G.E. Oil Boiler ???

Kyle Kubs - Benchmark Home Inspections

Does anyone know when General Electric stopped making hot water boilers? Particularly the oil burners... Ran into this today. Of course the data plate offers nothing usefull and prestons useless guide doesn't even have a listing for GE oil boilers... I'm guessing it's mid 70's.

Al Letellier_2

ge boilers

> Does anyone know when General Electric stopped

> making hot water boilers? Particularly the oil

> burners... Ran into this today. Of course the

> data plate offers nothing usefull and prestons

> useless guide doesn't even have a listing for GE

> oil boilers... I'm guessing it's mid 70's.

Al Letellier_2

GE boilers

Not sure of the exact date, but before early 70's. It was a great boiler in its day, but very few are still around.

Bill Nye_2

Have a look

Have a look in Dan's library. I think it was before the '70s. I have only seen two with original GE burner in my life.

http://www.heatinghelp.com/library.cfm#General Electric Oil Equipment - Serviceman's Guide, August 15, 1964

dconnors

G E boilers

A lot of them were installed in southern NY. Down-fire design. Worked on a few of them. Not bad at about 84% eff.

Firedragon_4

Early 1950's!

Rudy

ge

1 would say late 40s. i started in the trade in 1957 and we serviced a bunch of them. information was almost none.they were pretty neat and were a down fired,low pressure burner. some follks installed high pressure gun type burners in them and down fired them.they were very efficient in their original state-80%+ and yes we did have testing equipment way back then"

Rudy

ge

1 would say late 40s. i started in the trade in 1957 and we serviced a bunch of them. information was almost none.they were pretty neat and were a down fired,low pressure burner. some follks installed high pressure gun type burners in them and down fired them.they were very efficient in their original state-80%+ and yes we did have testing equipment way back then"

Kyle Kubs - Benchmark Home Inspections

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Just realized the picture didn't take... Thanks for the replies. It is a nice boiler. First time I have seen the downfire design. It ran great & if I didn't know better I might have thought it was installed in the past few years it was so clean and quiet. The glass thermometer was a dead give away...

J.C.A._3

There MUST be a conversion burner.

Beckett and Carlin made conversion burners for these boilers. You're right, they are quiet!.....but there just aren't any parts left for the original burners.

The G.E. burner was a lesson in electromechanical switchery. As I've said here before, everytime one fired up, some geek from MIT was giggling like a schoolgirl!Chris

Al Corelli - Agix Associates

I have worked on MANY of these. Nice boilers.

They are a horrendous B^%ch to cut up and remove, especially from upper Manhattan brownstones.

Don't ask me how I know.

But it was the first time I used a Tonka Dump truck to haul the Peerless JOT6 down the narrow hallway. My partner was there to witness it.

homecheck

The boiler looks exactly like one I had in a house built in 1939. Ours was steam with a conversion burner. We replaced it in 1986 (47 years old). Not bad for a steel unit. It was leaking at the time of replacement. A Weil McLain was the replacement unit. Oil usage dropped 40 percent.

Kyle Kubs - Benchmark Home Inspections

Yes there was a conversion burner. Of course now I can't remember who made it. I know it wasn't beckett. Don't think it was a Carlin, now I'll have to make a point to look when I go back for the Radon monitor... Would have loved to see the original burner...

I've been looking through the original literature from the library (Thanks Bill, I forgot about that...) I had mentioned to the client about the lack of a Barometric damper and the flu being a little bigger diameter than typical but the combustion testing said the draft was fine. Now I notice in the original literature the box on top of the flu outlet is a flu pressure door. Is that why there is no damper?

eleft_4

Here's one I took out of service Jan 18th '05 from 1946

Ken_8

That's an LA \"E\" form

Both BEckett and Cralin make specially reduced burner tubes for that boilr, or did at one time.

When I return from China I'll look in the shop and see if I still have one.

Better yet, just fix what you have and yes; all the manuals are archived at Oil YTech Talk and Dan's "Library" right here. If I can help, let me know.

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eleft_4

Hey Ken,

> Both BEckett and Cralin make specially reduced

> burner tubes for that boilr, or did at one

> time.

>

> When I return from China I'll look in

> the shop and see if I still have one.

>

> Better

> yet, just fix what you have and yes; all the

> manuals are archived at Oil YTech Talk and Dan's

> "Library" right here. If I can help, let me

> know.

>

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eleft_4

Hey Ken,

> Both BEckett and Cralin make specially reduced

> burner tubes for that boilr, or did at one

> time.

>

> When I return from China I'll look in

> the shop and see if I still have one.

>

> Better

> yet, just fix what you have and yes; all the

> manuals are archived at Oil YTech Talk and Dan's

> "Library" right here. If I can help, let me

> know.

>

> _A

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> 68&Step=30"_To Learn More About This

> Professional, Click Here to Visit Their Ad in

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eleft_4

HeyKen,

I have one fresh out of service, pre owned as the car dealers call it. Just out of warrantee 1946 vintage! Removed Jan. 18, 2005.

al

Unknown

G.E. Lite

These are the ones we see hanging in the kitchen in Levittown . Thousands of them like this , installed in the late 40s . Tiny compared to the floor model . They've all been converted to Beckett burners .

Rudy

ge boiler

the goofy looking door that looks like a damper is called a puff switch. if pressure in the flue was too high it would open the switch. most of them failed and was jumped out.

Ken D.

GE

Most of the LA20's and 30's I have seen were from the 1930's and 40's. I don't think I have ever see any from past the mid 1950's. They were very quiet and efficient with the original low pressure burners. A nice piece of engineering from a by-gone era.