Anthratube boiler on Ebay, Not mine

I think Greg needs a load of pea coal now. If you want maybe we could find a garage or shop with a block and tackle and set your new toy in the bed of the truck and you can haul a load of pea in the trailer. Another long drive back! :sleepy2:

Hey gaw no he is just going to bring a bigger trailer put the boiler on and maybe 6 or 7 tons i think it will be his triple axels this time would you be interested in helping if so pm me ill give more info to you take care talk to you later

coal berner wrote:

Duengeon master wrote:let me know were there dude! :boxing: between all of us we can get it out

Hello D.M. we sure would like your help if GREG gets it so far it will be Matthaus Yanche and myself the unit is in carlisle pa. so from you it would be about 138 miles 2hrs 21 min matthaus will be meeting me at the 901pub off I-81 at the minersville EXIT you know the place we had are meeting there so if you can meet us there I will let you know what day later thank you for you offer to help if you could make it it will be 103miles 2hrs. 3min from you local to the 901pub take care and i will talk to you later THANKS AGAIN

J.C. I can meet everyone in carlisle and skip the meeting. All I request is the minuites. ccasion5: The move will have to be on a sunday in order for me to help. sorry I have to work most sat. Congradulations Greg on your new toy.

Thanks for cheering for me, I sure hope this boiler lives up to it's reputation and hype!! The owner claims to have burnt only 7 tons for a whole year, even running it for the summer for domestic hot water. That's about what I burn in two months in the winter!!

The seller has not contacted me yet, I have to arrange payment, get directions and arrange a time. I know it won't be this weekend, a good chance for next weekend.

I have a tri-axle trailer that I've considered putting sides on and hauling coal in, it is quite long, so I think I could put the boiler up front on the bed, and the coal 'box' behind, over the axles and carry 6+ tons of coal. I need to do some preliminary measuring and engineering this weekend when I get back to Michigan.

Thanks again for all the support and help.
Greg L.

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LsFarm wrote:Thanks for cheering for me, I sure hope this boiler lives up to it's reputation and hype!!

I somehow feel personally responsible for this choice you made, so if it doesn't work out I'll be happy to take the load of scrap off your hands!

You are going to have a lot more free time (and money) this winter Greg, enjoy it.

Congratulations on winning the Boiler Greg, I was hoping somebody on the forum would win it, I was a bit amazed how much the price shot up towards the end of the bidding. Good luck with it.

I too was surprised to see the final price, but I was still a bit below my max bid. I'm pretty sure this boiler is the 260K model which is more desireable for my application. The measurments given by the seller match the 260K boiler.

I will probably get the boiler home within a few weeks, I'll take lots of photos when I'm checking it out. The cut-away drawings on the AA website and the AHS site do not clearly show how everything is set up and how the boiler water flows and the coal heat flows. So I'm looking forward to a little 'informative disection'.

Greg L

I fixed it JC

I think you mean 260m and 260 B.T.U. Greg I know you are excited but we must accurate talk to you later see ya

Yep I did mean 260K, long day yesterday.

GL

Duengeon master wrote:I can meet everyone in carlisle ....

Current plan is 8:30 AM meet in Carlisle... one of us will E-mail you with the address... more to follow... should be about 3/4 ton of fun!

OK, big update! The unit is on the Susquehanna in a little town called Herndon (zip 17830). It is on Riverside Ave. (17th house on the right, address unknown by the owner!). The appointed meeting time is still 8:30 Sunday morning June 24th, Gary the owner is going to meet us.
Should be a fun exercise for those in attendance!

Somebody PLEASE take a lot of pictures. I want to see this all in it's gory detail!

Chris

europachris wrote:Somebody PLEASE take a lot of pictures. I want to see this all in it's gory detail!

Chris

Hey Chris, just fire up the Jetta and take a little road trip! Will post the pics next week, should be quite an interesting sight!

I plan to. There is a lot to compare with an AHS coal gun. The claimed improvements in the Eshland/AHS design are a ceramic heat shield at the combustion blower, pipe thread type domestic hot water coil, different internal water passages to keep heat away from the blower shaft bearings and separate grate motor. All that said the A-A antratube has had many years of reliable service for many, many customers. It will be the first time I've seen one. Worth lifting a few pounds.

Matthaus wrote:
Hey Chris, just fire up the Jetta and take a little road trip! Will post the pics next week, should be quite an interesting sight!

Oh man, I'd love to come along to this coal boiler 'geek fest', but I just can't get away from work right now - too busy getting the '08 model year into production.....

On top of that, I've got my own Keystoker project to finish up and start getting installed down in the basement.

Chris