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Circular radiator

jim sokolovic
jim sokolovic Member Posts: 439
in THE MAIN WALL
With the sections attached at a slight angle, to complete a full circle? Visited an art museum at Yale this weekend, where I saw this from the top of a circular stair case. The view immediately reminded me of looking down from the top of a lighthouse stairwell. The radiator had about 2 dozen sections, and was cranking out heat like a blast furnace (and noisy as all hell, according to the guard there). Maybe this unusual arrangement of the sections is visually interesting and fits the space well, but is not effective for expansion and contraction or condensate flow. Sorry I can't include a picture - anyone ever see something like this?
Also, one modern "artist" included an actual boiler cleaning brush (sticking straight out of the canvas) in his "creation" - I had to laugh at the crowd trying to interprete the message within!

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  • BillW@honeywell
    BillW@honeywell Member Posts: 1,099
    There is one...

    in the waiting room of the former New York Central railroad station in Saranac Lake, NY. A wooden bench is built around it, and it was a very popular place to wait for a train, especially in the winter. The place has been restored by the Adirondack Scenic Railroad, and they operate family train rides during the late spring thru late fall season. Check it out if you're up in the Adirondacks!
  • Dan Foley
    Dan Foley Member Posts: 1,264
    There's...

    also one in the lobby of the Old Post Office building in Washington, DC. The only problem is it isn't attached to anything! It was most likely left in place for architectural reasons when the building was renovated in the early 80's. The boilers are long gone. -DF

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  • Mark J Strawcutter
    Mark J Strawcutter Member Posts: 625
    recent episode

    of either "restore america" or "if walls could talk" on HGTV featured a home in North or South Dakota circ late 1880's with one in the entry hall.

    It was one of the first houses in the area with central heat and folks lined up hundreds deep to get a peek when it was first built.

    Mark
  • Boilerpro_3
    Boilerpro_3 Member Posts: 1,231
    You mean something like this

  • Wardner
    Wardner Member Posts: 20


    I have one in my house. Don't know what year it is. The 14 room farm house was built 1802 and has been in the family since 1866. I would assume that my great uncle or his father had it installed between 1900-1920. The house had scorched air before that. The gravity system coal boiler had 3" pipes (bushed down from 4") on the supply and return. Only one of the fifteen radiators is circuler and it was placed in a corner or the parlor. Its location and configuration may have had something to do with placing it away from the piano. It is located near Lowell, MA.
  • Reinvent
    Reinvent Member Posts: 43
    curved radiators

    If you watch the movie 'Ghost' with Patrick Swayze and Demmi Moore ther are scenes were they are renovating a loft in NY and there are cicular radiators wraped around the support collums. Very tight radius, very cool.
    Someone should start a thead with pics of unusual radiators. Is there such a book?
  • Toearly
    Toearly Member Posts: 24


  • Toearly
    Toearly Member Posts: 24


    Old Forge Adirondack Scenic RR

    Waiting Room Heat

    http://www.334-2151.com/rad1.GIF
    http://www.334-2151.com/rad2.GIF
    http://www.334-2151.com/rad3.GIF
  • Ken_8
    Ken_8 Member Posts: 1,640
    Saw one in

    Montreal. Old section, three blocks from the Notre Dame basilica.

    Also had a self-directed tour of the heating system of that facility with Noel, Vinnie, UK Gary and young James. Forget who else was with us. Got the pictures of the boilers and HX's.

    Neat stuff.

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  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Used to be a few

    in a bank in Binghamton, NY. I remember warming my buns as a kid against them as my mother was making out bank deposits. They built circular marble counters over them to fill out paperwork on. Ahhhh.......I can still feel the warmth!

    Glenn Stanton

    Burnham Hydronics
  • David_5
    David_5 Member Posts: 250
    Henry Ford museum, MI.

    Walking through the Henry Ford museum I felt a radiant heat from circular radiators around columns. I figured they must be pretty hot for me to feel the heat from where I was. When I touched them they were only 90 100 degrees. I think they were hot water.
    This was a really good museum, they saved everything.

    David
  • jim sokolovic
    jim sokolovic Member Posts: 439
    I thought this item would interest a few...

    Thanks to those who provided pictures of similar radiators to help visualize what I saw. I personally found it uncomfortable to be near, even when up a flight of stairs!
  • Don Walsh
    Don Walsh Member Posts: 131
    Link not working

    That link is defective. e.i. "page not found" 404 etc.
    Please list it again! Thanks, Grumpy

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  • Mad Dog
    Mad Dog Member Posts: 2,595
    hey...think we could steal it when no one was lookin'?

    Saranac Lake RR? Never been in there. We alaways drive up to the Huge and largest rugby tourney in the worls in august...been a few years though...the whole town gets taken over by the ruggers.....we're an interesting sort. Hey cheese....I still hate you for not "donating": that circular radiator to me. Mad dog

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  • Jared M
    Jared M Member Posts: 31


    A number of years ago I disconnected about five circular radiators installed around columns in an old electrical sub-station in the middle of Kingston, NY, where I live. The local electric utility sold the building to the hospital next door and agreed to disconnect the radiators in the still active sub-station. The rest of the building used to be the utility's main office in Kingston and the hospital now uses it for meeting rooms and such. They are gorgeous. We didn't remove them from the building, just disconnected the piping and capped the mains feeding that section of the building. As far as I know they are still there.

    JaredM
  • Mike Kraft_2
    Mike Kraft_2 Member Posts: 398
    WOW!

    That there is a strong word.The dog is getting vicous.Someone call the warden.The rad is under roof.I have to find a welder to repair the iron trim for the top.Still undecided whether or not to convert it to water.I just do'nt know.

    cheese
  • tim smith_3
    tim smith_3 Member Posts: 4
    Curved radiators

    I had a chance to get the radiators out of a mansion in Seattle that use to belong to the owners of kenworth/paccar truck co. They were american standard Rococo style hot water radiators. I still kick myself. I could have had them cheap and the were 90 degree curved angle rads. I worked in this house getting ready for Gates's wedding reception in seattle and saw them then. What a missssstake.
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