Identifying a Harman Stove

Nice! Be sure to post photos as the work progresses. That baby will put out some serious heat.
So how long have you been collecting batteries?

Wood'nCoal wrote:So how long have you been collecting batteries?

Good catch, I just noticed that!

I have the house set up on a battery backup system, with 2 Trace 3600 W inverters running in series and a bank of deep cycle electric vehicle batteries. I get 3600 W at 220 V or 7200 W at 115. This will run the entire house except for DW, W & D and electric oven. Cuurently I use the grid to charge the batteries and only use them for power outages.eventually we plan to add solar panels and wind generator to supply our power. The old batteries I have been collecting are for core charge trade in when I add new batteries. They don't care what type of battery you trade in as long as you have one. It saves me $10 per battery core charge. Several friends have donated to the cause. When I started, I had 16 to trade in on new batteries. Hopefully, when it is time to upgrade, I will have enough to double my battery bank.

I figured they were for the cores. I used to collect batteries for the cores as well.

Are battery cores really worth $10 now?? If so, I've got enough for a ton of good coal!!

Greg.

They are here. If you buy a new battery and don't have a core, they charge you $10 extra. Adds up fast when you buy 32 batteries.

I just bought a battery today and the core charge was $9.00

10.00 Bucks here to I have a few laying around as well for the same reason it saves time just Pick a old one go get the New one take the bad one out put the new one in dunn take the bad put it next to the rest for next time

I wonder what a battery is worth as scrap.... I may call the local scrap dealers.. I know steel and aluminum have gone way up.

Greg L

Any suggestions on what to use to clean old brass on a stove? The brass on this stove is pretty blackened from age and use.

I have used toilet bowl cleaner to clean brass that is black with soot and corrosion. Use 0000 steel wool and rubber gloves.. keep the brass wet.

It also works to soak the brass items in a rubbermaid wash tub in the TB cleaner.

I've used Lysol TB cleaner,, The Works.. and a few others.. Turns the brass a clean but slightly reddish-coppery color.. the final brass color can be brought out with Semi-chrome polish or Never-Dull.

Greg L

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coal-cooker wrote:Well it's home. I had to remove everything that was removable to lighten it up. Three of us removed it from a basement where it had been sitting for the last ten or twelve years. I rented a large appliance dolly from UHAUL (best $10 I ever spent) and it rolled real easy. No issues, no hernias. Now to start cleaning it up for next winter. Needs new bricks, gaskets and new panes in the door, but other than that it is solid.

Congrats
Real nice looking stove. If I had found something that good used, in my area, I would have bought it.
Should work out real well for you. Keep us posted whenever you get to fire it up.

coal-cooker wrote:Any suggestions on what to use to clean old brass on a stove? The brass on this stove is pretty blackened from age and use.

Try Noxon.

coal-cooker wrote:Any suggestions on what to use to clean old brass on a stove? The brass on this stove is pretty blackened from age and use.

Try Flitz works on anything