Picked up a Radiant Home Air Blast No. 264A...have some Q's?

McGiever thats much better!!! this is unbelieveable stuff and the best thread ive seen in a year. I just love that stove! You found a gosh darn diamond my friend In all my years this one is the rarest ive ever seen and the most unique. Im so happy for you and all we ask is that you let us be next to you every step of the way... more pics the better!

I agree with the previous poster that It really does reflect on how superior those old timers were back then... such detail, engineering and function not to mention the time, costs and effort to produce. I sure hope once its restored McGiever you will get a load of the crappiest junk coal and give this beauty a whirl (I know its gonna be hard to do, but you MUST for us ALL!)

The grates are shown here.

If it were me, I would send that original grate off to Tomahawk Foundry and have a copy cast. I would use the copy and keep the original put away. A Bituminous grate like this one might be hard to replace these days.

nortcan wrote:Is bit ash as sticking as anth is? If so, I wonder if the slots got jammed with ash build up? Or maybe a liner in front of the stots was protecting the fire pot and also avoiding filling the stots with ash??????

Most Bituminous burns down to a very fine, light ash. Of course there are huge differences in kinds of Bituminous coal. All the different coal I grew up with and used before I came North and started with Anthracite, all would burn to a fine ash.
The good coal I used to get from Rich Mountain in KY only had 2% ash by volume. Much less than Anthracite.

A belated congratulations on your stove. Good job I am broke after my last stove purchase as the more I read about these beauties the more I want them - I would buy them all if I could. My wife sees a bucket of rust, I can tell. I see beauty - the saying that beauty is where you find it is so true. Please keep up the photos as you rebuild, you can never take enough. I rebuilt a Jaguar XK120 25 years ago and the scares on my knuckles are still there and my rebuilding days are over. However, I can still marvel as those who have the energy and the youth to cut the mustard. Good luck.

wsherrick wrote:If it were me, I would send that original grate off to Tomahawk Foundry and have a copy cast. I would use the copy and keep the original put away. A Bituminous grate like this one might be hard to replace these days.

Now theirs a smart man^^^, This grate would cost a lot of $$$ to reproduce one time and im not sure what the tolerances are (there very tight for sure), you may have to grind as smooth as possible or ask the foundry about making as inexpensive a production mold as possible (they can use materials other then a $20k aluminum mold now). OR we can become like Smitty here ... http://www.metalwebnews.com/howto/furna ... -iron.html