Any other geezers used this?

mtfallsmikey

Up to the mid '70's, when our local coal distributor went belly up. When I was young, got the chance to play with some old stokers, all were Iron Fireman. Never used the Bacharach on them though.

mtfallsmikey

Had the old Bacharach out the other day

I had to work on a friend's W/M boiler, was pretty crusty inside..broke out the soot saw, got things cleaned up, fired it off, got the Bacharach out (mine is in a metal case!)and was making some adjustments while my friend was looking at the slide chart (mine has inserts for bituminous and anthricite coal as well!)and noticed the Tempscibe chart recorder advertised on the back. Well, one of Dad's friends who worked for a local wholesaler (was a classic Dead Man) owned one, and he used it occasionaly on problem boilers to record supply / return temps.Has anyone else ever seen or used one? Here is a link to see what it looks like:

http://www.labequip.com/itemcatalog/stkno/12800/Bacharach-Tempscribe-14-7030/Temperature--Circular-Cht-Recorder.html

Bill W@Honeywell

I remember those...

In a previous incarnation I worked for a company that distributed Barcarach instruments. The old recorders were driven by clockwork, battery, electric or wind up and you could have 2 color pens on them, and you had to refill the ink containers from a squeeze bottle. Very messy. I just saw their latest combustion analyzer, about the size of a cordless phone, and remembered the first digital combustion analyzer, which was about 3 feet long, 10 inches wide and weighed a kiloton; real fun to carry up a ladder to the breeching of a really big boiler. Those old "dumbbell" wet kits worked well, too. I also remember the coal conversion charts, but in those days (late 60's early 70's), only utilities were still burning coal along with a few old apartment buildings in the cities.

Hvacman

Heck

I'm (only)44 and I remember using one to quiet a noisy tenant way back when I did maintenance work... Had the locking case so the tenant couldn't "adjust" it! The modern equivalent can chart for days into a unit smaller than a pager and output a spreadsheet or graph... indespensible.