steam radators

Greg Kern

I have a home I am sizing for a boiler and the radiaton is a type that I have not seen befor. could some one help?

The radiators have a cast iron top and bottom with steel 1" pipes going vertically. The pipes are aprox 26" long and every two make a return bend at the top. The bottom does have cast legs on the bottom and the total unit is aprox 32" tall. They are ether four or two pipes wide and are all dif in length.

Steamhead

Greg, that's a heating museum!

These are "pipe radiators", one of the oldest types of radiation and the predecessor to the Column type. The most common ones were Nason, Bundy, Reed and Crane. You can find ratings for the first three on this page:

http://www.heatinghelp.com/pdfs/92.pdf

(you need at least version 5 of the free Acrobat Reader to view this)

Crane ratings are in the first few pages of Dan's book "E.D.R." which is available on the Books and More page of this site.

Note that the name of the company that made these units may be different from the name of the radiator. For example, the Bundy was made by A.A. Griffing Iron Works, and the Reed was made by the H.B. Smith Co.

PLEASE take pics and post them!

Tom_22

Too bad, no pics

> http://www.heatinghelp.com/pdfs/92.pdf

I'd like to see what they look like. History!