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Original steam blueprints

keith123
keith123 Member Posts: 103
edited January 2019 in Strictly Steam
Cool stuff
info43Erin Holohan Haskellluketheplumber

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  • STEVEusaPA
    STEVEusaPA Member Posts: 6,505
    Nice! Where did you find it?

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  • JUGHNE
    JUGHNE Member Posts: 11,248
    These are always interesting.
    I have a few but never any spec books as yours.

    Notice that it was spelled out on the boiler drawing for the outlets...."Do Not Bush"...….even back then it was an issue.

    Also there are swing 90's shown......but the supply take offs are between the 2 boiler risers? Things must have been more forgiving with the large steam chest of the boiler.
    Tinman
  • Steamhead
    Steamhead Member Posts: 17,312
    Cool, @keith123 ! Any way you could scan them and send them to @Erin Holohan Haskell so she can put them in the Museum?
    All Steamed Up, Inc.
    Towson, MD, USA
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  • DanHolohan
    DanHolohan Member, Moderator, Administrator Posts: 16,595
    Nice find!
    Retired and loving it.
  • keith123
    keith123 Member Posts: 103
    I will scan all the pages and re-post to this thread. I’ll send them to the Mrs. for the museum as well
  • DanHolohan
    DanHolohan Member, Moderator, Administrator Posts: 16,595
    @keith123 Thanks for that!
    Retired and loving it.
  • Erin Holohan Haskell
    Erin Holohan Haskell Member, Moderator, Administrator Posts: 2,353
    keith123 said:

    I will scan all the pages and re-post to this thread. I’ll send them to the Mrs. for the museum as well

    Thank you!

    President
    HeatingHelp.com

  • gerry gill
    gerry gill Member Posts: 3,078
    did this ever get in the museum?
    gwgillplumbingandheating.com
    Serving Cleveland's eastern suburbs from Cleveland Heights down to Cuyahoga Falls.

  • Tom bates
    Tom bates Member Posts: 29
    Would you be interested in any more old steam / HVAC blueprints? I have 100s of sets from 1910s though the mid 1970s, of schools, offices, factory's, hospitals, and even ships. All pdf scans. I attached a small medical center.
    JUGHNEratio
  • ratio
    ratio Member Posts: 3,774
    It's amazing to compare those to a set of cartoons for a modern small medical building. Even allowing for all the innovation that's occurred in the intervening years, those sheets are …scant…

    Do you perchance have a scan of the specs too?

  • gerry gill
    gerry gill Member Posts: 3,078
    Tom bates said:

    Would you be interested in any more old steam / HVAC blueprints? I have 100s of sets from 1910s though the mid 1970s, of schools, offices, factory's, hospitals, and even ships. All pdf scans. I attached a small medical center.

    the old heating and plumbing plans i like to study. I've leamed alot of knowledge from the old detail drawings
    gwgillplumbingandheating.com
    Serving Cleveland's eastern suburbs from Cleveland Heights down to Cuyahoga Falls.

    ratio
  • Erin Holohan Haskell
    Erin Holohan Haskell Member, Moderator, Administrator Posts: 2,353
    gerry gill said:

    did this ever get in the museum?

    I don't remember receiving these. @keith123 can you please send them? Thanks!

    @Tom bates can you private message me and we'll chat? Thanks!

    President
    HeatingHelp.com

  • Tom bates
    Tom bates Member Posts: 29
    ratio said:

    It's amazing to compare those to a set of cartoons for a modern small medical building. Even allowing for all the innovation that's occurred in the intervening years, those sheets are …scant…

    Do you perchance have a scan of the specs too?

    I do not, have the specs most of the time the specs, do not exist any more and even if they do, i usually only ask for the plans. I do have some other old hospitals. If you would like I could possible send them, file size permitting.
  • ratio
    ratio Member Posts: 3,774
    No real need. I was just wondering how they compared to the two to seven 2" thick books that would make up the specs on a similar, modern job.
  • Tom bates
    Tom bates Member Posts: 29
    Some plans of a 1950s down feed, steam system for a school.
  • Tom bates
    Tom bates Member Posts: 29
    edited June 2019
    1967 drawings of the HVAC of the North tower of the old WTC. I got these though a FOIA request with the port authority.
    ethicalpaul
  • gerry gill
    gerry gill Member Posts: 3,078
    Tom bates said:

    Some plans of a 1950s down feed, steam system for a school.

    Thats a nice one Tom. I love looking over the detail drawings on old plans. I wonder if they ever got any banging the way they have the globe valves and restriction in pipe size going to the unit heaters? Its probably one of those things that works fine when others do it, but if i did it, would bang like hell..thats the way my luck rolls..lol

    Great find on the plan tho. Its a keeper
    gwgillplumbingandheating.com
    Serving Cleveland's eastern suburbs from Cleveland Heights down to Cuyahoga Falls.

  • Tom bates
    Tom bates Member Posts: 29
    Gerry is there any type of system or kind of building you would like to see plans for? Most of my plan sets are for larger buildings, the largest one even has boilers around 40 feet in height just for heating!
  • gerry gill
    gerry gill Member Posts: 3,078
    really any old plans that pertain to steam fascinate me. Im a life long student and will probably die with a book in my hand, so im always trying to wrench out one more detail of knowledge and old drawings are priceless. Of course the drawings don't tell us why they did something, that makes it even more fun cause that leads me off on another tangent..i can get to be like a dog with a bone trying to solve some old puzzle.
    I guess i have an affinity for 1930's drawings. I feel thats when the best steam guys were around.
    gwgillplumbingandheating.com
    Serving Cleveland's eastern suburbs from Cleveland Heights down to Cuyahoga Falls.

  • Tom bates
    Tom bates Member Posts: 29
    a large 1930s school for you gerry
  • Tom bates
    Tom bates Member Posts: 29
    edited June 2019
    and a 1913 school
  • Tom bates
    Tom bates Member Posts: 29
    last one for tonight, a 1931 bank with AC
  • gerry gill
    gerry gill Member Posts: 3,078
    Cool Tom, i like the air washer on the 1913 drawing. I was just reading about those while off on a mental detour the other day.
    gwgillplumbingandheating.com
    Serving Cleveland's eastern suburbs from Cleveland Heights down to Cuyahoga Falls.

    Tom bates
  • Tom bates
    Tom bates Member Posts: 29
    You welcome, if you want more let me know, I would prefer to use google drive to bulk share them it would be better then uploading single files.
  • gerry gill
    gerry gill Member Posts: 3,078
    Sure, would love to see more. i don't know how to drive on giggle, but i'm sure i'd figure it out, ;)
    gwgillplumbingandheating.com
    Serving Cleveland's eastern suburbs from Cleveland Heights down to Cuyahoga Falls.

  • Tom bates
    Tom bates Member Posts: 29
    Do you have a google email address? If you do you already have google drive.

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