Pictures of your stove

Re: Pictures of your stove

PostBy: carlherrnstein On: Fri Aug 31, 2012 4:26 pm

100 :shock: That would have been a job to make all the casting patterns for it back in the day. Its really suprising what craftsmen were able to do.
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Re: Pictures of your stove

PostBy: mcgills443 On: Sun Sep 16, 2012 11:32 pm

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Hello Everyone,

Here is some pics of my new boiler. Van Wert 400 with hot water coil theromosiphon to 80 gal. hot water tank. I previous had Harman SF260 hand fire. I bought boiler from Scottscoaled and had excellent buying experience. I'm heating 1600 sq. ft. well insulated ranch house with a water to air heat exchanger. I want to thank Scott and Rob for help with setting up boiler.Gooday! Joe
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Re: Pictures of your stove

PostBy: Rob R. On: Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:38 am

Nice install! The burn pot on those Van Wert stokers looks like it could withstand a nuclear blast.
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Re: Pictures of your stove

PostBy: mcgills443 On: Mon Sep 17, 2012 6:49 pm

Rob,

Thank you! I do like the Van wert's simple tank design. I had a couple of minor explosions with my harman SF260. Have you ever experienced a boom with EFM?
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Re: Pictures of your stove

PostBy: Rob R. On: Mon Sep 17, 2012 7:19 pm

mcgills443 wrote: Have you ever experienced a boom with EFM?


Never. The feed of coal and air is controlled, so no booms.
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Re: Pictures of your stove

PostBy: Scottscoaled On: Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:28 pm

Hey Joe! Nice install. You did quite a bit of work since last time. How does that thermosiphon loop work? How hot does the tank get and what kind of recovery time are you getting? :)
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Re: Pictures of your stove

PostBy: mcgills443 On: Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:58 pm

Scott,

Thank you! The tank stays about same temp as boiler, now 140-150. I haven't run out of hot water yet :D I keep Rinnai tankless water heater on also in house set at 120. The tempered water coming in goes to cold inlet of tankless water heater at around 130 so Rinnai never fires up. :) . I ran 3/4 cooper from 1 inlet of coil to drain of HW tank, and the outlet of coil up to PRV valve of hot water. I put dielect union on both coil inlet,outlet and on both ends of water tank for easy removal.I have 2 PRV on inlet of coil and on top of tank where prv valve went into tank. Gooday! Joe
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Re: Pictures of your stove

PostBy: firebug On: Thu Sep 20, 2012 9:36 am

Felix 141, produced by Ludwigshütte, Germany (1914)
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Re: Pictures of your stove

PostBy: coalkirk On: Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:37 am

Absolutley beautiful! Is it functional?
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Re: Pictures of your stove

PostBy: firebug On: Thu Sep 20, 2012 1:55 pm

Of course! :lol:
Had to take it to the Technical Control Board to get a bloody expensive certificate that states its efficiency and the ammount of pollutants it emits, otherwise it´d be illegal to use it in Germany... :mad:
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Re: Pictures of your stove

PostBy: cmk9180 On: Tue Oct 23, 2012 1:15 pm

if anybody is wondering how to get heat from a coal stove from their basement upstairs, this is how to do it. This is a Hitzer 50-93. It heats 3400 sq ft with the outside temperature in the 20s, and using the stove's lowest heat setting.
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Re: Pictures of your stove

PostBy: Ian121 On: Tue Dec 04, 2012 7:05 pm

My Koker 160
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Re: Pictures of your stove

PostBy: Lightning On: Tue Dec 04, 2012 10:36 pm

Ian121 wrote:My Koker 160


Yeah man! Looks like quite the heat monster 8-)
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Re: Pictures of your stove

PostBy: artguy On: Mon Dec 24, 2012 10:58 pm

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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Re: Pictures of your stove

PostBy: freetown fred On: Mon Dec 24, 2012 11:08 pm

Welcome to the FORUM ag. She's a pretty one. You'll get some feed back on your new Lady--bet on it. How about some internal pix? Have a Merry Christmas my friend :)
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