I bought a 1,100 SF home that is heated only by an Ashley Model AFS241. I would like a manual for this stove and contacted the company who provided me with a PDF of an old photocopied manual that was missing every other page. Does anyone out there have a manual that they can email me? Also, anyone know what year it was built and whether I should just get rid of it? Thanks!
Trying to Find Instruction Manual for an old Ashley Model AFS241
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I really wasn't expecting a snarky response on my first posting. For your information I take my burning of wood seriously. In this instance it is an old wood stove with multiple levers and a catalytic converter. In order to burn wood and not my house, I was hoping for some information on this wood stove. So, for my second posting, I am asking for serious responses only.
You have officially been Snarked.
I did do a online search for that Ashley model, but couldnt find a users manual. I used to own a different Ashley than the one you had. Durn good stove. I can only guess how your stove operates. I will guess that there is some where to control air into the fire and probably someway to control (damper the smoke going out of the stove. As with any stove, it might take you a little experimenting to find the sweet spot. If your wood is good and dry, I would guess that you would open the air intake all the way as you are getting a fire started and once started, you would reduce the air intake to control burn. I use the damper to slow the burn rate and hold a all nite fire. To keep a all niter burning, I like to put the biggest logs I can on top of a good bed of hot coals and cut the air off to just a crack and shut the damper about halfway off. I have gotten 12 hr burns in my current smoke dragon. If your wood is green, you might have to keep the air more open to get the green wood to burn. The wood will burn faster doing things this way and you will get less heat. Doesnt sound right but it takes a lot of heat to dry that green wood before it will burn, and most of your heat escapes up the flue in the form of steam. As for getting rid of the stove, unless its burnt out, something else wrong with it, or yu just want to upgrade to a more efficient stove, its a decision you have to make yourself. From the pictures I found of it online, I wouldnt mind having it.
Did you ask them if their manual was missing those pages? That actually a common error when using a copy machine. Forget to select double sided scan and waste a lot of paper lol. Don't asked me how I know.
Don't mind him, his thoughts are about as big as his replies.
I called and talked to Customer Service and they said that this was all they had.
I appreciate hearing about the positive experiences you had with a similar stove. I have been working on getting the right burn by adjusting the damper and the air intake. One concern I have is if I cut the oxygen for a long night's burn, that the smoldering might be causing creosote deposits in the chimney. For the most part I have been trying to keep the stove hot enough to not smolder, and in doing so I have to toss logs on a couple of times each night. Hope to find the sweet spot. Thank you for the post.
Snarky... I love new vocabulary works. For forty years, if I had to look up a word, like when reading a novel, I would highlight it in my dictionary. Don't use the dictionary anymore with computers and cell phones.
