Gentlemen....start your sledge hammers!!!!!

Dave Palmer

wait till the new furnace runs for the first time,it will be like a dust bowl blowing out the grills.

Floyd

Can't wait to get at this puppy!!!

The dust and pieces are sure to fly!!!!
Was called out to light this thing up today....
old coal fired beast converted to gas...
I think it puts more heat up the chimey than in the house!!!!

Don't think it will be too hard of a sale, the Husband AND two sons
are in Bosnia serving our country, till April!!! She needs some dependable heat
for the winter.

I know this isn't water, but I still love to check out this "old stuff"
Sure has served this house well for a long time!!!!!

Floyd

Steamhead

Wow- an old Thatcher \"Thermaster\"

with an add-on blower cabinet. Been a while since I saw one of those!

That big old blower probably runs quite slowly and therefore quietly. Doesn't take much force to move air thru those big ducts! I wonder if the small, high-speed blower in a new furnasty will be too noisy in an old system like that?

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canuckDale

Optimist ;-)

3 fire extinguishers in that pic?

Gives creedance to "scorched air"?

Can only get better. The old extinguishers would look cool as expansion tanks?

Have fun!

canuckDale

OMG!!!

One's a Burnzamatic!

Too much fire in that room!

Post the upgrade!

Floyd

I will put in an.....

American Standard 2 stage 90% with a variable speed ECM fan
It will run on low speed much of the time and will not be a problem.
The best part of that is that the motor only puls about .1 amps when running
on low speed.
Someday they will start using ECM technology for circ. pumps also.
Especially the bigger ones.....infinite variable speed and VERY efficient
electric usage to boot.
There is a ton of technology out there to be developed yet!!!!
Next ten years will be a really fun ride!!!

HANG ON!!!!

Floyd

canuckDale

OMG!!!

One's a Burnzamatic!

Too much fire in that room!

Post the upgrade!

Floyd

I will put in an.....

American Standard 2 stage 90% with a variable speed ECM fan
It will run on low speed much of the time and will not be a problem.
The best part of that is that the motor only puls about .1 amps when running
on low speed.
Someday they will start using ECM technology for circ. pumps also.
Especially the bigger ones.....infinite variable speed and VERY efficient
electric usage to boot.
There is a ton of technology out there to be developed yet!!!!
Next ten years will be a really fun ride!!!

HANG ON!!!!

Floyd

Earthfire

brenzomatic

Mapp gas even ! Works great at warming up thermocouples and igniting pilots. also great for lighting of flooded oil fire boxes to dry them out!!!!!

Mark J Strawcutter

Our first house

had something similar. Doghouse blower with single 24" return up into corner of dining room. Nameplate on blower said "Holland heart-of-the-home"

Had a square tin cover over the firebox/kidney.

removed cover, took one good swing at it with a sledge hammer. Quickly realized it wasn't cast iron - must have been 1/4" boiler plate steel.

Took almost a day before my body quit shaking from the impact :-)

Mark

johnny4

what part of country?

Hi Floyd, have fun. What part of the country are you in, and what's the approx. gas input rate for that behemoth? I expect you can sell the system on reliability and much lower heating costs, eh? From glancing at DOE forecasts, gas prices are gonna stay at the high end of most people's comfort range this winter...

J.C.A.

Daves right !

Buy some cheesecloth or media material to put over the registers when the new fan kicks on for the first time !
I've changed out my fair share of these beasts , but most were converted to oil just after the 2nd WW . Kind of look like two pot bellied stoves with the tops cut off and (usually) asbestos cemented together . Eat your pasta the night before removal. Carbo loading is the only way to keep up the strenth you'll need to haul this puppy out ! Chris.

Steamhead

I have the 1929 Holland engineer's handbook

but it doesn't show anything that says "Heart of the Home"... guess by that time many of those "hearts" had had steam or hot-water transplants!

No I'm not kidding.... I see a lot of houses with radiator heat, and rectangular places in each room where the floor was patched. This is a sure sign of an old gravity scorched-air system that was removed.

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Mark J Strawcutter

the house was built

in '28 or '29 and I'm pretty sure the furnace was original (coal fired gravity scorched air). I believe the gas conversion and blower doghouse were added later.

Perhaps the "heart of the home" slogan post-dates your book?

Mark