RECOMMENDED SOLID FUELS
Manufactured: Phurnacite Plus, Supacite, Coalite Nuts,
Maxibrite, Phurnacite, Sunbrite Doubles, Extracite,
Blazebrite, Taybrite, Coke.
Natural: Anthracite Large and Small Nuts, Selected
Housecoal (Trebles/Large Nuts and Doubles/Nuts).
WARNING: PETROLEUM COKE MUST NOT BE USED.
Oversize fuel lumps should be broken down to size.
Stones and other foreign bodies should be removed when
fuelling.
Fuels should be stored under cover, particularly
manufactured fuels which must be kept dry. Wet kitchen
refuse should not be burned.
Fuelling with Wood or Peat
The cooker will satisfactorily burn wood logs, blocks or
peat briquettes, but the 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 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 will be slower.
d. Before refuelling, open the flue chamber damper to its
full extent and fill the firebox up to the bottom of the
firedoor opening.
Fig. 7 Familiarise Yourself with the Cooker
LIGHTING THE FIRE
e) Remove ashpan, empty and replace (Fig. 9)
f) Open flue chamber damper to maximum (Fig. 10).
g) Flue dilution lever fully to ‘left’ (flue chamber door
closed, Fig. 10).
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. 11).
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 the flue pipe is free of blockage.
b) Open firebox door.
c) Open ashpit box.
d) De-ash (Fig. 8) dead fuel from bottomgrate, rake fuel
into ashpan. Insert flat bayonet type gas poker on top
of bottomgrate bars.
e) Remove ashpan, and empty (Fig. 9).
f) Open flue chamber damper to maximum (Fig. 10).
g) Flue dilution lever fully ‘left’. (flue chamber door
closed, Fig. 10).
h) Lay a 75-100mm (3ins-4ins) shallow depth of fuel onto
the bottomgrate and light with 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.
Close and lock the firebox door
.
Push the flue chamber damper back to position which
has been found to give best results. Set spinwheel to
give desired burning rate.
NOTE: IF THERE IS DEAD FUEL IN THE GRATE,
DROP THE BOTTOMGRATE TO REMOVE THE FUEL
UNLESS A GAS POKER IS GOING TO BE USED - SEE
UNDER ‘TO DUMP THE GRATE’.
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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. 8) and remove dead fuel from
bottomgrate, rake fuel into ashpan.
