"Michael" (mhanczyc)
09/10/2020 at 09:25 • Filed to: None
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"Michael" (mhanczyc)
09/10/2020 at 09:25 • Filed to: None | 6
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Installed my craigslist spec garage heater last weekend
Works like a charm, perfect burn pattern, got everything installed up to code
The serial number reveals it was manufactured in December 1979
Up next: Insulating!
MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s
> Michael
09/10/2020 at 09:33 |
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They are fucking fantastic. I love having a heated garage.
hillrat
> Michael
09/10/2020 at 09:36 |
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Sweet. If I had a heated garage, I might just move in there.
Brickman
> Michael
09/10/2020 at 09:37 |
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Looks exactly like the ones in my elementary school cafeteria. Probably still in use today.
vondon302
> Michael
09/10/2020 at 09:37 |
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Nice!
I'm jealous.
Nibby
> Michael
09/10/2020 at 09:43 |
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nice nice, can it melt human flesh?
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Michael
09/10/2020 at 09:45 |
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harden up princess
:D
SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
> Michael
09/10/2020 at 09:54 |
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Trivia Time: Reznor heaters like that were invented by George Reznor. His Great Grandson is Trent Reznor, also known as Nine-Inch Nails.
Think of that while you stand in a blast of hot air this winter.
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Michael
> SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
09/10/2020 at 10:37 |
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Heck yeah!
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Michael
> Brickman
09/10/2020 at 10:37 |
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Might be the same one!
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Michael
> Nibby
09/10/2020 at 10:38 |
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I...hope not?
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Michael
> pip bip - choose Corrour
09/10/2020 at 10:49 |
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That’s exactly what all my chemicals and stuff did in the garage last winter. Hardened up.
My hydrostat tractor had some water contamination and the return to the hydro pump literally froze and had to be melted every time I wanted to blow snow.
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Nibby
> Michael
09/10/2020 at 11:42 |
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we’ll find out soon enough
VincentMalamute-Kim
> Michael
09/10/2020 at 11:54 |
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Kink in the gas line is triggering my OCD. (Reality - if everything is working, leave it alone).
You’re lucky - I’d like heat in my shop but I’d have to run a few hundred feet of gas line to it. Did you plumb the gas or contract it out?
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Michael
> VincentMalamute-Kim
09/10/2020 at 11:59 |
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Oh that’s from earlier, that’s a kink in the 110V line where I added another outlet for a short run to the heater.
Did the gas up myself, 60' of 5/8ths L-copper pipe from my tree to the furnace
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Michael
> Michael
09/10/2020 at 12:00 |
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Also added a sediment trap after reviewing the code
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Michael
> Michael
09/10/2020 at 12:06 |
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Nom De Plume
> Michael
09/10/2020 at 12:50 |
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You are adapting quite well. Going for a new furnace would’ve been an incalculable mistake.
MM54
> SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
09/10/2020 at 15:05 |
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The Reznor in my garage just got a little cooler. Even if this isn’t true I am going to pretend it is.
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MM54
> Michael
09/10/2020 at 15:06 |
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Very nice! I have a similar (newer) Reznor in my garage and it’s one of the best things I’ve done to the house/garage. Any particular reason you went with copper for the gas line as opposed to black pipe?
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SBA Thanks You For All The Fish
> MM54
09/10/2020 at 15:08 |
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I’ll stand behind this Fake News-- which (twist ending!) is actually true.
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Michael
> MM54
09/10/2020 at 15:14 |
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The rest of the house was copper already so it blended in better :D
Also I had some interesting corners and runs and didn’t want to deal with anything with fittings behind drywall that could leak
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VincentMalamute-Kim
> Michael
09/10/2020 at 17:22 |
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Nice. I misto
ok the yellow Rome
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for yellow gas line.
shop-teacher
> Michael
09/10/2020 at 19:28 |
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Very nice! I am jelly!
Urambo Tauro
> Michael
09/10/2020 at 20:32 |
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Not too familiar with these units, but judging by its age I expect that whatever it lacks in efficiency, it probably makes up for in simplicity, quality, reliability,
and serviceability.
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Michael
> Urambo Tauro
09/11/2020 at 07:20 |
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I don’t know if the labeling has changed in more recent years, but BTU’s out / BTU’s in on the label = 80%, which is pretty solid. I’ve seen new ones that are 82% or so, and old ones that are 77%, so I feel like it’s a decent efficiency. Only way to get into the 90's seems to be using a HVAC furnace and ducting.
And yes it’s stupid simple which is lovely, and the burners haven’t rotted out in 40 years, nor have the casing or exchangers.