Please no more beer or pork :)

ScottMP

and back in the USA.

Got back from Germany Sunday about 1:00 pm and had a wonderfull trip.

I took all sorts of photos and as I get them on the computer I'll post them. My hats off to Buderus for a wonderfull time and great hosts. We not only saw the plant and some really cool new stuff thats in the pipeline, but also some wonderfull parts of the country.

Our host Mario from Buderus made a great point when he said goodbye. He said I hope you understand more about us as a company as country and as a people. There more to the relationship than a boiler company.

During a tour of one of the many castles we saw, our German tour guide told us storys about being a 6 year old boy during the end of the war. He told us many storys about the G.I.'s and their kindness toward he and his family. He said to see the Iraqi children standing on the side of the road getting candy bars from the G.I.'s brought back memorys.

He said " When I go to America and watch T.V. I realise that what is shown on European TV is not the same. They don't show all the good that you people are doing. I just wanted you to know that".

Very Poignent during this anniversary of D-day.

Scott "American Chowda" Milne



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jackchips_2

Welcome back

Scott "Red, White and Blue Chowda" Milne.

Looking forward to more stories and especially the pictures. Those you can not post can be e'mailed. :-))

Jack

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Jack

I am a big believer in not taking pictures of stuff I don't want to be seen. That stuff comes back and bites you in the .... Just ask Tommie Lee and Pam .

Here's some of the new stuff. I believe ME has allready got one of these install, but this is the wall hung unit we should see this Sept.

Cast aluminum HX. I was expecting somthing along the lines of the Ultra but as you can see its not.

Chowda

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ScottMP

Better yet

How about blue flame condensing oil fired.

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ScottMP

Many new Homes in Germany

don't have basements so they make the boilers like an applaince. We laughed and asked if this model had the ice in the door .

Looks like the old heatmaker althought I'd trust this design a little more.

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ScottMP

Just in case

anyone thinks the Germans are "new" to our market.

Heres an H.B.Smith boiler that was cast by Buderus back in ..... ???

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ScottMP

Low loss header

anyone ??

This is at the factory and here are some of the boilers hooked up to this header. Buderus provides heat to the small town next to the factory as a benifit.

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ScottMP

Funny I thought you guys would enjoy this stuff

I took most of these photos for you guys

Scott

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hr

Pork belly and boilers

you're blinding us with science! Lots of things to absorb, I'm doing it in pieces! Making a list, checking it twice, you know.

Thanks for thinking of your fellow "partners in pipe" while you toured.

All I brought back from my Buderus trip (pre digital camera days)was some castle shots and manhole cover pictures with Buderus cast into them
And lots of good memories of course. Thanks

I do remember the morning sauage platters well, however. Mcmuffin be dammed, bring in the real meat



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ScottMP

They must be making more money

We ate like Kings ...

By the way, did you see this ??

Anyone know how to make the pictures smaller with XP ?

I could do it with my old Windows 98 but I am having problems with this.

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ScottMP

And did you see any of this ??

I was thinking of you guys at this time also

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lchmb

umm wow

Holy cow..incredible..nice...They heat the town?? Hard to imagion. ok..I think I have my jaw closed now..awsome pic's. Bet that was a nice trip...

Mike Kraft_2

OK Mr Scott

Since you're sensative ............I actually downloaded all of them the other morning.Late last night I saw the thread was falling and I was to tired to catch it.But the trip must have been great.The lab sems to be quite full of BTU's!Whats the gig on it?The heated town also........did they detail much on control,distribution,DHW and emitters?I'm guessing panel rads.Is DHW recirced from pumping stations?How old is the town?Are the houses painted blue?:)

So did you have any pork tartar?Our local German butcher's son went to das fadderland for school.Raw pork was a must:)Did I see a steamer initialed HB Smith?

answer me damnit Scotty:).....welcome home

cheese

Paul Pollets

Hey Scott!!

Sounds like a great trip. Did they take you drinking at the tavern (formerly the basement bomb shelter) in Wetzler near the town square? I remember closing the tavern with a drinking contest matching drink to drink with the bartender. Joe and Victor W. (JV Mechanical) were witness. Germany is an eyefull, eh? Great Pics!!

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Weezbo

nice Time and money Well Spent!

i thank you for the glimpse of What Could Be:) nice:) the blue flame oil burner talk to us .... elucidate....who do we talk to Now to get one When they Do show?

ScottMP

The joke was

" why can't we have that ".

Everytime we saw something new it got to be the running joke , even up to the green lab coats .

Scott

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ScottMP

I love ya Man !

I knew somebody here liked me

Mike, the H B Smith steamer was cast by Buderus for H B Smith. Pretty cool.

I wish I Had asked more about distrubution of the town heating heating but they where moving us along at that point. I was also suffering from drop jaw syndrome at that point.

Did you see the low loss header ? I would assume that had something to do with it. I don't remember the town being blue, just who long the factory was. I was to get a disk with pictures since they don't let you take pictures of the casting. THAT was cool.

No pork tartar ..... Just plenty of good beer.

Scott

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Paul

Is this the place

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Mike Kraft_2

WHAT THE???!!!???

You mean to tell me you didn't get a green lab coat!?!

cheese

ScottMP

Fall

of 2006

Something about testing standards.

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Constantin

So...

...are you guys fans of the cabaret to the left, the "Erotica" store in the middle, or the bar on the right? Hee Hee... The only town in the US where I ever saw non-novelty adult-only stuff being sold in the open, side-by-side to "regular" stores, was San Fransisco. Then again, I'm not an aficionado, so perhaps I just didn't see them elsewhere. America the prude...

S Ebels

That tuned intake

Is really interesting. Did they give any reasons for doing that?

Robert O'Connor_6

Thats pretty

cool. A pin Style boiler to boot!

Thanks for posting the pics of your trip Scott!

Regards

Robert
ME

Steamhead

Smith-Buderus Steamer

looks like a "Cottage" boiler. In those days it was not uncommon for big American companies to have foreign subsidiaries, or arrangements with companies in foreign countries to make their gear under license. Most of my old catalogs list these subsidiaries and arrangements. That Cottage boiler probably once heated a German cottage.


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Steve

We did'nt have that much time looking at this. we seemed to behind the whole trip

It must have to do with the air gas mixture. It heats the intake air in the cabinet. I was expecting a cast iron block ala` Ultra but this cast fin design looks pretty interesting

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ScottMP

Thats Just what it was

MAN you are good, it is a cottage boiler.

Chowda

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Mad Dog

Good to hear

I always preferred the Germans to the French.....an enemy is an enemy until he becomes a friend.......a friend who is not there for you when you need him to be and betrays you hurts you worse than an ordinary enemy. Mad Dog

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Mark Eatherton1

It has to do with sound...

The factory engineers from Nefit told me it was designed this way to quiten the fan noise...

ME

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Weezbo

another \"Vinatge Thread\"

Fall 2006,... MAYBE *~/;)

Ray_9

shriinking pics

Try "Photo Resizer" - it was a FREE download from -- of course--Download.com