Burnham Steamer - DF

Dan Foley

These convectors were welded together by the owner's grandfather when the boiler was originally installed. I have never seen anything like these. -DF

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Dan Foley

Burnham

We have been working on this one for the last couple of days. The house is located in Thurmont, MD (near Gettysburg, PA). It was built in 1861 and has been in the same family ever since. The present owner's grandfather installed this one pipe steam system in the 1940's. We replaced the Kewanee steel boiler with a Burnham V8. -DF

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Dan Foley

After

We started it up this afternoon. That's Steve "Black Flag" Thomas posing with the finished job. Of course, he showed up AFTER we got the old Kewanee boiler out in one piece. It weighed close to 600 lbs. and flattened the wheels of our hand cart. -DF

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Steamhead

Nice Job, as usual

And I can see how those convectors would work... The steam rises to the top, fills the fin-tube sections as far as the vent, and the lower pipe runs the condensate back to the steam pipe connection. The Dead Man who built them knew his stuff.

I once saw a diagram of a similar hookup using an ordinary radiator. As soon as I find it I'll post it here.

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Unknown

Excellent work Dan

How many section Burnham was it ? I know connecting the 2nd header tapping was not required , but you went that extra mile to make sure they get good , dry steam . Is that a full size ball valve to clean the returns out ? And what type of oil line is connected from the filter to the burner ? I also pipe the relief in nipples and ells and a copper adapter . It makes pulling the relief easy to add cleaner if needed . Its always the little touches that make your work stand out . One thing we've been doing is installing the boiler pressure gauge after the pigtail on a 1/4 tee with the pressuretrol . I went back to too many Peerless steamers I installed and almost every one of those gauges failed within a year when I had them straight into the boiler . Great looking steamer Dan .

jerryb

BBBiGGG KW

How did youss guys get the baby tank out???

jerryb

welds

Looks like they were gas welded

Dan Foley

KW

Hi Jerry,

A couple busted knuckles and two flat tires on the hand truck and we got it out. Luckily there were no steps to contend with. We had four guys on it but it was still a bear! -DF

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Flag

V-84

Hey Ron, Flag here. The boiler was a V-84 (4 section), and that's a 3/4 ball valve to clean out the returns. The oil lines you see are Tiger Loop flex hoses, so we can swing the door open for service. Thanks for the tip on the pressure gauge.

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