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   VaTom | Sep 12, 2004 01:32am | #1

   A boiler?  How well do you weld?

   PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!

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   rez | Sep 12, 2004 03:56am | #2

   Welding, I'm passable but thinking more along the lines of a firebrick design in that I auctionbought a slew and I mean slew of firebrick a few years back.be dead on or that quarter inch is going to haunt you

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   junkhound | Sep 12, 2004 07:32am | #3

   Built an indoor one, few hundred feet of 1/2 pipe inside firebrick -  what mehod do you plan to use to transfer heat to indoors?

   Outdoor fed Rumsford may be worth looking into. 

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   rez | Sep 12, 2004 04:04pm | #6

   Not sure of a design. Just gathering data right now.

   1/2 pipe inside firebrick meaning you heated water by circulating or as a few hundred foot long water tank?

   I'm thinking something large that could take goodsized logs.

   Like a four footer.be dead on or that quarter inch is going to haunt you

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   junkhound | Sep 12, 2004 05:23pm | #8

   Network of pipes in fireplace and in 18" sq flue. Water circulates in the pipes to a pair of old car AC condensers in the ducts in the basement.  Can easily heat 5300 sq ft from low 20s (never gotten colder than that here)

   Burned 7-10 cords a year when house was exclusively heated with firewood.

   Photo of back wall of fireplace, 6 ft triangle, can take 5ft log

   edit PS;  yep, I've got a motorized pipe threader, plumbing job would be a killer without such aids.

   Edited 9/12/2004 10:25 am ET by JUNKHOUND

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   rez | Sep 12, 2004 05:29pm | #9

   J- Thanks for the pic.

   Man, 18" sq. That is a big flue.

   be dead on or that quarter inch is going to haunt you

   Edited 9/12/2004 10:30 am ET by rez

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   VaTom | Sep 12, 2004 08:15pm | #10

   I'm thinking something large that could take goodsized logs.

   Like a four footer.

   I've got a surplus one (boiler) if you want to come after it.  Takes 4' logs.  Used to be a backup to solar system for 7 apts.  Minimal use, but too large for my application.  1/2 ton pickup not recommended.  5/16" plate IIRC.PAHS Designer/Builder- Bury it!

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   Gunner | Sep 12, 2004 01:46pm | #4

   

   Who Dares Wins.

   
   

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   Edited 9/12/2004 6:47 am ET by Gunner

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   rez | Sep 12, 2004 03:50pm | #5

   ROAR!

   Man, where do you get this stuff? Cracked me right up.

   Hmm, wonder why he had the plenum sloping down? :o)be dead on or that quarter inch is going to haunt you

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   Gunner | Sep 12, 2004 04:20pm | #7

   You have to surf the net slow, the stuff is everywhere. That one came from here somewhere.Who Dares Wins.