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what should I look for or tests can I do when looking at a used furnace
« on: March 23, 2015, 05:14:54 PM »
Hi, I'm new to OWF  but have stolked a indoor basement boiler for forty+ years. I'm thinking of trying a outdoor system and was going to look at a moreheat 200 unit thats about 6-7 years old. I was wondering what tests I can do and what to look for when I go to see this unit.
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Re: what should I look for or tests can I do when looking at a used furnace
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2015, 06:04:31 PM »
Look for pitting in the steel,in the fire box, around door jams etc, visible signs of rusting, maintenance and wiring issues that need to be addressed, look around the property, does the seller maintain his other equipment?
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Re: what should I look for or tests can I do when looking at a used furnace
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2015, 06:29:04 PM »
Do you mean heatmor 200css?
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Re: what should I look for or tests can I do when looking at a used furnace
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2015, 03:00:20 AM »
Good catch Jwood I didn't catch that!
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Re: what should I look for or tests can I do when looking at a used furnace
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2015, 03:19:10 AM »
Just never heard of a more heat  :thumbup:
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Re: what should I look for or tests can I do when looking at a used furnace
« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2015, 03:25:24 AM »
Me either but there are a lot of knock off stoves out there.
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Re: what should I look for or tests can I do when looking at a used furnace
« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2015, 04:43:01 AM »
Very good point
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Re: what should I look for or tests can I do when looking at a used furnace
« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2015, 04:59:40 PM »
Hi guys,
 I'm just going by what the seller e-mailed me, he didn't say if it was a css model and I haven't made the trip down to look at it yet. He said it was a (his spelling) heatmore 200 that was 6-7 years old. He has it installed inside a 60X80 buildingand that it heats a adjacant shop and a pool. So the stove has spent its life indoors but may have been fired year around, he has gone to a pellet boiler.
He said it had a fan on the door and stainless interior piping. Does that sound right??
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Re: what should I look for or tests can I do when looking at a used furnace
« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2015, 07:47:16 PM »
Should have a fan in a compartment below the door and a water cooled door if its only that old what is he asking as far as a price?
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Re: what should I look for or tests can I do when looking at a used furnace
« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2015, 05:51:10 PM »
$4500 OBO
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