SAVE THE RADIATORS

DanHolohan

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Dave Stroman

Now you're talkin'. And who is that good lookin' guy in that shirt? Only problem with that XL size is I'm a 2XL guy.

And speaking of radiators, check this one out. This is in a house built in 1920, post 1918 flue epidemic. It is a Rococo 6 tube radiator that is 44 sections long. That is about 11 feet. Keeps that kids play room toasty. Per my calcutations, at 180 degrees that big boy would put out over 37000 Btus.

Dave in Denver

Dave Stroman

Here is the big coal fired boiler that was used to heat that big radiator. Is was converted to gas and you can see the stack of bricks that was used to diffuse the flame. Scary. We did replace the boiler.

Dave in Denver

DanHolohan

I think

that's a 5XL radiator!

Constantin

the front end reminds me of...

... a new york subway car! That unit is huge! How much room did you gain when you removed it from the basement?

My French landlord had enough room in the basement to leave the coal, converted to oil, unit in the basement. Imagine a 6-7foot ornamented cast iron cube. Them Dead Men did not only know how to install incredibly heavy equipment, they made it pretty too!

Today, that house is heated via city gas... two small wall-hung units (type unkown) that are simply tiny in comparison.

Jeff Lawrence_24

That reminds me

It was in college back in the early 80's. The boilers were manufactured in the late 1920's and we had to keep them going. These thins were larger inside than my dorm room. I forget how they were originally fired, but they had been converted to FireEye's that could be switched from oil to gas at a flip of a switch. The burners had to have firebrick lined in the target area or there would be no flame staying in the combustion chamber. There were 3 boilers still on line (out of 4) and we had to break out the melted firebrick and install new brick every 6 to 8 weeks.

The scariest thing that ever happened was when I had 'brick' duty. As the helper, I got the task of climbing into the boiler, handing out the buckets of melted brick and re-setting the brick up. This particular boiler's doors wouldn't stay open without tying the doors to keep them open. After the old brick had been removed and the new brick had been handed in, I asked Ralph for the control fuses out of the FireEye before he left for the next call. He looked at me like I was crazy, but handed them them to me. As I was finishing up the stack, I heard a close by clicking noise. I slowly pushed one of the doors open and saw the other mechanic trying to start the boiler. He looked up and saw me and almost passed out right there. Face pale, jaw dropped open, the whole 9 yards. He went home for the rest of the day.

If I hadn't asked for the control fuses in my pocket, I would have been cooked. (This was before the Lock-out/Tag Out rule)


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Dave Stroman

Here is what the new boilers look like. We stayed with high mass.

Dave in Denver