Cornstove problem V2

fuifnummer I don't have a "corn stove" and if I did I would be looking for a cheaper alternative to corn to provide the fuel energy.

Corn is being used as a basic material for making alcohol fuel as well as a food stuff for both man and beast. The price will be prohibitive for use as a fuel.

Look for another fuel for you corn 'stove.'

Stirling Stan: As you could have read in my start up tread this tread is intended to get feedback on the Amaizablaize cornstove. There are a lot of off-topic remarks in my first tread. Please refraim from posting general and off topic remarks

Thank you

Fuif

This weekend it suddenly got very cold so I decided to see if my left over stock of corn wanted to burn. No such luck it forms chuncks and eventually kills itself.

Can anyone confirm that older corn does not burn?

Thanks

Could be either too much or too little moisture content depending on where it was stored and under what conditions.

Age makes a difference only if it is cheese!

Maybe you can convert it to ethyl alcohol and keep warm with the sipirits. Cheers.

The stove is running but not without startup problems. I started the stove with fresh corn last weekend and it did start however it formed chunks and did not burn happy. After a couple of tries I came to the conclusion that the air input is not sufficient to keep it running. Unfortunately I do not have a tool to measure the wind speed so it took me a while to find the problem.

I found welding residue on the same side of the burner box where the air input is. So when I positioned the burner box I notice a wobble. The welding residue lifted the right side of the burner box about 3 mm from the stove. This would cause the air to not only go into the burner box but also in-between the stove and the burner box. I took the box down to the tool shop and grinded it away, positioned the box again and the wobble was gone.

The stove started up wonderfully and burns like a champ now. And as extra benefit it now also burns the left over from last year which was a significant batch.

So lessons learned: The burner box needs to fit real tight to the stove.

PROBLEM: The stove is running but not without startup problems.

REMEDY: The burner box needs to fit real tight to the stove. The stove started up wonderfully and burns like a champ now.

RESOLUTION: So lessons learned: The burner box needs to fit real tight to the stove.

Congratulations! Persistence pay off sooner or later.

Persistence is my middle name (and Amaizablaize knows that)

I feel that you may be able to help us --This is our 3rd winter with our Amaizablaze 4100. The previous 2 years, we have had to open a window in the room w/the Amaizablaze because it was so hot, BUT this year we're getting less heat, and we're having problems keeping it burning. Seems to run approximately an hour, then fire dies out, and the pot has excess corn in it - seems to smother. Never had this problem before, and we're operating the stove the same, and, yes, we have cleaned every possible place we can clean. I would appreciate any information anyone can give us - we're becoming discouraged with burning $3.50 bu corn and getting no results (heat). Thanks for the help.

Guest: Presumably you have read all of the prior posts to this thread and are still having problems.

Any fire requires FUEL, OXYGEN (air), and IGNITION. Check out the stove minus any corn in the fire box for any thing that would block normal air flow or allow excess air. Excess moisture in the corn would create steam and likely cause clumping. Corn kernels should be hard enough to crack with a hammer on an anvil or hard rock.

I do not have a corn stove so am at a bit of a disadvantage to completely analyze the problem.

I there a storage area for the corn from which it is fed into the burning zone? If so that could be a contributing factor.

Hi There, sorry for the late response.

You seem to have the same issues I had with my first stove, which did not even last one season.

Like I indicated in the tread; CHECK THE AIR FLOW. This is very important. So make sure the burner box does not wobble, it needs to sit tight against the back wall and the air holes need to line up. As a good step make sure the burner box is clean ie fully open, all these little holes need to be clean. before you set the burner box in place check if any air comes out of the air hole.

Secondly the fuel controller could be damaged (just like mine) this means that it is very hard to control the speed of the fuel coming into the burner box. I do not know how to check the thing as we send Amaizablaze the many issues we had and they send us a new stove.

I feel that the moisture contents of the corn is not as important as we had no problem burning last years corn. And in PA the summers are very moist.

Hope this helps and send me what you did discover or more details so I can help analysing the issue.

Regards Fuif

This pos Amaizablaze 4100 died again. There is just no end to the misery of these stoves.