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Gas Floor Furnace quit working

borecrazy
borecrazy Member Posts: 2
in Gas Heating

Hello-I have an older gas floor heater that quit, I believe it must be faulty control box-only because it is the only working part other than the thermostat. Everything else is sheet metal and cast iron! The control box seems to be made up of several parts put together-each has a letter and number stencil on it. Is there anywhere on your sight I could look those up?

Thank you,

Dave Pedreira (borecrazy@yahoo.com)

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  • Jamie Hall
    Jamie Hall Member Posts: 26,321

    Just post as much information on the thing as you can find — make, model, year. Photos… no need for you to look it up, but odds are pretty good that someone will know just what it is.

    Br. Jamie, osb
    Building superintendent/caretaker, 7200 sq. ft. historic house museum with dependencies in New England
  • mattmia2
    mattmia2 Member Posts: 14,036

    cast iron? is this an old coal floor furnace with a conversion burner? modern floor furnaces usually have steel heat exchangers. pictures will tell us. one down through the grate might help as well as of the outside.

  • borecrazy
    borecrazy Member Posts: 2

    Maybe it is steel, been a long time since I went under the house and dropped the actual burner out of the box! What I was getting at is it is just a large metal oval with holes, not an active part of the heater that could stop working! Unless it cracked or broke, it's just there to channel the gas into flame-

  • HVACNUT
    HVACNUT Member Posts: 6,979

    What control box are you talking about? Is there a spark Igniter to light the pilot?

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