Outdoor Corn Boiler Maintenance

Proper maintenance is essential to the healthy operation of an outdoor corn boiler.

This cleaning procedure should take only about 15 minutes. it should be performed at regular intervals, not to exceed 12 days. 

1. Open the top and bottom fire doors.
2. Start with opening the smoke chamber door, and cleaning the ash at the top of the water chamber (you can pull the ash out or you can push it back to the end of the smoke chamber and let the ash fall to the bottom)
3. After cleaning smoke chamber close door and open the back door of the smoke tubes, this is done by turning the lever on the right side to the left (See “A”) then turning the left rod to the left (See “AA”) this will push the door down and allow the ash to go to the bottom of the fire chamber.
4. Take a brush to clean the tubes and push it thru the tubes and go all the way to the back then pull it back and go to another tube until all the tubes have been cleaned.
5. Move the door rod on the left to the right and the rod on the right to the right (this will close the back door to divert the smoke again.
6. Now you are done cleaning the top door of the fire box so you can shut the door.
7. On the bottom fire chamber clean out the ash that has settled on the floor.
8. After cleaning the ash, there are two small round holes in front of the fire pot take the screws out and inspect to see if any ash has settled in the air chamber of the pot. If you have an ash vacuum, vacuum the ash out and put the covers back on.
9. You are done cleaning so take a minute to check the water feeds to the pot to see if there are any drips around the flex pipes.
10. After that inspection go ahead and close the bottom door and the stove should fire up. (do not leave the stove until you see the temperature start climbing up on the controller.)
11. At this time you should open the doors under the hopper and inspect all the mechanical and make sure it is working well.