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All-Purpose OWF Discussions => General Outdoor Furnace Discussion => Topic started by: butchtn on April 08, 2010, 06:15:44 AM

Title: home made water heater exchanger
Post by: butchtn on April 08, 2010, 06:15:44 AM
i am looking for plans or info and pics to build a water heater exchanger thanks
butchtn
Title: Re: home made water heater exchanger
Post by: willieG on April 08, 2010, 05:33:06 PM
i made what you might call a swimmingn pool heater for my domestic water...50 foot coil of 1/2 inch copper inside a pipe. my OWB water flows through the pipe and the domestic water through the 1/2 inch copper. a couple of valves to bypass the water heater and when the OWB is running i shut the breaker off for the hot water tank I guess you could say i have "on demand" hot water. as long as there is wood in the stove i have hot water
Title: Re: home made water heater exchanger
Post by: butchtn on April 09, 2010, 05:07:06 AM
thanks a million for the reply how did you go about putting the copper inside the pipe i am assuming that it was apex pipe  got any pics s
thanks butchtn
Title: Re: home made water heater exchanger
Post by: willieG on April 09, 2010, 07:26:52 PM
thanks a million for the reply how did you go about putting the copper inside the pipe i am assuming that it was apex pipe  got any pics s
thanks butchtn
i used soft copper and wrapped it around an 6 inch pipe, when i let it go it sprung out to about 8 inches and i put it inside a 12 inch. i used copper fittings to screw into the tank and converted to 1/2 inch and drilled the little stops out so i could slid the fitting over the pipe..then soldered them and away i welnt (after welding in the ends..and adding the OWB feed and return)

give the link a try

http://outdoorwoodfurnaceinfo.com/forum/MGalleryItem.php?id=9 (http://outdoorwoodfurnaceinfo.com/forum/MGalleryItem.php?id=9)
Title: Re: home made water heater exchanger
Post by: markc on April 14, 2010, 07:12:31 AM
check out the water to water heat exchanger in the cataloque on my web page it works very good and priced right page 15, model gef-2 ,90,000 btu/ hr  $ 334.00
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