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Cool 😎 "HOT" 🔥 heating antiquities recently encountered
Mad Dog_2
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The Richardson "Air Expeller" Long Island Gold Coast. The "pantry" radiator The Historic Hudson Valley. Assorted old Guage. DOLE - Old Hitchcock Farmhouse on Vapor System (My house). First Generation galvanized fittings used on natural gas and domestic water. Late 1800s. Long Island Original Farmhouse
🚜 1864. Also found the earliest asbestos insulation I have come across...this stuff hand hand-made and applied..pretty Johns-Manville mass factory production. Very friable! Hold your breathe, man.....This Farmhouse has 5 basement/cellar crawlspace 5 feet high...every plumbing and heating repair since 1846 rests where is was placed...a P & H graveyard. Cool and spooky too. I came across the old lead service line, 3 water wells and big rat 🐀 traps...Very Old Vapor air vent (brand? Steamhead? Dano?) Upper Hudson Valley Village. This stuff really floats my 🚢 Boat. That most of these things are still in operation is amazing in and of itself. Mad 🐕 Dog1 -
If you are ever going to be up my way, @Mad Dog_2 , give me a ring and drop by...Br. Jamie, osb
Building superintendent/caretaker, 7200 sq. ft. historic house museum with dependencies in New England1 -
@Mad Dog_2 , that vent is a Trane vacuum vent that does not have a float. It was only supposed to be used to vent steam mains, not dry returns (A dimension instead of B dimension).
I don't think the Vapor radiator valve pictured is a Richardson. It's probably Dunham, but I'm not 100% sure.
Where is this place?All Steamed Up, Inc.
Towson, MD, USA
Steam, Vapor & Hot-Water Heating Specialists
Oil & Gas Burner Service
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Thanks Jamie. Would love to. Where u at in New England? Frank. Thats from a different job. The valve. Mad Dog0
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Frankie..The Richardson Air Expeller is from Great Gatsby Land, West Egg Long Island Gold Coast Mansion. The Dunham was a one off in a large apartment complex in Mid Hudson Valley. Mad Dog0
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Northwestern Connecticut. About an hour's drive east from Amenia, NY if you take the shorter route.Mad Dog_2 said:Thanks Jamie. Would love to. Where u at in New England? Frank. Thats from a different job. The valve. Mad Dog
Br. Jamie, osb
Building superintendent/caretaker, 7200 sq. ft. historic house museum with dependencies in New England1 -
I will hit you up when I'm cruising through the area...Ill bring my bow too ...Lotta 🦌 Deeries up there I bet! So your on the Same Lattitude as Columbia County right? Mad Dog0
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