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ScottMP

Went to a customers house today and they had this allready out on the porch.

Glad we did'nt have to move it.

Scott

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Earthfire

rad

Now T H A T S a heat emmitter

kevin

radiator

I hope they know a chiropractor!!!

ScottMP

btus

I figure with a rough estimate around 16,500 BTU's.

That would do a small house !!!!!

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Alan(CaliforniaRadiant)Forbes

OK, I'm impressed

Must've been at least a 3/4" pipe feeding that baby with probably a 40* temperature drop.

My back hurts just looking at it.

Thanks for the photo, Scott.

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Mike T., Swampeast MO

Was it from...

...a North-facing sleeping (sun) porch with 3 exposed walls?

Whew! US Rad "Capitol" with 215 sq.ft. EDR. 22,575 output @ 170 avg supply; 16,125 @ 150!

I'd imagine 1 1/4" or 1 1/2" tapping if it was a gravity system.

John Felciano

Radiator

I'll see your 42 sections and raise you 10

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John@Reliable

I want to see the boiler

Scott, I did a quick size and got 181 sq. ft. (if rad. is 32")for that bad boy, must be some house!

ScottMP

I fold

That beats a full house

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Steve Levine

Or some oversizing!

Steve Levine

Slant/Fin

keith

another

radiator is acting as a lolly column underneith the porch to hold up that end of the house. The plumber who installed that one must have figured it was the last C.I radiator that he would ever install.

Unknown

steam or hot water?

That union nut looks like a steam trap on a 2 piper might have matched up to it. I say that because of the size; looks too small to be a water return or supply by gravity.

It just doesn't look like a radiator someone would use on a system designed for a circulator, either.

OK, I give up. What was it connected to when the system was new?

ScottMP

Noel

This was next to the stairs going up. There are no rads on the second floor and I believe this was to heat the second floor as they left the doors to the bedrooms open. You know the old yankees, we dont want to be TO comfortable.

I am sizing some new rads for the second floor for the new owners. Thank God they moved this Before we got there.

I see this pretty often ( just not this size ) that there is a huge radiator next to the stairs.

Scott

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Unknown

Was it

water originally, or steam?

Floyd_2

BMF?????

Is that an abbreviation for what I think it is????

Mark J Strawcutter

largest rad in my house

is in the foyer, right next to the stairs. Most of the heat goes up, and the foyer tends to be cold. Made worse of course by the opening and closing of the front door.

ScottMP

Noel

I think water. Its got a fairly (15 yr ) boiler in there, and when I looked at the piping its a cast iron monoflow tee loop.

I see no Steam piping

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Unknown

monoflow

that explains it. It WAS designed for a circulator. That makes it seem all the bigger!

Noel

Steamhead

That was typical in old houses

they put a good-sized rad by the stairs to counteract cold drafts coming down. Many times there were windows in the stairway and we all know how drafty those old windows were. The gravity scorched-air installers tried to do the same thing with large supply and return registers- that didn't work nearly as well.

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