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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: long sidearm heat exchangers

« on: November 22, 2015, 08:31:32 PM »

From what I understand a FPHE will heat the water coming in from the street to the DW tank. A sidearm will maintain temp in the HW tank while not in use by thermo siphoning. Like described above, it "perculates"

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / Re: metalesbestos class A chimney

« on: November 22, 2015, 08:20:15 PM »

I'm getting the same suggestion as yours on another forum. I plan to keep the pipe as single wall for my shop building ... when i get around to building it ...

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General Outdoor Furnace Discussion / metalesbestos class A chimney

« on: November 20, 2015, 07:17:01 AM »

Help! I bought insulated stove pipe of cl and some of it is saturated with water.  Some piping was left outside before I got it. Is there any way to dry it out? Was thinking I could stand it up next to my wood stove for a few days. If I could dry it out would it still be effective and safe to use? Pipe is for my stove and will run up side of house.

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Fire Wood / Re: craigslist wood for sale

« on: March 09, 2015, 06:17:10 PM »

I'm in ny and this is the first time I ever had to pay for wood for I am in the tree buisness'0. I relocated and had no wood. I bought my wood stove late in season. I had no wood left for myself. I bought 4 cord and scrounged up one more. With almost two face cord left I'm rationing the remainder. I don't want to ever pay for another stick!   

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For Sale / Re: 20 plate heat exchangers

« on: January 07, 2015, 10:29:44 AM »

I have a few 20 plates that I ordered and then decided not to use. They have 3/4" female pipe thread for the DHW and 1" female pipe thread for the boiler side. They are a little smaller than normal, 11-3/8" long x 4-5/8" wide.

They are setup this way to allow using cheaper and easier to get fittings.

Looking to get $140 each including shipping or can give a deal on more than one. Credit card, paypal or any other way you want to pay is fine.

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i realize this post is a bit old but do you have any fp's left? i'm looking for a 20 plate for my dhw

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Home Made / Re: Is it worth the trouble

« on: December 28, 2014, 05:00:01 PM »

Building a "homemade" unit.  Will be close to 18" of free space from rear of firebox to rear of water jacket. Thinking of running the flue horizontally from the fire box out the back of the water jacket for a clean out but cutting a saddle inside the water jacket and bringing the flue pipe out the top of the stove.
 I want to grab the free heat off the flue to heat water so I am also thinking of wrapping the vertical portion of the flue pipe with 1" copper tube to bring my return water in thru.
 Would return water to top of jacket into copper coil heading down around flue pipe then turn the copper back up so it exits at top of water jacket.

Would then send water back to house from bottom of jacket to keep circulation flowing in tank.

Thought's?

Thx

i'd bring the return in through rear of water jacket at bottom, and direct towards burn. pull hot water from a vertical stand pipe, installed through bottom of water jacket. place opening of stand pipe aprox. 2/3 the way up. this way your water circulates and draws hottest water. leave the copper out of it, unless you make a copper heat exchanger for solar heating boiler water. that would allow dhw using boiler during summer with no fire lit