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General Discussion / freedom boilers

« on: July 15, 2010, 08:11:33 PM »

does anyone know who the dealer is for freedom outdoor wood boilers is in the PA/NJ/NY area.  I have emailed the main company to try to order a part of their boiler (shaker grates) for my boiler (nature's comfort)  they wont email me back!!!  i thought i might have better luck ordering through a dealer..  any clues out there???

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Holy Wind!!!

« on: January 25, 2010, 09:33:22 PM »

anybody in the northeast part of the country get pommelled by wind yesterday.. we had gust of 69mph!!!  the reason I bring this up is the excessive draft and reasonably warm temps and my current natural drafting method created the perfect storm for an overfire....early this am when I went to check the fire I noticed that the house was warmer then expected...  I  get out to the boiler and the cap on the water gauge was exploded off (when the water heats up and expands the guage often will pop out the cap and I find them nearby on the ground) there was steam coming out.. I checked the temp 200F.  the coal fire heavily burned out  and not raging to hard in fact...   I turned up heat in a few places to dump heat off and that got the temp down to around 185 .  but I did loose a fair amount of water to boiling off I have a feeling as I had to had alot more water then I ever had.    maybe when wind is predicted in the forcast I should switch back to the forced air draft regulated by the thermostat, eh?   has anyone out there ever damaged or heard of damage to a boiler as a result of overfiring???

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / manometer installation?

« on: January 08, 2010, 09:22:33 PM »

has anyone ever installed a manometer to measure draft on an owb???  i find this, if possible, may be necessary to reproduce the draft I accoplish naturally with the forcred air draft provided.  if anyone has read my "too much draft or too little.." post you will know my plight.  I am committed to buring coal in with the forced draft... I just need to know what conditions I am creating with the natural draft method so  I can recreate it with the forced draft.

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / too much draft?? or not enough??? that is the question.

« on: January 05, 2010, 09:21:23 PM »

For awhile now I have thought that i have too much draft...why.. i dunno.  but tonight as the snow falls with my boiler temp... i asked myself do i have enough draft?   How does one know???  I have a natures comfort owb (ncb250) buring coal with a coulple logs mixed in. for the past couple of weeks i thought i was getting too much draft as others with the same setup limit their draft by lowering the opening on the draft fan.   i have been restricting my draft by placing something over about 1/3 to 1/2 of the fan opening as i cannot lower the door easily.  when I have a good fire going... I open the door to check it out and see hot coals hot wood..very small flames then there is a big flame up of very large blue flames that remain as long as I leave the door open.   If I close it for about 2-3 min and reopen it, same thing, small couple of flames..then the eruption.  this is not after adding coal recently so i dont think it is the early volatiles burning off...i seems like the extra surge of oxygen allows more of the volatiles to burn off and thus create heat!  So i removed my restrictor from the draft looked at the fire about 5 min later and pretty much the same thing..the only way I can keep it roaring is to crack the door open about 1/4 inch... not a good long term plan... How do I solve this age old dilemma, too much draft, or not enough??? more importantly how do i fix it?