I have an Advantage II-T. It works great but regardless, cleaned or dirty, it piles up ashes all around the burn pot. Obviously that's where the ashes go and I just clean them regularly. However, I was just at a persons home who had one that looked exactly like mine but when I opened the front door, I saw slots all the way around the sides and front of the burn pot. This allowed all those ashes fall DOWN into the ash pan. Can I replace my fire pot base plate with the HOLY one or cut clean holes in mine to allow the ashes to fall through the plate and down to the ash pan???
Whitfiels Advantage II-T cut holes around burn pot???
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MountainSean
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It is never a good idea to modify your stove. The ash building up around the outside of your burn grate doesn't harm anything and cutting holes through the base plate would also let combustion air bypass the fire where it is needed most. I wouldn't recommend doing it.
Ranger72
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Bad idea, combustion air needs to go through the burn pot, not around it. The stove you saw was probably an older version that had the older style burn pot. (Like mine). On that model, the burn pot is ducted directly to the air plenum.
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You want a lazy flame, go drill some holes, maybe you could go back to the old style, instead of people converting to the newer burnpot
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I agree 100%
The combustion air flows in from the rear of the stove via tube that terminates at the rear edge of the ash pan.
The air is then "sucked" up through the burn grate/pot to feed air to the fire.
Cutting any holes in the deck will negate the draft through the grate.
The ash pan on these stoves is only there to catch the limited amount of ash and the occasional un-burned or partially burned pellet.
When cleaning, the grate is removed and the ashes are brushed into the pan for easy removal.
The design was never meant to catch all or even most of the ashes.
The lovely pix shown is exactly how the big Whit is supposed to function.
Don't cut any holes.
Snowy
The combustion air flows in from the rear of the stove via tube that terminates at the rear edge of the ash pan.
The air is then "sucked" up through the burn grate/pot to feed air to the fire.
Cutting any holes in the deck will negate the draft through the grate.
The ash pan on these stoves is only there to catch the limited amount of ash and the occasional un-burned or partially burned pellet.
When cleaning, the grate is removed and the ashes are brushed into the pan for easy removal.
The design was never meant to catch all or even most of the ashes.
The lovely pix shown is exactly how the big Whit is supposed to function.
Don't cut any holes.
Snowy
Ranger72
Minister of Fire
Yesssss
The early models had a box arrangement around the pot to channel the air flow up through the grate, and then allowed the ashes to drop into the ash pan.
Burning shells, we get about 3 times the ash as pellets produce, and have seen the ashes piled up, waaaaaaaaay up the sides if we were in a cold snap where I did not want to shut the stove off.
The early models had a box arrangement around the pot to channel the air flow up through the grate, and then allowed the ashes to drop into the ash pan.
Burning shells, we get about 3 times the ash as pellets produce, and have seen the ashes piled up, waaaaaaaaay up the sides if we were in a cold snap where I did not want to shut the stove off.
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