Chappee hand fired boiler

I purchased a Chappee 28 this summer and installed it. The damper controll was shot so I found one at a local plumbing supply store, 150.00, but it works great. I have burned about 6 cords of wood so far and I think probably 8 will do it for this year. I have never burned coal, everone around here seems to burn wood. Thanks for the copy of the manual I've been looking for the manual since I bought the boiler....

I have found a supplier for the damper controll in New york they only charge $135.00 and they are readily available. "The Boiler Man" needs to get a life he's ripping everyone off :mad: ............. The controls can be ordered over the phone with a credit card and shipped UPS. I am new here so I don't know if I can post the information but if I can I will. I have the very same controller on my Chappee 28 and it works PERFECTLY..

1st The Damper Controls are sold under different manufactures !!!! Quality is the issue. My cost is over $200 and if you had a real supplier of quality it would be posted here. These controls are made in Germany and Sweden and other places! I have been in business for over 35yrs.I am a Master of Boilers, I have seen junk, Have even purchased some of these cheap controls and later to find no parts available. No service or warranty. I sell a high quality Thermostatic Damper Control and have even the Originals available at times but they have to come from over sea's !!! This is a major ordeal, Case Lots and allot of paper work and middlemen involved to get, Importing is not easy. Manufactures will not deal with someone who wants one or a few ! So show me were a high quality or originals can be purchased under $200 and i will investigate.. I have truly 3 yrs researching and calling over sea's for the two original Damper Controls, If you find something its most likely been sitting on a shelf for many years or in some old hardware store old inventory! I receive hundreds of calls / emails a season. I sell allot and no issues. I have owned - sold most of these boilers many years ago, If you need a Quality Thermostatic Damper Control at a fair and reasonable price i have them. But after 2 ordeals of constant boiler over heating, No proper Dump Zone and burning out controls ( 2 in 4yrs ) and the manufacture telling me it blew apart or burn't up as a result of over heating we lost money and no longer expect credit cards and do not feel we should be responsible for Harry the Home Owners Mistakes and should not have to pay for said mistakes. This is why we take US Postal Money Orders or as i travel as i teach and instruct thru out the USA, I have to take wire transfers at rare times! RARE.. Not often !!! So if you need my High Quality Control it comes with a limited warranty, I ship US Priority Mail and you have within 3 days. If installed properly and not over heated the manufacture will replace. There is no set warranty period. I will warranty it for the season or 6 months and replacement only. The warranty process is 3 days to 2 weeks. If constantly over heated it will not be replaced. Get a dump zone and avoid this issue! TheBoilerMan.Biz

3 years ago i was burning a large clayton forced air basement furnace for about 5 years on ky bit lump coal i would have a dump truck deliver about 5 tons at 80.00 per ton the size was anywhere from gravel to 6 foot chunks i would just take a axe and wack it and it would bust up in nice pieces about the size of a brick or smaller and man you talk about heat my wife ask why we had to be cold the previous years and work our but off fooling with wood it would hold a fire all night long with no problem and in the morning open the draft shake the grate and she would start chugging but when you went outside and looked up it looked like a john wayne movie where the indians were chasing the locomotive black smoke like crazy and fly ash, had to clean pipe 2-3-times per season,no problem building or holding a fire that baby would run you out ,i was heating 3300sq ft plus a basement,so i changed to bit stoker coal in a outdoor boiler
coal is now 100 per ton delivered and they auger it into a shed
mark
central ky

Hi I have goten a chappee c-28 wood boiler and was looking for a part that runs the air control does anybody know where I can find the part?
thanks
Darian

djcouturier wrote:Hi I have goten a chappee c-28 wood boiler and was looking for a part that runs the air control does anybody know where I can find the part?
thanks
Darian

Those came with a "Calorstat", like the one listed for sale here: http://www.theboilerman.biz/calorstat_d ... ontrol.htm

A more cost effective solution is a Samson 5D Draft Control, like the one used on EFM's hand-fired boiler. Contrary to what the "boilerman" posted earlier the Samson unit is Made in Germany, and is a quality item. I installed on on my Itasca hand-fired boiler and it worked excellent. You can find it online (http://www.boilerroomequipment.com/prod ... cts_id=986) or call an EFM dealer and ask for the draft control used on their WCB-24 hand fired boiler.