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Old 09-07-2014, 09:14 PM   #39
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Bump (for those interested and/or have knowledge about ancient diesel stoves)

There were cruddy carbon chunks left at the bottom of the drip pot from last time, but almost all of it was gone at the end of todays romp. Following C lectric's advice we turned up the heat, and it did clean things out.

On the control valve it starts out with 'Pilot Light', then has settings up to #10, or 'Max'. The stove was only on setting #1 today, and with the damper closed the oven got up to 400 degrees. This brings to mind a couple questions;

1) shouldn't that temperature be achieved at about #5 on the control valve, and

2) isn't this controlled by adjusting for viscosity?
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