You beat me to the first post in the Caneco Envirotec forum, but somebody had to be first.

Looks nice

With my 5x5, I don't have the diverter

Just in luck ... after an incredibly trying shift at work, blew a rupture disk in an evaporator, lost the boiler and thermal oxidizer twice, (that's 100,000lbs of steam/hour @130 psi from this boiler) and had to restart the whole process twice, I came home to find the stove quit, (-15f) and the furnace had been burning $4/gallon oil all day. Oh Joy.

I took out the 5x5 pot and put in the 8x6, but first I drilled half the bottom holes to 5/32". It's working geat

Now I have pictures and dimensions from the 5x5.


with a fire burning



all cooled off and waiting for a photo shoot


width at the top


measurements at the firebox wall


measurements at the underside.


All material is .125" mild steel flat bar
5" total width, 5.375" max depth, 6" total height.
outer sides 2x 5"x6", 1x 5.25"x6"

inner burn pot

2x 4.75" pieces of 4" flat bar
1x 3.75" piece of 3" flat bar (can be a 3" piece of 4" and ground down)

holes on 1/2" grid, smaller ones are 1/8", larger ones are .150".
6 rows on the sides.

The top of the trough should be 1.4-1.5" down from the top or the bottom plate should be no more than 7/8" up from the bottom, depending on how it's built.


For corn, this is excellent. It burns for 24 hours or more at up to 5 on the feed. I haven't tried higher, so I'm not sure.
Clinker hangers are a must, because of the shape of the pot. I bend mine up from 5/16 rod.

I'll try to answer any questions.

Dan VG

Thanks for the compliments..

Sorry to get back to this so late, I haven't gotten any e-mail updates about this topic.

I've had more interest in this burn pot from other members so I will post some details and findings soon. When I get a cad drawing done up I will post it too.

The pot is 8x6, with 6" high sides and back on it. The inner plates are made of 4" and 5" flat bar.
On straight corn, It would burn for 3 days without having to take out a clinker when it was set to 2-3.

Dan VG

The only problem was that it is finnicky as to where the little angle iron hat is in relation to the corn chute. Otherwise it would fill on one side. It also needed 3 hours of babysitting when starting from cold, and a lot of pellets.
There was virtually no fly ash and none on the door with the big pot. This was a big plus to it. There was lots of room for air flow, so velocity was reduced through the pot.

I built another pot, which works much better. When I get the stove down again, I'll take pics and put them up.

It's 5x5x5. The inner plates are 4" flat bar all 1/8" thick mild steel. Built it for $9 in materials. 8 rows of holes on 1/2" spacing on the bottom, 4 rows on the front / back plates. The holes are .1 or .12 I can't remember.

Clinker hanger is a must, as you can't flip the clinker out of the pot. I've forgotten to put it back in and cursed myself for that.

The little bugger can run for 24 hours or more at 6-7 on the feed dial. The stock pot would need to be cleaned every 8-10 hours I found.
I'm going to try another one 6x6x6.

Blockhead,

I tried wheat in my envirotec and wasn't happy with it.
My brother has a PC45 and tried wheat as well. He changed circuit board settings for wheat, tried extra combustion air, different burn pots, and was never satisfied with straight wheat. When he burned a mix of 60/40 or 50/50 wheat/corn, he was pleasantly surprised.

The wheat didn't seem to burn fast enough, and eventually the fire would be pushed out of the firepot by unburnt wheat.

In my envirotec, the clinker was pretty much impossible to remove, but I would like to try with my new burn pot. I also had trouble with over-feeding and smothering the fire. However, when I didn't need much heat from the stove, the wheat didn't work too badly. It's when it got cold out that I had problems.

Tim left some wheat with Harbers last winter for them to try it out in the store. I never heard how that worked out.

DanVan

Hey Dmax06,

That stove looks a lot like my envirotec.

I built a new burn pot for my stove to replace the stock one after I had trouble with clinker sticking in mine. I also borrowed Tallcorn's idea of the metal rod in the firebox. The 1/4" diameter rods from last year didn't last long, so now I'm using 5/16" rod.
It's just mild steel, and the clinker just comes right out.



This shows the big boy pot next to the original. The insides of the original pot were cracking and warped, so the clinker wouldn't flip out nicely.
With the big pot, I only take clinker out every other day even on #5 or higher.




DanVan