Wow is this an old boiler!

Big Ed_3

With a steam chest as large as that , who needs a header . I think a Richardson was the only model that needed a 18" stick of gauge glass.....

Keith_21

Old boiler. . .

Just wanted to share these photos with you of a job we went to take a look at here in Queens, NY. The home is in Kew Gardens, a well kept neighborhood with homes going back to the 1880's. Notice the lack of steam header and Hartford loop, the humongous flue, and 18 square feet of solid asbestos insulation on this thing. It's straight out of the textbook! I thought I'd post it on the board because all the knowledge I possess on this installation came directly from Dan H.

We ended up not doing the job because the asbestos remediation was overwhelming for the homeowner. Whether they got a repair company in to try to get the burner functioning or a hack replacement co. to dump the insulation, I don't know.

Thanks and bye,
Keith

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Unknown

Reminds me,

of an old Gurney I saw a few years back. Really efficient even by todays standards.

Dave

Big Ed

Water Content

Yeah but look at all that water you have to boil....

Unknown

True Ed,

but this was oil fired in a huge mansion, relatively low stack temps with a Riello too. I was "amazed" at Gurney tech for the turn of the last century.

Dave

Steamhead (in transit)

It's pretty easy

to get decent efficiency out of one of those if you baffle the flues properly. The basic design is three-pass, just like the ones being marketed now except this type was big enough to handle coal firing. Of course, it couldn't match the efficiency of a modern three-pass unit.

What type of system was it connected to? Maybe a Richardson 3-in-1 vacuum/Vapor/pressure system?

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