A Glenwood K in it's natural habitat
- BunkerdCaddis
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I thought you kitchen stove guys N girls would enjoy this from the Shorpy website...
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- Sunny Boy
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Thanks BC, nice find.
That looks like the big version of Wren's Glenwood model C.
The water tank on the wall might mean that the range has a "water front" - a cast iron water jacket that makes up one or two walls of the firebox. Water circulates through it by convection to be stored in the tank.
Paul
That looks like the big version of Wren's Glenwood model C.
The water tank on the wall might mean that the range has a "water front" - a cast iron water jacket that makes up one or two walls of the firebox. Water circulates through it by convection to be stored in the tank.
Paul
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Looks great. It is pre 1926 but post 1918. the thermometer looks to have the aluminum face which would be just post WW1. It is set up for coal and looks to have a water front as well. Great stove for the day
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Id really like to try this. As soon as I finish a few other things.
Looking through the threads lots of people have boilers. Boilers....
There’s a picture posted by a guy, Bunkerd of a Glenwood K with a tank behind it
Looking through the threads lots of people have boilers. Boilers....
There’s a picture posted by a guy, Bunkerd of a Glenwood K with a tank behind it
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- mntbugy
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A pretty nice set-up below, but not the price.
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- Wren
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Kinda pricey but beautiful.
I’m reading that water tanks for coal or wood stoves are lined with stone and designed to let heat escape. I’d like to keep it simple.
I’m reading that water tanks for coal or wood stoves are lined with stone and designed to let heat escape. I’d like to keep it simple.
- Sunny Boy
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The toughest part of that is likely to be finding a water front for your range that is still in good enough condition to take household water pressure ?
The holding tank can be a small, used hot water heater. And the piping system is rather simple off-the-shelf items.
Paul
The holding tank can be a small, used hot water heater. And the piping system is rather simple off-the-shelf items.
Paul
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I’m trying to follow threads on this site but the level of expertise is too elevated for my ability level. I can solder pipes no problem though, and the diagram set up is simple enough.
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- Coal Size/Type: Nuts !
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That looks like the back of the firebox with one of the two pipe holes covered.Wren wrote: ↑Fri. Oct. 25, 2019 6:20 pm9D03AF36-B3D9-4428-BF01-E015505BA833.jpegI can’t find it where, but didn’t you say this was to pipe the water in cold and out hot? It looks to be in the same place as the diagram.
I’m trying to follow threads on this site but the level of expertise is too elevated for my ability level. I can solder pipes no problem though, and the diagram set up is simple enough.
The water front is a separate cast iron water jacket that sits along the side of the firebox replacing the fire bricks. It's either one long side, or some are L-shaped for one long side and one end. Iron pipe is then threaded into the casting's inlet and outlet and extends through the holes in the rear of the firebox after the covers are removed.
It's called a "water front" because the fire brick it replaces runs along the ash door side of the firebox, which as you may remember, is technically the front of the range. When your normally standing at your range cooking, what most people assume is the front of the range is really the right side - a holdover term from the earlier simple cook stoves before the days of ranges. When ranges came along they still viewed the firebox parts placement while standing at the hearth (ash drawer door) end.
You can still see evidence of this firebox "front", "left", "right" and "back" in some of the GW parts diagrams for the brick layout for ordering new fire bricks.
Paul
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Here's more details about a "water front". It's about wood stoves, but we can forgive them.
http://solarhomestead.com/using-your-wood-stove-t ... eat-water/
Some of the new welded steel ranges are already set up to connect up pipes to make hot water.
https://www.susprep.com/off-grid-water/hot-water- ... ook-stove/
And here's what can happen when it's plumbed wrong.
https://woodheat.org/heating-water-with-a-wood-stove.html
At some point in the life of the Acorn range that Melissa grew up with, someone cut holes in the end under the cooktop shelf and ran water pipes in the flue space between the oven top and the cooktop. I'd rather find or make a water front that fits in the way the originals did rather than chop holes in an antique range !!!!!
Paul
http://solarhomestead.com/using-your-wood-stove-t ... eat-water/
Some of the new welded steel ranges are already set up to connect up pipes to make hot water.
https://www.susprep.com/off-grid-water/hot-water- ... ook-stove/
And here's what can happen when it's plumbed wrong.
https://woodheat.org/heating-water-with-a-wood-stove.html
At some point in the life of the Acorn range that Melissa grew up with, someone cut holes in the end under the cooktop shelf and ran water pipes in the flue space between the oven top and the cooktop. I'd rather find or make a water front that fits in the way the originals did rather than chop holes in an antique range !!!!!
Paul