My Self Built Coal Boiler Now With Pics

I was just gonna ask that!! I haven't seen one of those since I was in Arizona 10 years ago .... and that's about the only place in the USA that they haven't all rotted away to dust by now ...

Looks mint!! With a cap too!! You'd get big bucks for that over here in the states.

As long as the buyer doesn't live in Massachusetts ... because they'd never allow an imported car on their roads without the stupid emissions standards we have here in this state ... and California ... and New York ...

Lol it would pass your exhuast gas emissions easily....its dedicated propane fueled with a 2.2 legacy engine.... powerful and cheap to run.

lol and I wouldn't get big bucks for it...its RHD

Wow, I guess it would! That's impressive.

Yeah I forgot about that whole RHD thing ... that would be a little odd ... but I could get really close to joggers from that side!

it funny here when you drive up beside a vehicle thats left hook (tourists cars and a few US/EURO imports that can't be converted to RHD)....you suddenly realise that there is no driver in the right place=weird

i drove a LHD for a couple of weeks (454 manual corvette...POS!!!!)...it was annoying cos I kept hitting the window winder when I wanted to grab the gear stick

Yeah it's strange the first time you do it backwards. I drove a recycling truck ( about 28' long & 35,000 lbs. empty ) on the right hand side, stand-up position for years. These trucks are equipped with 2 steering wheels, & a switch on the dash to switch control to one side or the other. In the stand up position, the truck was limited to 10 MPH ... unless you got one of the malfunctioning units ... then you could get on the highway at 70 mph. I only did that once. They'd fire you on the spot for that for safety reasons ...

Because of that I'd probably feel right at home in those cars. Would be confusing at first making left or right turns though, I'd imagine.

the hardest part of driving a vehicle that steers from the wrong side for whatever side of the road you drive on is getting used automatically positioning the vehicle so its not hanging out over the centerline after you change lanes or go thru an intersection

Yes - this is very true. I remember when I first started at the company, the guy that was training me was yelling at me that I was ready to hit oncoming traffic head-on! I guess I was way over the center line .... Couldn't tell from where I was standing. But then this is the right side on a left side designed road.

lmao I had a very nice(and hugely amused) cop explane a couple of little tricks to ensure you stay on the correct side of the road....marks on the windscreen help alot

the box the whole thing is in is an old wood burning stove,

And I'll bet it is a Kent. I had one, used it for many years before I replaced it with the Harman.

Lol it is a Kent...you can pick them up here for less than scrap price cos they are such efficient smoke producers

I bought my Kent Sherwood around 1988, used it in the garage before I bought this place and then moved it here. Burned many cords of wood in it. I had to have it welded where the sides meet the firebox bottom panel, the original welds cracked. Also the top panel inside the stove (where the damper plate slides) eventually warped and began to crack. It still performed well, used half the wood that my Fisher insert uses. I eventually gave it away, I don't know if the guy who has it ever used it.

yeah the old Kent wood fire's really do go quite well....and like wood'n coal said they are pretty measly on their wood consumption....they have a reputation a for being a smoke monster here....so much so that a number of towns have banned them outright(along with a number of other older burners)

years ago I converted a Kent Forrester to a burn bituminous/lignite coal by cutting a hole in the bottom of the firebox and fitting a grate,turned the mounting pedestal around and put a door on it with an underfire air adjuster and a big ash pan box inside the pedestal....loading up with freshly dug unseasoned lignite on top of a good btuminous firebed= white out for about 1/4 mile downwind......however it kept me warm for $100 of bit coal and lignite per winter when wood for the same period would have cost around $500

Interesting story on the Kent stove. I've never seen another one here other then mine.

I am missing something here or I need an education

most likely both

We have here a hopper of coal feeding by ?(gravity) into ? ( some bed to burn the fuel ) with air supplied by ? natural draft

Ok

Now what stops the call for heat (hi fire) or regulates the burn in relation to the water temperature ( or air temp of the jacket )

and why doesn't the whole hopper of fuel just burn (smolder at least) like an underground mine fire?

Sting wrote:
Now what stops the call for heat (hi fire) or regulates the burn in relation to the water temperature ( or air temp of the jacket )

and why doesn't the whole hopper of fuel just burn (smolder at least) like an underground mine fire?

simple, the regulator for the pipe damper(not shown in the pics) has yet to be fitted cos it is still in transit from the supplier.

and the hopper isn't finished yet but will be twice the height shown in the pics and will have a sealing lid in the top of the hopper

the draft will be caused by a 12v 23cfm cage blower rigged as a stack ejector above the pipe damper.

this whole project based on the phrase "well I can't see why it wouldn't work" lol