1949 radiant literature

Gordy

I thought someone may enjoy viewing this vintage 1949 literature about radiant heat. It came with my house. They saved everything.Sorry so big I don't know how that happend guess you won't need your cheaters to read this :-)

hot_rod

Wow,what a find!

Interestingly they note "it works well in MOST parts of the country." "If you use well water send a sample to their labs for analysis."

Theirin lies the key to sucessful copper radiant! You need to know what is contacting the outside, and what the properties and chemistry of the fluid on the inside. And hope it never changes.

Wish the plastic and epdm manufactures would have been this forthcoming early on:) Like they are now, right? wink, wink!

I'd love to have a copy of that folder.

hot rod

Tony Conner

There's An Old...

...Audels book - "House Heating Guide - Including Ventilating And Air Conditioning" (1948), and it has a chapter on radiant heating. It happens to specifically mention "Tests, as reported by Chase Brass & Copper Co. indicate these surfaces transfer their heat in about the following proportions..."

These old books roll through ebay periodically. Almost 1,000 pages, with lots of photographs and diagrams. Some of the info is outdated, but huge chunks of it are still very valid. The surprising part isn't how much has changed, it's how little.

ken D

how would you copy those attachments?

> I thought someone may enjoy viewing this vintage

> 1949 literature about radiant heat. It came with

> my house. They saved everything.Sorry so big I

> don't know how that happend guess you won't need

> your cheaters to read this :-)

ken D

copy

How do you copy that from the computer? Same problem on a radiant heating tube with plate attachment on another discussion? Is there a way to make a copy when it is that large? I'm not great with computers?

Mike Kusiak

You can use an image editing program like Photoshop or Corel Photo Paint to resize the image so it can be printed on regular 8 1/2 x 11 paper.

Gordy

Gordy