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I just replaced my old Monarch wood ad-on furnace with a used US Stove Co. Hotblast 1300. I never had any problems with the Monarch but it was getting old and the Hotblast seems well put together, larger capacity and much newer. Problem is when I light a fire set the door damper and throtle the stack damper it starts huffing and puffing smoke out through the thermistatic damper hole on the feed door. After fooling with the dampers and the air intake on the ash door I can get it to settle down but then it will puff smoke out the damper in the feed door. Never had this problem with the Monarch or the Quadra fire before that they never let any smoke out. Chimmney is 8X8 clay tile brick outside the house. I did a good cleaning when I changed stoves and cleaned it again last night and got nothing. I have good draft a 6inch pipe (stove has 6" collar) into the chimney with 2 elbows 43" between them and it rises 32inches at a 45 degree angle. I tried going striaght up with a 90 then pitched from a second 90 over to the 90 going into the chimney and it made no difference. Any ideas ???