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[Jason]

What do you guys usually do to summerize your setups?  I usually just shut the power off and throw a bucket over the stack but I have grander plans for this summer.  Of course, it's memorial day weekend and we still have oats and corn to plant and we haven't made a bale of hay yet, but I can dream...

I think I need grates.  Mine are warping a little.  They're still working fine-I just would rather change them now when the furnace is cold and the house is warm than in the winter when just the opposite is the case.  I want to find some type of rain cap and I might replace the gasket rope around the doors and the gasket on the door for the blower fan.  But really that's about it.  Oh, and I need a new baffle for under the stack but I'll probably make that myself.  It's just a small piece of stainless bent up on both ends.

[PhinPhan]

To summerize my woodmaster 4400

• Cleaned out all the ashes
• Burned a quick cardboard fire
• With all the creosote hot I scraped off as much as I could
• Shop-Vac'd out all the loose and remaing ash and cresote
• Rubbed in some used motor oil in all the places I could get to in the firebox
• Drained and re-filled, added water treatment
• Sealed the chimney, with the original cap

Took a couple hours to complete.

[Jason]

That's a good idea with the motor oil.  I'll have to try that.  I need to de-creosote my firebox/stack, too.  I just looked in the stack the other day and it's pretty bad what with all the pine I burn.  Lots o scraping to be done.

[charlie]

For what it's worth. I read somewhere's that you should leave the circulator on, otherwise corrision can take place in tight corner area's of the stove. Some chemical reaction takes place. If you have a three speed pump, you could probaly just leave it on low. That's like 41 watts.