Outdoor Wood Furnace Info
All-Purpose OWF Discussions => General Outdoor Furnace Discussion => Topic started by: novaman on February 25, 2015, 04:04:42 PM
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Well My fan in my door on my woodmaster 434 finally died at 12 years old, so I too it off and wow I bet ther was over a gallon of soot and ash/ creasole inside the door took me a hour with scraper and shop vac to clean it out.. never knew it would plug up inside the door!!
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Gramps always said to expect the unexpected.
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You got 12 years out of that fan without any maintenance that's pretty good.
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I clean mine with a toothbrush in May and add some machine oil to the lil motor ,,,,maybe I'll get 24 years...
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I may add that to my list too.
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Couple small, funny shaped, holes, in the fan motor case.
Don't really look like oil holes,,, but yep
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I think my brushes went. I took the plate that the fan housing bolts to off, cleaned it all up nice. reinstalled the new fan assy. I think Im going to make it a every 2 year part of my maintenance, as soon as it warms up i plan to drain and back flush the system too. I think my exchanger is getting plugged. . this cold weather has been rough on the wood. need to keep everything in check for sure!
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I was told to drain mine and replace the water and conditioner every year.
[by guy that sells conditioner]
Anyway, it made sense to me.
I know with auto antifreeze, the reason ya change it every 5 years, is, the inhibitors break down, not the actual antifreeze.
[Grade 11 Autoshop ;D]
Don't know if draining it all the time might lead to a little surface rust, while it IS empty?????????
Don't know about water to air exchanger cleaning, but glad I 86'd the plate xch on the DHW.
My hard water would of wreaked havoc on that, every 2or 3 years.
KK
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