The Epoch of the Axeman

By the looks of the run of pipe, it'll need NOS too.
(TOTP )

I've been busy hanging bb radiators today. We'll be heating the salon/studio with coal real soon if all goes well

I mounted them 3 inches above the floor which probably isn't normal but there are a couple reasons for my madness.. #1 seems like it would make them a little more efficient for air circulation if there were obstructions and #2 gives them a little protection from getting kicked or ran into by furniture with stubby sloped legs.

My wife didn't object, so there's that

The building will end up with 53 feet of rads on one loop which is 26,500 BTUs.. This exceeds what the calculator suggested by a few thousand.. the secondary loop is all 3/4 inch pex, the rads are 3/4 also. This loop will be pushed by a 007 trigged by thermostat.

Easier floor cleanup...
Might need to run a hepa filter to mix up the colder air on the floor...

Nice, just remember 3/4” pex is only 1/2” copper.

I get to help the spousal unit occasionally with her cleaning business and I like the higher installation so you can easily clean to the wall with a vacuum under them.

I like the look of that flooring. Next project for us is kitchen floor with something like that. By the way....you need to fix that one piece of window trim!

Thanks fellas, yeah sweeping, mopping, running the vacuum would all be less of a hazard for the bb rads. I'm glad I gave them a few inches off the floor, it was a spur of the moment idea and wasn't sure if I'd get any objection I noticed that window trim just yesterday, it was hidden before I moved stuff away from the wall.. The flooring is the laminate snap together type. My buddy and I picked it up at an auction, its commercial grade.

Lee, is the run of 53 ft. of HWB in the Salon getting its heat off of a locally positioned water to water heat exchanger, such that the 007 is only seeing the HWB loop through the exchanger? Or will the 007 also be called upon to move water from your basement all the way to the Salon through the below ground stretch and then on top of that be asked to make the run through the 53 ft. of baseboards? I'm concerned because 007's are relatively low head and high GPM circulators. For the first case (low head) the 007 is vast overkill and will deliver way more GPM's than are needed to move 26,500 BTUH. And for the second case (high head) the 007 may not deliver enough GPM flow due to friction head constraints.

I'm using a primary/secondary loop. The primary loop will be fed by the circulator in the basement, the secondary loop will be fed by the 007.

A little overkill to feed the secondary loop should be a good thing right? The water feeding rads at the end of the loop won't be cold.

Today after I had had enough of working on radiators in the salon/studio I went down to the basement to sit with the Axe. I had a good opportunity to try and capture the sounds of it running. So towards the end of a combustion call I shut off power, slipped the belt off the coal feed tube drive and turned her back on.

These Galaxy Note 9 smart phones have really good sound capturing ability. They actually have two mics to record in stereo. Band vids sound better than any other smart phone capture that I've heard.

Anyways, I tried to get that roar sound I hear once the fire is really hammering. There is a turbine whine happening too. The tink, tink sound is shards of coal bouncing off the view glass. When the blower does stop you can hear the coal crackling and that "kettling" sound of the water in boiler sizzling. At that moment you hear me sit in my chair too I shoulda known better than to do that.. Try listening thru headphones or good quality sound system.

SOUND UP! Check it out

Wow! What a heat monster. Makes a Clayton jealous, aye Lee? And what's the chain driving? Does it open and close a valve in the pipe? Looks pretty rugged.

Are you telling me that furnace is "self feeding" Rob?

joeq wrote: ↑

Sun. Dec. 01, 2019 7:17 pm

Are you telling me that furnace is "self feeding" Rob?

Yep.

That tube is what is feeding the coal in.

joeq wrote: ↑

Sun. Dec. 01, 2019 7:17 pm

Are you telling me that furnace is "self feeding" Rob?

The tube conveys coal into the boiler right out of the 6 ton coal bin. All I do is haul out about 25 pounds of ashes every 3-4 days.

I'll put together a demonstration video for ya Joe

Cool Lee. Now, if you could just reverse the operation for removing the ash, then you'ld really be onto something. Good luck.