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I too have a Dickinson solid fuel heater and tried wood pellets. It burned so hot that in the dark of my cabin, the 3 inch flue pipe was glowing cherry red. Nope, nope, a thousand times no to wood pellets. That thin stainless sheet metal is simply not made to hold in that kind of heat. Not to mention the tremendous heat absorbed by the cabin roof adjacent to the flue pipe.

Thank you for the demonstration (with multiple reasons) of why not to use wood pellets.

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What's the 4th fuel line? Fill, feed, return, and?

I like this from the get go,

Couldn’t hear you…. You need a mic, next video

I have this same stove in a cargo conversion trailer. Works awesome. 👍

I'm looking to replace my current Eberspacher 4kw diesel heater with a more "ambient" solution - either solid fuel or diesel with a transparent flame door. I'm currently leaning towards the Refleks diesels over solid fuel as I don't believe that solid fuel in such a small heater provides any sort of overnight-long solution in very cold weather. The diesel does.

Impressive! I had an MD7A for years and never came close to hand-starting it. Good trick with the fender too.

Cool. Now how about with a spinnaker? 😉

Thanks for this review, I thought of ordering one in the near future. The price looked so tempting ! Will now go for the Windpilot, which still is way lower priced then an Aries or a Hydrovane. Sadly, those wonderful units have reached prices outside of my capabillities.

You crazy kids! This looks very helpful and very hazardous. I hope y’all got a new starter. 😊

Thanks for this - another one crossed off the list!

I think maybe oiling the crank a little would make the release more likely.

You are experiencing hot back-gassing at 5:07. This is due to the quick gassing of kiln dried pellets. Thegasses are oxygen starved .Try opening the lower damper to allow more oxygen into the stove. You can get more information about hot back-gassing online.

dude grease the crank ffs. .. . .

I think these are too expensive for what it is at $500. But you gotta have heat, especially on a boat.

Seems like a lot of problems. I was looking to get one of these. Good price but looks like I'd get what I pay for. Thanks for the info.

Nicely done!

This is awesome. Thanks so much for making this video.

Nice job, Jeremy! We hope you and yours fair well.

how many pounds will the firebox hold? thinking feeding it every hour or 2 would get real old real fast in an artic climate

2 hours per pound of pellets? is that a safe calculation? how many btu's?

Thank you so very much!

Made me smile. We have Cape Dory 29 hull#343

Nicely done!!

I would try a battery powered drill.

Thank you. Very useful information.

Nice job! Shade tree mechanic extraordinaire!

Wow, good job! Hope you got permission to use the good scissors from Erica for the evidence is on UA-cam! Lol

Score!

Squirt hand sanitizer on the pellets they light just fine

Hand sanitizer makes a great pellet starter. It is just thick enough to stick to the pellets and lights really easy.

Make sure you have smoke detectors, and fire extinguisher , you never know

Yeah! It works , but for safety, you can build a Shute with a mixer add a timer to amount feed material , this way you don’t have fumes coming into your cabin ,ain’t can be operated with 12 volt . The good part timer will give the right amount of material , Now the bottom there is another option to collect ashes , rise up a screen to collect the ambers and ashes . . Good luck . Nice warm heating you can run all night .

Careful with that handle. Many arms broken back in the day of crank automobiles. It should be cut in a way to kick it off the shaft when it starts.

All the corrosion on this windvane seems to have accured due to inadequate material pairing. Things like that shouldn't happen after just 1000 miles . I sailed with a near forty years old Aries about 20.000 miles and it looked and worked like a new one. Lately I bought a Windpilot Pacific Light for my new 27' boat and I'm quite confident that it woun't give me any issues for decades.

While I don't sail or own a boat I have that stove in my truck cap camper and love it. As the Maine'rs would say, it'll cook ya right outta deer and in areas I don't get cell signal it's also the entertainment. I typically burn hardwood when I can but the pellets seam like a better and less messy alternative to the engineered flaky bricks I sometimes have to burn

Great video

Get a funnel with about a 2" diameter and LONG spout. Pour your pellets into the stove through that. Easy and no mess!

Get a stainless steel cutlery holder it has holes in it I use it in my wood stove works really well

Thanks for showing, seems like a lot of effort & danger of skin burns. Propane for me.

Very real...awesome. Good to know this. That handle spinning is a thrill! Good teamwork. Maybe tie a tether to it, a very thin long enough line that would whip around but be long enough to just yank. OR...just stick with the buoy method, haha.

Would a metal water ladle work better for putting the pellets in? Also, I thought there was a tray for full size stoves. Might be able to figure out how to get a tray to put a larger amount of pellets in

Wow, those of us who have done even smaller refits know just how much work has gone into Athena and what a superb result. Congrats.

hello I use a used toilet paper roll and put Vaseline on 1 end or cardboard used toilet paper roll and light the Vaseline //it works great I head with a corn stove for 20 years //

secret to burnin da pelletes ina woodstove is to knot let flames go out. da WOOOSH!!! is way more dramatic in my old potbelly & fills da old airstream wit smoke. get it goin like u did but keep adding wile flame is strong until ya get a big ole pile. ✌🙂

Nice...have you measured the heat at the cabin top where the chimney goes through the fiberglass with a thermometer?

Nice

Nice! Thanks for sharing! Makes me want to go put my Reef Runner Sailing shirt on!