Well I had a critical part failure today.Got home from work ,and the water was down to 110*.the fire was out and I had 3 partial logs in the stove.So i reloaded the stove had the bypass open,and finally got the wood to relight.turned the blower on and everything seemed to be working but the stove wasn't taking off like it should.So i thought the gas chamber was plugged so I raked out the passages.Still no good air flow.I then thought perhaps my air feed pipe in the burn chamber was plugged up with creosote.Cleaned the tube off.Still didn't seem to be getting much air flow.Opened up the back of the stove,and sure enough my damper actuator seems to have died.I manually opened my damper and turned the blower back on.She is running like a champ again.So I have a new damper on order and I hope it is here by saturday.
I did buy this at an idustrial surplus house so I don't know for sure of it's condition.It looked to be new,but who knows.I had about $40 in it so I am not sweating it too much.I will just have to wait untill the new gets here and install it.