E Classic Deep Cleaning and Modifications Complete

[antos_ketcham]

Spent two hours this morning giving the E-Classic the first real deep clean. I cleaned all the ash and gooey creosote from the firebox, cleaned all the air holes, and cleaned the bypass damper.

I also took the opportunity to implement the two changes recommend from CB. I removed all the firebrick on the walls and I removed the middle grate pipe so now there is only two.

Cleaned the reaction chamber and the HX tubes.

Everything looking good.

Anyone else made the modifications and have and reports on improvements to operation?

Thanks.

Pete

[stumper]

Central Boiler rather then the dealer made those recomendations? 

I ask because I have not had CB proper made any recomendations other then a bad recomendation on winter shut down, to me.

I have not made either of these changes, but have been removing the side wall firebrick after they fall.  I was going to re-install them this summer when I could does so with a cold boiler.  I was going to do so because they were recomended by the Feds. and I thought the boiler would be more durable with them. 

I hope that CB will write a letter to all of us with there recomendations