Before and after-courthouse update

[Green Mountain]

I posted on this before but today was factory start-up day for the new boilers.

http://www.benncool.com/images/270_DSCN1646.JPG

This is the boilers after the asbestos removal process.

http://wsm.ezsitedesigner.com/share/scrapbook/17/177239/abestos_gone.JPG

Ta daaaaa. Nothing to it 2 new boiler take its place.

http://wsm.ezsitedesigner.com/share/scrapbook/17/177239/After.JPG

Quality goes in before the name goes on.

http://wsm.ezsitedesigner.com/share/scrapbook/17/177239/Nameplate.JPG

[Edited by benncool on 09-09-2004 at 03:58 PM]

[swat]

Nice... So how much did ya get from scrapping out that old one? Did you hang onto the doors?

[Freezeking2000]

Great looking job you can be proud of!

[contactme_11]

Very nice work.

[Green Mountain]

Originally posted by swat
Nice... So how much did ya get from scrapping out that old one? Did you hang onto the doors?

We are in a little town up in the mountains. The nearest scrap yard is 40 miles away. It was just not economically feastible to scrap it. Our town land fill will take scrap metal at no charge. This is were it went.

I would have kept a lot of this 1936 stuff. It was older than me!! (me 1944:))
I saved a brass tab that said "cold" this was attached to a control chain that you would pull to open a damper to fire up the coal. And a piece of the coal auger. And a clinker rake.

Unfortunately there is just no room to save crap that I would have liked to have saved over the years.

[contactme_11]

I can't really see clearly in the first pic, was that a steam, gravity, or hot water loop system before?

[Green Mountain]

Originally posted by contactme_11
I can't really see clearly in the first pic, was that a steam, gravity, or hot water loop system before?

It was steam. Orginally it was coal fired but some where along the line it was converted to oil.

Part of the project was to convert some of the old radiator from steam to hot water. This is an historic building so they wanted to keep the old look.

[rich pickering]

Nice job. Any problems with the old pipe, or did you replace it all?

[contactme_11]

Originally posted by benncool
This is an historic building so they wanted to keep the old look.

I don't blame them, I love old cast iron radiators. I grew up in an industrial city woth a ton of apartment buildings, and they all had them (mostly steam). I always get a really guilty feeling when I have to scrap them now. I wish more people would reuse them.

[grasshopper]

Very nice job!

[Green Mountain]

Originally posted by rich pickering
Nice job. Any problems with the old pipe, or did you replace it all?

All the piping was ripped out and replaced with copper. There are now 11 zones instead of one Bang on-Bang off thermostat :)