Does anyone know what make boiler this is?
Need Help Identifying Boiler
- McGiever
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- Coal Size/Type: PEA,NUT,STOVE /ANTHRACITE
- Other Heating: Ground Source Heat Pump and some Solar
*Stoker Don* knows.
- StokerDon
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- Stoker Coal Boiler: Gentleman Janitor GJ-5, Van Wert VA-600, Axeman Anderson130 X3.
- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Harman SF3500 reduced down to 3 grates connected to its own plenum
- Coal Size/Type: Rice, Chestnut and whatever will fit through the door on the Harman
- Other Heating: Noth'in but COAL! Well, Maybe a little tiny bit of wood
That, I believe is a V&E stoker boiler. It is a moving grate stoker. I don't know how it works, that one there is the only one I have seen. I talked to him last year about it. His craigslist posting was deleted yesterday.
So, I guess you bought it from the guy in Newville? Take some more pictures of it, we would love to see it's insides!
-Don
So, I guess you bought it from the guy in Newville? Take some more pictures of it, we would love to see it's insides!
-Don
- StokerDon
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- Stoker Coal Boiler: Gentleman Janitor GJ-5, Van Wert VA-600, Axeman Anderson130 X3.
- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Harman SF3500 reduced down to 3 grates connected to its own plenum
- Coal Size/Type: Rice, Chestnut and whatever will fit through the door on the Harman
- Other Heating: Noth'in but COAL! Well, Maybe a little tiny bit of wood
I probably would have bought it if it wasn't so far way from me. I have only heard of V&E stokers, I have never see one in person. The guy said it was big, so my plan was to put a Yellow Flame or maybe even an EFM stoker in it.
I wonder how bought it?
-Don
I wonder how bought it?
-Don
- BunkerdCaddis
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- Coal Size/Type: pea/nut/rice/stove-anthracite, nut/stove bit when I feel the urge
- Other Heating: oil fired hydronic
He dropped the price and relisted it, I've just been kinda watching it too. I'd like to mess around with one of these old boilers someday but if I start another project in the near future, I'll end up on the outside looking in...
- StokerDon
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- Stoker Coal Boiler: Gentleman Janitor GJ-5, Van Wert VA-600, Axeman Anderson130 X3.
- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Harman SF3500 reduced down to 3 grates connected to its own plenum
- Coal Size/Type: Rice, Chestnut and whatever will fit through the door on the Harman
- Other Heating: Noth'in but COAL! Well, Maybe a little tiny bit of wood
Your right Bunk! He dropped it to $500.
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That's still a bit high for an unknown like that. It would have to be at least pressure tested for me to pay that much. When I talked to him he said his father had the grate re-cast back in the 70's. I don't know if he has a spare of not.
I have this bad habit of putting stokers in boilers they don't belong in, so I would just stick one on my Van Wert's in it and that would be that!
-Don
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That's still a bit high for an unknown like that. It would have to be at least pressure tested for me to pay that much. When I talked to him he said his father had the grate re-cast back in the 70's. I don't know if he has a spare of not.
I have this bad habit of putting stokers in boilers they don't belong in, so I would just stick one on my Van Wert's in it and that would be that!
-Don