Old Lennox Furnace

[54regcab]

Lennox Furnace from the 1950's, thought you guys might think it's cool.

[Strkout499]

Looks like it has seen some rollout

[5thRoot]

Is that furnace being replaced or still kicking strong?

[54regcab]

Still kicking strong.

[bustedknuckles]

Takes me back to my first years in the field. Those beasts were new then, energy hogs, but easy to work on, quality consruction, I would'nt be surprised if they could last a century. Most common call was thermocouples and delayed ignition(cast iron burners needed cleaned). Evrybody knew how to take care of belts-you had to change em on your car too. Not so sure about rollout, the hx was cast and realy heavy,most likley delayed ignition. Heck, I'm about the same age and have scorch marks around my orifices too. Thank you for the trip down memory lane 54regcab

[mark beiser]

I haven't seen a lowboy like that, but I used to regularly see some Lennox and Carrier upflow furnaces, from the early 50's, that had the blower in the bottom, with the heat exchanger and evaporator coils side by side, with separate duct connections out of the top of them so you could have separate heating and cooling duct systems, or just transition them both into the same duct system.
They had a lever that would move a damper to direct airflow from the blower through either the heating or the cooling side.
It's been a good 13-14 years since I've seen one, wish I had some pictures.

[bustedknuckles]

Don't know about now, but, you used to see some crazy looking Lennox stuff, you could buy modular. Crawled under a house one time and I was confronted by a gaspack! Modular heating section, modular cooling section, all vented, modular blower section, all sized for the application. Any mod. to fit the space. And it worked, and worked well.

[OldSchoolMech]

What's that child looking guy on the blue label? Is he from Lennox back in the day.

[bustedknuckles]

That's the sylized service man of the day, or Dave Lennox. Cool, clean, Brilcreamed service machine!

[mike3]

Don't know about now, but, you used to see some crazy looking Lennox stuff, you could buy modular. Crawled under a house one time and I was confronted by a gaspack! Modular heating section, modular cooling section, all vented, modular blower section, all sized for the application. Any mod. to fit the space. And it worked, and worked well.

Landmark Series
Replaced several hx sections in horizontals. Was pretty quick

[MalcolmHinkleRefrig]

What's that child looking guy on the blue label? Is he from Lennox back in the day.

Lennie Lennox :-)

[bustedknuckles]

Wow. Hiyer Folks, I'll fix it in a snap!

[gravity]

Looks like a nice simple furnace.

[gravity]

does it have the old draft hood on it?

[brian.cornell]

Worked on one of those a couple weeks ago replaced the thermocouple and checked it out other than the thermocouple and dirty burners it was good to go qouted them a price just for higher efficiency and left it in operation those things are bulletproof

[54regcab]

does it have the old draft hood on it?

I didn't notice.

[AtticAce]

What's that child looking guy on the blue label? Is he from Lennox back in the day.

Lennie Lennox as seen here http://abelonsite.wordpress.com/2012...-time-gone-by/

[mike3]

Speaking of old Lennox units, who remembers the in-wall unit, no blower, millivolt system. Sorry I don't have a model number. If memory serves me it was rated at 50,000.

[firecontrol]

Love the old oil can sitting in the blower compartment. Reminds me of the tube of Lennox grease you'd find in the Lennox units with the greased bearings on the blowers with the screw down caps.

[lennoxkid]

My dad Ken Kracht worked as a photographer at Lennox Furnace Company (Marshalltown, IA) from about 1948-1957, Here are a couple of ad photos from about 1948. Also shown is Bud Moen art director/ad man at Lennox. Ken is to the left in both shots, Bud is to the right on the set shot of a unit in a crawl space.