The cooker will satisfactorily burn wood logs, blocks or
peat briquettes, but logs should be perfectly dry in order
to obtain the best cooker performance and minimise the
deposits of creosote. Wood logs may also provide
overnight banking problems and the following hints are
recommended:-
a) Burn dry soft wood in the day time and dry hard
wood overnight if possible.
b) Avoid using ‘green’ wood on overnight banking as
creosote deposits will be increased.
c) Using hard wood in the day time will give prolonged
burning but heating response is slower.
d) Wet kitchen refuse should not be burned.
e) Before refuelling, open the flue chamber damper to its
full extent and fill the firebox up to the bottom of the
firedoor opening, ensuring the secondary air is at fully
open.
f) To obtain the optimum burning rate when burning
wood logs the grate plates should be fitted to the top
of the fire bars in the firebox. Riddling is not required
when burning wood, poking will normally suffice. Take
care not to upset the plates when using the poker.
These plates must be removed when burning solid
mineral fuels.
All Fuels using Wood and Paper
a) Check the flue pipe is free of blockage.
b) Open firebox door.
c) Open ashpit door.
d) De-ash (Fig. 12) and remove dead fuel from
bottomgrate (lift off clinker door above the bottomgrate
(Fig. 14), rake fuel into ashpan replace clinker door).
e) Remove ashpan, empty and replace (Fig. 13).
f) Open flue chamber damper to maximum (Fig. 11).
g) Flue dilution lever fully to ‘left’ (flue chamber door
closed, Fig. 11).
h) Lay a liberal supply of wood and paper on top of the
bottomgrate bars together with a small quantity of
fuel and light.
i) Close and lock the ashpit door with the spinwheel
control open.
j) Close and lock the firedoor.
k) With fire established, open firebox door and fill firebox
with fuel. Check secondary air slide setting (Fig. 10).
Close and lock firebox door. Push flue chamber
damper back to position which has been found to give
desired burning rate.
All fuels Using a Gas Poker
a) Check flue pipe is free of blockage.
b) Open firebox door.
c) Open ashpit door.
d) De-ash (Fig. 12) and remove clinker door (Fig. 14).
Insert flat bayonet type gas poker on top of
bottomgrate bars.
e) Remove ashpan and empty (Fig. 13).
f) Open flue chamber damper to maximum (Fig. 11).
g) Flue dilution lever fully to ‘left’ (flue chamber door
closed, Fig. 11).
h) Lay a 75-100mm 3”-4”) shallow depth of fuel onto the
bottomgrate and light gas poker.
i) Close the ashpit and firebox doors as far as possible-
spinwheel control open.
j) When the fuel is well alight, extinguish and remove
the gas poker, replace the clinker door and ashpan,
close and lock the ashpit door with the spinwheel
control open. close the firedoor.
k) With the fire established open the firebox door and fill
firebox with fuel. Check secondary air slide setting
(Fig. 6). Close and lock the firebox door.
Push the flue chamber damper back to position which
has been found to give best results. Set spinwheel
control to give desired burning rate.
Cooking Only - All Fuels
a) The fire is controlled by using the spinwheel on the
ashpit door to govern the air supply.
b) The adjustable flue chamber damper is for reducing
the chimney draught, and the more it can be closed,
the easier the cooker is to control. The line markings
on the flue chamber enable you to repeat the best
settings to suit your chimney, from No.1 in a closed
position to No.6 fully open. Try a mid-way point first.
c) Control over the direction of the flue gases is
obtained by the setting of the cooker/boiler damper.
FUELLING WITH WOOD OR PEAT
FAMILIARISE YOURSELF WITH THE
COOKER
LIGHTING THE FIRE
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COOKER CONTROL
Fig. 8
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