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Old Coal Fired DHW

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Fred Campbell
Fred Campbell Member Posts: 80
in THE MAIN WALL
I'll be changing out the Kewanee two pass soon and when I rework the DHW this puppy's going home with me. It's still piped in on the water side. There's a 75 gal, 75MBtu residential HWH serving a six flat with the monstrous tempering (used to be storage) tank. The steel boiler got to go, it's a leaker, been nursing it for two years. I have no idea what I'll do with the little DWH but I can't bear to scrap it. Could someone with a cabin convert it to wood? Check out the name plate. I've worked in apt. buildings that were ordered out of the Sears catalog.

TG

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  • Fred Campbell
    Fred Campbell Member Posts: 80
    A real gem

    I'll be changing out the Kewanee two pass soon and when I rework the DHW this puppy's going home with me. It's still piped in on the water side. There's a 75 gal, 75MBtu residential serving a six flat with the monstrous tempering tank.
  • Christian Egli_2
    Christian Egli_2 Member Posts: 812
    Amazing mail order

    That's the cutest thing ever.

    Have you looked it up in an old Sears catalog?
  • frank_25
    frank_25 Member Posts: 202
    I remember them well

    When I broke into the trade with my DAD, these pot-belly stoves were still in use by the coal fired boiler owners. We deposited many of them into the scrap heap after we removed the copper coil. Those were the days when the big-ole round coal boiler was wrapped in chicken wire and that white stuff. We didn't even wet it down when we removed it. But that's another huge thread..Have you thought about using it as a mail box?
  • Fred Campbell
    Fred Campbell Member Posts: 80
    Copper Coil?

    Frankie, are you telling me that thing has a COPPER coil in it? I would much rather see it resurrected as an off the grid water heater than a mailbox. I just don't know anyone off the grid just yet, but I'm looking. The fact the water side is still piped in encourages me.

    Christian, you know Sears sold houses. There's acouple of apt. buildings here in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago that I'm told were Sears catalog. I wonder if they sold and shipped the brick too? When they sold ma house I think all the lumber was precut and you got everything down to the doorknobs and welcome mat.

    TG
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