Don't worry Fred, you would need to add a full instrument panel to your Hitzer to qualify.
Watch Out for This Guy!
- warminmn
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- Joined: Tue. Feb. 08, 2011 5:59 pm
- Location: Land of 11,842 lakes
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Chubby Junior, Efel Nestor Martin, Riteway 37
- Coal Size/Type: nut and stove anthracite, lignite
- Other Heating: Wood and wear a wool shirt
Start small, maybe with a magnetic thermometer
I get the geek like part of it. Kind of like there is no choice for using coal, and even enjoying looking at the coal bin in the warm months... its almost like losing a friend letting my fire go out in the late spring.
I get the geek like part of it. Kind of like there is no choice for using coal, and even enjoying looking at the coal bin in the warm months... its almost like losing a friend letting my fire go out in the late spring.
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- Joined: Fri. Aug. 16, 2019 3:02 pm
- Location: Oneida, N.Y.
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Harmon Mark II
- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: Looking
- Baseburners & Antiques: Looking
- Coal Size/Type: Nut
- Other Heating: newmac wood/coal combo furnace
And I thought I had it bad, checking craigslist every day hoping a bigger stove at a cheaper price will show up. Memorizing all the brochures so I knew what size each stove was when I saw it. I even did a basement mine job before I got a stove.
- freetown fred
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- Location: Freetown,NY 13803
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: HITZER 50-93
- Coal Size/Type: BLASCHAK Nut
you guys!!!
- Hambden Bob
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- Joined: Mon. Jan. 04, 2010 10:54 am
- Location: Hambden Twp. Geauga County,Ohio
- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: Harman 1998 Magnum Stoker
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Blower Model Coal Chubby 1982-Serial#0097
- Coal Size/Type: Rice-A-Roni ! / Nut
- Other Heating: Pro-Pain Forced Air
And this,Boys and Girls,is what this Board is all about!!
- BunkerdCaddis
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- Location: SW Lancaster County
- Stoker Coal Boiler: Bairmatic-Van Wert
- Hand Fed Coal Boiler: Van Wert VW85H
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Saey Hanover II working when I feel the desire, Waterford 105 out on vacation, Surdiac Gotha hiding somewhere
- Coal Size/Type: pea/nut/rice/stove-anthracite, nut/stove bit when I feel the urge
- Other Heating: oil fired hydronic
And then one day you find ten stoves have got behind you
No one told you when to stop, you bought another (stoker) pot...
And you run, and you run to catch up to Stoker Don but he's hunting,
Racing around to come up with another Axeman...
(No apologies to pink floyd... I did it my way)
Rinker is a good company and more reasonable $$ than most.
At the end of the day people just like to bitch, if it's not the weather, it's the heating bill.
Very few actually care, and fewer still will do anything about it.
As Rob mentioned, insulation and tightness (to a point, too many spray-foamed homes with humidity/mold issues) is the best solution to high heating bills.
If you live in this overtaxed, oversalted, frozen dump called the northeast, like me, your heating bills are not close to the most significant place you're hemorrhaging money.
At the end of the day people just like to bitch, if it's not the weather, it's the heating bill.
Very few actually care, and fewer still will do anything about it.
As Rob mentioned, insulation and tightness (to a point, too many spray-foamed homes with humidity/mold issues) is the best solution to high heating bills.
If you live in this overtaxed, oversalted, frozen dump called the northeast, like me, your heating bills are not close to the most significant place you're hemorrhaging money.
- freetown fred
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LOL---indeed B!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL again!!
- CoalisCoolxWarm
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- Location: Western PA
- Stoker Coal Boiler: Keystoker KA-6
- Hand Fed Coal Furnace: old Sears rebuilt, bituminous- offline as of winter 2014
- Coal Size/Type: Anthracite Buckwheat
- Other Heating: Oil Boiler
So we're gonna convert Fred and change his name to "Gadget Fred" ??? LOL.
This stuff works much better than the single use cans (watch video)
https://www.greatstuff.dupont.com/products/greats ... racks.html
Tip: Dip end of gun in vaseline before use and spread it a few inches up the gun to keep it from sticking. Wipe off with paper towel when finished.
Tip: After the foam skins over, you can "mold" it into shape, into cracks, etc for a smoother fit and finish.
Yield and control are MUCH better, plus I regularly store cans 3 months or more at a time.
DEFINITELY the better way to go. The dispenser gun isn't even that expensive and all can be had at Home Depot.
Tip: 2" foamboard is cheaper per volume. So cut piece of foam to go into your rim joint and then use spray foam to glue it into place and fill gaps.
This stuff works much better than the single use cans (watch video)
https://www.greatstuff.dupont.com/products/greats ... racks.html
Tip: Dip end of gun in vaseline before use and spread it a few inches up the gun to keep it from sticking. Wipe off with paper towel when finished.
Tip: After the foam skins over, you can "mold" it into shape, into cracks, etc for a smoother fit and finish.
Yield and control are MUCH better, plus I regularly store cans 3 months or more at a time.
DEFINITELY the better way to go. The dispenser gun isn't even that expensive and all can be had at Home Depot.
Tip: 2" foamboard is cheaper per volume. So cut piece of foam to go into your rim joint and then use spray foam to glue it into place and fill gaps.