Flush Steam Radiator ID

Steamhead (in transit)

made by Weil-McLain. The one in the pic is 21.25 square feet EDR.

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Jay Zebryk

Flush Steam Radiator ID

Can anybody identify and/or know the EDR of the steam radiator in the attached photo? Dating (I think) from the 50's, it's a flush/recessed type with a single horizontal finned tube in the back. The height is about 23 1/2" from the floor including the clean-out door which is about 4 1/2" tall. Each vertical section is about 19" tall and 9 1/2" wide having 6 vertical bars per section. It's only about 4 inches deep and fits between wall studs. The one in the picture (which has 2 full sections and a partial) is about 27 1/2" wide including the end pieces which are about 1 3/4" each. It is of cast iron construction.

Jay Zebryk

More Flush Radiator Shots

I've 2 more of these:

A big one about 52" long having (5) 6 vertical "column" sections.
A small one about 18" long having (1) 6 vertical "column" sections and (1) partial 3 vertical "column" sections.

Attached is a shot from inside LookingDown and another LookingUp. (Aren't digital cameras amazing?)

Searching for the EDR figures on these two as well.
Any idea when they were made?

Also attached, is the primary source of the dust balls clogging the insides. The big one took me an hour to clean with a crevice tool and a 12AWG wire probe. Any ideas how to easily clean these things?

John_102

a crevice tool and a 12AWG wire probe?

Never known a cat to stand for that sort of treatment!

The other joke riffs off cleaning fish, but as a cat (& dog) person, I just can't do it.

Steamhead (in transit)

The longer one

is 38 square feet, the smaller one 14.5, assuming 23" high and 4" deep.

Doubt if the "neko" is the dust source, unless the dust is actually cat hair.....

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Jay Zebryk

Raydiant Brochure

Following up on the lead Steamhead provided, I contacted Weil-McLain and requested a scan of their Raydiant brochure which was printed around 1951. Although the design is virtually identical, mine don't have any vertical slots which extend from top to bottom as they have. I also don't know if mine are of a single "vectant" or no "vectant" design. I might be trying too hard for a 100% positive ID?

Steamhead (in transit)

They may have

changed the design a bit, but that info should be pretty close.

The number of "vectants" are determined by the depth of the unit. A 4-inch-deep unit like yours would be "single vectant".

The only variation that didn't have a vectant was the wall-hung model.

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