling, or they suck, really means nothing at this point in time - we'll mix them for when it gets warmer. They got us through "that" shortage.
Normal cleaning, is dump the ash pan every few days (depending on weather, and stove settings), and leaf blower/ vac out the stove, every half ton.
We do beat the crap out of it, while leaf blowing, it jars the ash, from the turns, in the passageways - and you can see the crap come of the vacs exhaust.
Automotive vacuum hose, adapted to the ash vacuum, stuffed as far into all the nooks and crannies gets a lot too, but the leaf blower gets out what you can't get to with that.