> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrew Dyke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Hi All, >> >> My Morso Squirrel has started to bite back. The vent at the top of the >> door >> refuses to screw all the way back in, meaning I am unable to shut it and >> just use the bottom vent to control the air flow to the fire. Removing >> the >> windy bit reveals a screw which appears to have a nut on the other end. >> My >> guess is that this has somehow worked it's way forward. Apart from >> removing >> the 'air distribution unit' above the glass on the inside of the door, I >> can't see how to get at the nut. I remember recentish discussions on the >> glass removal nuts and how difficult it was. Any ideas? >> > From: "Iain Street" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > IIRC, the vent has a bolt which passes through a thread on the door and > into the vent. It sounds as if the bolt is seized and the vent has become > unscrewed from the bolt. To get at the bolt head means, as you have worked > out, getting the internal casting off. This is secured by the top glass > retaining screws, which tend to get well stuck, and may need heat and > other > means of persuasion to get them out. (Probably followed by drilling and > tapping to fit new ones :-( ) > > You might be able to get the vent to close by applying WD40 to the > bolt,with the vent off, and screwing the vent back on hard. With a bit of > leverage on the vent, this should shift the bolt in a bit. However, the > bolt > will remain partially seized, and when the vent is unscrewed, it will most > probably come off the bolt, rather than the bolt moving in the door as > it's > supposed to. For the complete cure, the inner casting has to come off, the > bolt freed off in the door and the vent replaced and tightened with a > spanner or socket on the bolt head and the vent held with a lever of some > sort beween the operating lugs. > > Hope that makes sense,
Makes perfect sense, unfortunately! Many thanks Ian. Regards, Andrew Web Site www.andrewdyke.co.uk Web Site www.mayorofevesham.co.uk
