Pictures of Your Boiler
- jridings
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- Joined: Tue. Aug. 19, 2014 10:27 pm
- Location: Mount Carmel, PA
- Stoker Coal Boiler: keystoker k-4 dual fuel
- Coal Size/Type: buckwheat
Hi im new to coal this year, anxiously waiting for winter to see how my new k4 performs for my 1600 sq ft home! Its doing great so far with dhw. Filling half a ash pan in 7 days. 2 1/2 buckets. Burning buck from direnzo. Delivered by leahman coal.
Looks awesome boots!!!
Looks awesome boots!!!
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- StokerDon
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- Posts: 7486
- Joined: Mon. Nov. 11, 2013 11:17 am
- Location: PA, Southern York County!
- Stoker Coal Boiler: Gentleman Janitor GJ-5, Van Wert VA-600, Axeman Anderson130 X3.
- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Harman SF3500 reduced down to 3 grates connected to its own plenum
- Coal Size/Type: Rice, Chestnut and whatever will fit through the door on the Harman
- Other Heating: Noth'in but COAL! Well, Maybe a little tiny bit of wood
Nice look'in, well organized install there jridings.
Where did the oil burner go?
-Don
Where did the oil burner go?
-Don
- jridings
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- Posts: 37
- Joined: Tue. Aug. 19, 2014 10:27 pm
- Location: Mount Carmel, PA
- Stoker Coal Boiler: keystoker k-4 dual fuel
- Coal Size/Type: buckwheat
Thanks stoker don! Unfortunately the utica boiler made a trip to the scrap yard. Made almost 300. However I saved the old beckett oil gun and circulator pumps for spares. Unless someone could use the oil gun, worked fine before I removed it. I switched because dhw coil bolts broke in housing and unit was 18 yrs old and inefficient. K4 is dual fuel though, just in case.
- lsayre
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- Joined: Wed. Nov. 23, 2005 9:17 pm
- Location: Ohio
- Stoker Coal Boiler: AHS S130 Coal Gun
- Coal Size/Type: Lehigh Anthracite Pea
- Other Heating: Resistance Boiler (13.5 KW), ComfortMax 75
Nice install jridings! You are going to love coal heat! The savings over oil will add up fast.
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- Location: Central PA
- Stoker Coal Boiler: Keystoker KA-6
- Hand Fed Coal Boiler: Burnham SFB 101 (sold)
I just now saw this post. Thankyou for the kind words, I am VERY proud of my install. I designed and installed the system myself after many many hours studying.jridings wrote:Hi im new to coal this year, anxiously waiting for winter to see how my new k4 performs for my 1600 sq ft home! Its doing great so far with dhw. Filling half a ash pan in 7 days. 2 1/2 buckets. Burning buck from direnzo. Delivered by leahman coal.
Looks awesome boots!!!
- jridings
- Member
- Posts: 37
- Joined: Tue. Aug. 19, 2014 10:27 pm
- Location: Mount Carmel, PA
- Stoker Coal Boiler: keystoker k-4 dual fuel
- Coal Size/Type: buckwheat
Hello boots, you should be very proud of your hard work! I wish more people cared about heating units because I wanted to show everyone my k4! Even though I had keystoker do the install. So that being said you should be even more proud because you did the planning and the work! Great job and enjoy! I am!
- johnjoseph
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- Joined: Mon. Sep. 15, 2014 6:05 pm
- Location: Aroostook County, Maine
- Stoker Coal Boiler: Keystoker KA-6
- Other Heating: pellet stove, oil boiler
My brothers new keystoker K10!
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- Posts: 13
- Joined: Sat. Aug. 23, 2014 12:10 pm
- Location: Bainbridge ohio
- Stoker Coal Boiler: keystoker kaa-4
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: brunco spitfire insert
- Coal Size/Type: nut/rice
- Other Heating: heat pump forced air
Hoping to fire it up this weekend. My wife got tired of only having half the house heated with a brunco spitfire fireplace Insert, and I got sick of seeing and paying for oil tank to be filled to heat the rest. Kaa-4-1, 2k sq/ft, 6 zones, 1 being radiant floor in kitchen. Taco 007 variable speed circulator. Crossing my fingers and hoping it works as expected. Has anyone ever plumbed the boiler by-pass loop to the second lower inlet/ where the drain is normally located? Keystoker said that the main reason for the loop is to avoid temp statisification, not so much for cold water shocking. Not sure if it will mess with the delta t that controls the circulator. But if it does won't be to bad to cut and move over. WANTED TO THANK YOU TO EVERYONE ON THIS SITE THAT ASKS AND ANSERWRS QUESTIONS. searching this site has been invaluable to getting this planned and hooked up. Thank you.
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- Scottscoaled
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- Joined: Tue. Jan. 08, 2008 9:51 pm
- Location: Malta N.Y.
- Stoker Coal Boiler: EFM 520, 700, Van Wert 800 GJ 61,53
- Baseburners & Antiques: Magic Stewart 16, times 2!
- Coal Size/Type: Lots of buck
- Other Heating: Slant Fin electric boiler backup
Whewwwww! SaWeeet install! Nice job. Stay warm
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- Posts: 13
- Joined: Sat. Aug. 23, 2014 12:10 pm
- Location: Bainbridge ohio
- Stoker Coal Boiler: keystoker kaa-4
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: brunco spitfire insert
- Coal Size/Type: nut/rice
- Other Heating: heat pump forced air
Thanks for the compliments. Unfortunately round one is an epic fail. Draft is unregisterable and aquastat is DOA. High limit won't shut off/ and when it does is inconsistent. Keystoker is sending a replacement. Don't understand the draft prob? 8x8 clay about 22ft and 6ft above roof. Is about 50 degrees here today. I have 6 liner I can put in but I think that's a question for another section in forum.
- jridings
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- Posts: 37
- Joined: Tue. Aug. 19, 2014 10:27 pm
- Location: Mount Carmel, PA
- Stoker Coal Boiler: keystoker k-4 dual fuel
- Coal Size/Type: buckwheat
Tony I also had draft issues w my k4. I installed a cap and problem solved. Then I had to adjust the resistor for the low blower speed durring idle. Then my t stats werent working right. After all the kinks r worked out its a great unit! No big project is complete without some level of frustration!
- StokerDon
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- Posts: 7486
- Joined: Mon. Nov. 11, 2013 11:17 am
- Location: PA, Southern York County!
- Stoker Coal Boiler: Gentleman Janitor GJ-5, Van Wert VA-600, Axeman Anderson130 X3.
- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Harman SF3500 reduced down to 3 grates connected to its own plenum
- Coal Size/Type: Rice, Chestnut and whatever will fit through the door on the Harman
- Other Heating: Noth'in but COAL! Well, Maybe a little tiny bit of wood
What the heck, I might have a photo or two of my Yellow Flame boiler.
110,000BTU Yellow Flame recipricating grate coal stoker boiler. Ment for burning Barley and Rice coal. Can also burn Buckwheat and small Pea coal in a pinch!
Almost a whole year late! I first fired it 1/20/2014.
-Don
110,000BTU Yellow Flame recipricating grate coal stoker boiler. Ment for burning Barley and Rice coal. Can also burn Buckwheat and small Pea coal in a pinch!
Almost a whole year late! I first fired it 1/20/2014.
-Don