Not in Dan's EDR book...

Steve Minnich

or anyone else's either. I pulled a radiator cover today and behind the disconnected cast iron radiator, I found this piped in. I kid you not. I'm keeping it for my trophy room.

Harvey Ramer

It would be interesting to know what the installer's reasoning was.

Steve Minnich

Well I know one of the reasons. The bottom of the cast iron radiator had epoxy in 3 different spots between sections. What I don't understand is that he or she was trying to heat a 400sf room with 2 large windows and 20' of exposed wall with no insulation with some copper pipe.

DanHolohan

Who gets to work in America? Everybody!

Harvey Ramer

Yeah, that's kind of like trying illuminate a parking lot with a candle. I'm guessing either a diy or a knucklehead.

Steve Minnich

Tim was going to cut up the copper and put it in our scrap can and I said no chance, we're keeping that. Forever. Finding that bit of creativity made me smile.

Harvey Ramer

It would make a decent towel drying rack.

It's fun finding stuff like this.

DanHolohan

Stephen, mount it on the front of your truck. It will whistle at 30 mph.

ChrisJ

I'd love a steam heated towel rack in the bathroom. I'll have one too if I ever tear open the downstair's bathroom ceiling to run piping.

Need plated copper pipe though, bare copper is just tacky.

Rich_49

Bare copper is doable if you clear coat it .

ChrisJ

Rich said:

Bare copper is doable if you clear coat it .

There's a clear coat that will withstand steam for years?

Rich_49

Not sure anyone said it was steam . But I would imagine that some cars located in hotter areas than Nj reach temps approaching what a steam rad does . So, maybe .

ChrisJ

Rich said:

Not sure anyone said it was steam . But I would imagine that some cars located in hotter areas than Nj reach temps approaching what a steam rad does . So, maybe .

Not sure anyone said it was steam!?!?
You really don't know me do you Rich. Steam is a given!

Not to mention the one in the picture has a trap on it.

ProblemSolver

Use it as your icon picture.

unclejohn

I once made a evaporator for a large 3 door reach in out of 3/8 copper pipe, no fins. I then made a drain pan with staggered sheet metal so water would drip from one to the other like a slinky going down steps into a pan with a drain. The old coils would get eaten up by the salad dressings in the box. It didn't work well until I added a couple of Acme fans, my first thought was that the cold air would just fall and create enough circulation. The fans did the trick. Trouble was nobody got to see my genius at work, the coil was never again replaced and was operating when the old Roma Restaurant closed.

unclejohn

The reducing coupling right before the trap means there is always about a pint of water in the pipe at all times. Must have sounded like a rain storm all night long.

Fred

unclejohn said:

The reducing coupling right before the trap means there is always about a pint of water in the pipe at all times. Must have sounded like a rain storm all night long.

It almost looks like they designed it that way? Reduced to 1/2" and then back to 3/4". @Stephen Minnich are there any pin holes in the top of those copper runs? Do you think that was someone's ingenious idea for adding more humidity to the house and maybe that room got enough heat from other radiators? It just doesn't make sense???

Rich_49

ChrisJ said:

Rich said:

Not sure anyone said it was steam . But I would imagine that some cars located in hotter areas than Nj reach temps approaching what a steam rad does . So, maybe .

Not sure anyone said it was steam!?!?
You really don't know me do you Rich. Steam is a given!

Not to mention the one in the picture has a trap on it.

Pardon me Chris . certainly did not look too closely at the picture . Steam for sure

Steve Minnich

Just my opinion but anything that looks like an ingenious design here was strictly by accident based on the history of the hydronic work in this church.

Abracadabra

Stephen Minnich said:

Just my opinion but anything that looks like an ingenious design here was strictly by accident based on the history of the hydronic work in this church.

Even monkeys can write a novel once in a million tries right?