Identification Help

Marshall Brown_2

Just wondering about this radiator in my 1900 built home. It is located in a third floor room that was formally a kitchen. On the one hand it appears home made but the end connectors and supports look to be factory items. Works just fine.

icesailor

I saw those in an old movie theatre. The ends are bought. The piping is all cut and threaded. The ells must be right hand thread. No unions. Or else, one manifold is right hand thread and the other is left hand. No unions.

Original convectors. Someone noticed that the pipes gave off heat. Soneone else realized that if you put a panel in front of it, it squished the air as it went through the space and you could measure how much heat was given off by compare it the temperatures to the flow rate. The beginning of convection heat emitters. Or a poor mans 3rd world radiator.

Or, so I understand from reading about them long ago.

Steamhead

Right, it's called a "pipe coil". These were popular in factory buildings but you sometimes see them in homes.

Marshall Brown_2

Thanks guys!

icesailor

Steamhead said:

Right, it's called a "pipe coil". These were popular in factory buildings but you sometimes see them in homes.

Right you are as usual Steamhead.

I used to go to acoustic concerts at The Narrows Center For The Arts in Fall River, MA on Anawan Street. An old converted Mill Factory building. The concerts were on the top or fourth floor. The wooden steps to get to the floors were 6" wide and worn to almost nothing from the 100+ years of people walking up and down to go to work. The whole room was one big open space with windows opening out onto Mt Hope Bay and Battleship Cove with the USS Massachusetts Battleship moored next to the pier with cars going over the Braga Bridge toward Rhode Island. The whole place was plastered with those coiled radiators. The views were stunning to watch if the sun was going down on a clear night.

Great concerts. Well worth the 2 hour drive from home.

You never see those kind of pipes or hear those kind of musicians in Florida.