Finally found a BRANFORD burner!!

Josh_10

Gene you absolutely must post some pics! There are a few burner nerds like myself in here!

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Gene_3

Found a Branford Burner

Some may remember I put out a call for one because our school is located in Branford, Ct. and that is where the Malleable Iron Fittings company was located and produced the Branford Burner, they were that HUGE brick factory down by the train station.

One of my students that graduated 2 weeks ago dropped it off today.

It is pristine, I don't think I have to repaint it, just clean and polish. wow

It is a Model HE-2 S# 4514 { which I think means 1945??}

what is weird is it has a Sundstarnd J pump with a Sundstrand Oil Cut Off Solenoid # 110547, on the top, mounted with 2 allen bolts where you normally get the #'s off the pump, don't remember those?? must be rare.

what a goof

Alan R. Mercurio_3

I'll second that Josh. A fellow burner nerd lol

Alan

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Gene_3

ok

I cleaned it Friday, doesn't look bad for a girl pushing 61. I'll try to post pics asap.

Apparently back then the more a burner weighs the better it performs???

Guy_6

Bigelow Boiler

I had a similar find with a Bigelow Boiler, a real piece of history: I was asked to size a replacement boiler and found what equated to a locomotive wrapped in brick and the A stuff garaged in the basement. 11 Million BTUs of steam.
I will try to get pictures later in the week.

Josh_10

Save the blast doors on that baby! They are worth a small fortune to certain folks in my Steam club. What a find. I saved some Birchfeild doors that I am going to make a wet bar with on the home I'm building this fall..

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Gene_3

wow

I was at a former Mansion in the center of Waterbury once, it is now a funeral home, and in what was the dining room was a weird looking radiator- Burnham, and it had doors in the center section, it was a cabinet with 2 shelves for keeping the food warm!!

If I remember the mansion was the home of Patricia Neal as a child

Steamhead (in transit)

That was called

a "hot-closet" or "dining-room" radiator, depending on who made it. These are quite rare, and worth saving.

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Gene_3

I tried

like **** to get him to sell it to me. My wife's Uncle was laying in the next room, people crying, and me?, I am salivating over a radiator and getting the history of the mansion from the owner...........

that's one thing about this industry..........

YOU JUST CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP!!!

Gene_3

here's the pics

let me know if they com out ok