1979 Keystoker KC-10 Installed.

Well being new to the stoker "family" I am so far very happy with my purchase and install. My dad has been heating with a outdoor boiler for around 10 years now, which is what I was going to install, but I was required to sign an agreement that I would not install a wood or coal boiler that emits "noxious" gas in order to purchase my house. After some research we found that the answer for eliminating my costly form of heating was in anthracite. We found the gem at a very reasonable price, but it was in need of some repairs. I had to plate the outside of the boiler where the gun attaches, and we also had to fix the seal for the ash door. The tin was junk so I just wire brushed the boiler and painted with high temp rustoleum. And I also had to patch up the hopper I just used some heavy aluminum sheeting riveting it to the existing good tin of the hopper. We built the manifold for the zones out of 2 inch steel by drilling holes in the steel pipe and welding 1 inch nipples in.. The primary/boiler loop pump was off of my old oil boiler and is in perfect working order so we decided to save a buck there. The stainless ash door was made by the previous owner but he never made it function he just hung it from the seal.

So that's the story of my stoker install. I need to replace the DHW coils because they are both bad, and I would also like to put a manometer in to check my draft. If anyone has any other helpful tidbits I am all ears. Thanks everyone!

That's a Monster

Welcome to the forum!

Wow! a K10, that is one beast of a boiler. How much does that hopper hold?

One thing you should do is slap some foam board insulation on the boiler. That big thing is going to radiate a lot of heat out of it. You want the heat to go where you are directing it, not just the boiler room.

-Don

A K10 is a nice rig. What are you heating with it? Is the boiler installed in a basement? Don is right, with no insulation on that boiler it is putting a lot of heat into the boiler room.

Based on the wheel barrel of clinkers in the picture, you may want to spend a little time adjusting the feed and air settings. Also consider getting some buck size coal for the colder months...those big inclined bed stokers do well with buck at high output levels.

Keystoker says 450 lbs hopper capacity but I have had about 500 In it.

The k10 is heating two houses. It is installed in my basement kinda in the middle of the house, it is a single level home with a full basement with only about 950 square feet. So far as for the no insulation it's been pretty good my zone pumps hardly run but the house maintains between 70 and 72 degrees. I'm not saying I'm not going to insulate it, but I'm not unhappy with the way it's heating my home. I live out In the country but The second house is still 12 feet from my place, it's a rental, the reason our houses are so close is because my house was a garage that was turned into a house in the 20s. My great grandmother and grand father lived in my home and her parents my great great grand parents lived in the rental. I know it's unnecessary info but I think it's a pretty cool story. The rental is about 11 square feet single level, and so far the renters love the cheap heat. They said "it is nice to finally be able to keep the house warm ."

I know the ashes are a little clunky to say the least. I'm am definitely still in the adjustment stage. I am still a little concerned about my draft I think I may have too much. I am just straight piped into the chimney, with no dampener.

Yes, you need to get a baro installed on the flue pipe.