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[tulenutn2o]

I am now in the second season of my homemade wood stove, and have gotten most of the bugs worked out of the stove itself. I am using it with a water to water heat exchanger for my hot water boiler for the house and another w/w heat exch. for the hot water heater. This part of the system is working good, but I am also using a home built water to air exchanger for my shop with a small blower behind it to move air across the shop floor. I used a series of 3/4" baseboard unit heaters with the aluminum fins stacked vertically to make a unit measuring 4' x 4'. I am not getting much heat from this and was just wondering what others are using for a "radiator unit". I am maintaining my water temp at the unit so I don't think that is the problem.

I built my unit using a small tractor radiator(15x15 or so) and a 12v car radiator fan. Toasty! In my office and bathroom, I use a ford truck heater core in an old ambulance heater box with 12v blower fans, Toasty there too!

[Zaney444]

fella that works on my snowmobiles heats his shop with a few old dirtbike radiators with sheetmetal shrouds and small squirrel cages.. feels like you walked in front of a small salamander.. i was impressed how well it works..