Pictures of your stove

artguy wrote:Here's a picture of my newly acquired antique Parlor Stove. It is a Reading Stove Works Brilliant Sunshine.
I can not tell if this has been restored or not, but the finishes look to be original, and the unit seems to be complete.
The porcelain only has a couple small chips. The nickel plating that I just polished out is in great condition and now shines bright.
It would be great to obtain more information about this unit, as I have found very little through my research.

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I would not call that a parlor stove, but nuntheless it is sweet.

artguy wrote:Here's a picture of my newly acquired

Parlor Stove.jpg

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artguy wrote:Here's a picture of my newly acquired antique Parlor Stove. It is a Reading Stove Works Brilliant Sunshine.
I can not tell if this has been restored or not, but the finishes look to be original, and the unit seems to be complete.
The porcelain only has a couple small chips. The nickel plating that I just polished out is in great condition and now shines bright.
It would be great to obtain more information about this unit, as I have found very little through my research.

Parlor Stove.jpg

Hi artguy and welcome to the forum.
You could start a new thread on: Hand Fired Coal Stoves and get many answers to your questions and lot of comments.
BTW you got a very nice stove. Many parts of it are same as on my Golden Bride.

wow,that is beautiful.

Olix Air-Flo Wood/Coal stove bought in the mid 1980's. Not manufactured anymore, but a great stove.










Kevin

Kevin, that's a great looking stove! It looks like it can seriously crank out some heat.

On the eve of the pending frigid weather I thought I'd just drop a quick hello. The temp here in SW PA is to drop to 3 degrees tonight and a high of 10 Tuesday! Now that's COLD!

On this MLK holiday, I find myself doing paperwork cozied-up to our Harman TLC-2000 coal stove in the garden room. As a kid I remember Grandma & Granpap burning coal in their furnace and their cook stove in the kitchen. Uncle Leo and Grandpap would discuss the price of coal per ton, the quality or grade, and when Leo would deliver it to their coal bin in the basement.

Those old company houses had no insulation, except for the newspapers stuffed in the wall cracks. However, coal kept them warm and sometimes so hot the windows were open a crack to keep us all from roasting.

I've been burning hard coal (anthracite) in all my homes except when I lived in Ligonier borough. Many people are finding the benefits of burning clean hard coal rewarding. It requires some work, but the cozy toasty home is well worth it.

Bundle up, stay inside if you can and take care.

New motor. DC leaked over summer. Motor lasted till about a week ago. Gotta watch out for that next time I shut down. Powder coated base and various other parts never have to worry about them rusting one bit. Wish I would have had more stuff coated mainly the body after we got the DC flange welded on.

At least your AA130 has the extended coil mount...it probably just needed the bolts snugged when the boiler cooled.

Dan, I see on your very cool looking parlor boiler that it has the same triangular shaped shaker mechanism that I have on my little American Radiator Model No. 50 coal water heater.. But I don't have the correct tool to put on the triangular shaker rod..

Does anyone know where I might be able to get the tool with the triangle grabbing shape? I'd sure appreciate it, I hate abusing it with pliers..

Thanks !

Bob

I needed to grab a triangle once, heated a piece of pipe up hit it with a hammer a few times and then it was a trangle, welded on handle and all good.

To Short Bus,

That's pretty much exactly what I've been thinking of doing, since I started grabbing it with pliers, which don't work very well.. But it would be cool to own the right/original tool for the job, if it's not too expensive.. I'll probably bang a piece of pipe or another tool into the right shape meanwhile though.. Great forum !

Stock stuff and the original tools are fun to have.

Check Ebay. Put in Coal Stove Shaker Handle and you'll get some hits. They are a bit pricy but bet if you bid what you want to pay, you could probably get it. Better than pliers chewing up the post.

Yeah check E-bay antique stoves. There lots of them. Mine are Glenwoods, cast iron and look like Model T starters.

PS: That old Olix Air Flow looks like a real tank! Nice.