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MagnuM stove and furnace auger demonstration Part 2
The second auger system that we’ll take a look at is in the MagnuM Countryside and
the MagnuM furnace. Both auger systems are very typical as you can see. But the Countryside
uses an inch and a half diameter auger system, and the MagnuM furnace uses the 2 inch auger
system. But the styling is the same and the motor operates in the same fashion. So what
we’re going to do is talk a little bit about how you would take this system apart should
you get an auger jam and the fuel is tight in there and you cannot get it out. The first
thing that you can do is if you come home and the auger has jammed, is take your finger,
after you’ve unplugged the unit and the unit is shut down, take and spin the propeller
backwards on the auger. And doing this will actually turn all of the mechanisms in the
auger motor backwards which will back up the feed in the auger system. And it will not
damage the motor. If you run into a situation where there’s too much pressure on here
and you’re not able to remove it by simply turning the propeller backwards, then you’re
going to have to take the auger motor out and you’re going to have to take the system
out the front. Let’s go ahead and do that - let’s go ahead and take this apart. What
you’re going to do is you’re going to take your allen wrench and loosen the locking collar and slide the
motor out of the system. So I’ll turn this around and show you again. You’ve got your
auger motor that slides in between these two cogs and then you tighten up your collar here.
Once you’ve taken the motor off, then
you want to take the collar off here. And now the auger flighting would be able to slide
out of the front of the unit. Now before you do that, make sure and empty the corn or wood
pellets out of your hopper, vacuum everything out of the system that you can get vacuumed
out, and then you’re able to move this forward. If the auger is jammed in place and does not
want to simply move out, do not take and put a vice grip or some other form of wrench on
the flighting. You will damage the flighting. So what you want to do if you’re running
into a problem with that, is take the collar and put that back on and just tighten down
on the screw just a little bit and move this back and forth dislodging the fuel. Once that’s
done, you’re able to freely move the auger and move it forward. If the auger is jammed
in so tight that you’re not able to move this freely, then you have two options that
you have to take a look at. One would be to take the collar back off again, and using
a 3/8 diameter punch, you would insert that into the end of the auger and gently tap on
it until the auger starts to come out the front of the appliance. Once the auger starts
coming out the front, you’re able to move it loose and take the auger flighting right
out of the tubing. Now whether this is on the furnace or on the Countryside models,
it’s the same thing. The auger will come out the front like we have it here and you’re
able to dislodge the fuel. Once you have it out, you’re going to want to do an inspection
on the inside tube of here. And typically you’ll shine a light in there and make sure
that there aren’t any nicks or scratches. If you find out that whatever you’ve gotten
caught in here has caused some gauging or some cuts into the inside of the tube, you’re
going to want to go to the local hardware store and pick yourself up a flat wheel. Something
like this, it’s 1 ½” diameter for the Countryside and a 2” diameter for the furnace.
And you would put this in here, hook it onto a drill and hone that out until the inside
is nice and smooth again. If you’re not able to pick up one of these or if you’re
not able to have a drill handy, you could take a piece of emery cloth and wrap it around
something that’s approximately an inch in diameter and work that in and out of the tube
to get that done. Once that’s finished, then you’ll reinsert the auger flighting
back in making sure that it spins very freely and also make sure that you have inspected
all of the flightings on here and if there are any nicks or bends, you would want to
straighten them and polish them off very well to make sure that the fuel can flow through
without any problems. Once the auger system is ready to put back together again, you’re
going to want to slip the collar into place and just barely get it started, and then when
you go to put the motor back on, you’ll want to remember there’s a flat on the auger
motor shaft. And that flat needs to line up with the set screw on the collar and so what
you’ll do is you’ll actually either turn the auger or turn the shaft so that it’s
positioned right where you want it. And then you would slide that in and make sure that
you lock the collar down onto the flat of the shaft. That way when it gets done, you’ve
got the flat on the collar locked down onto the flat of the shaft.