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What a neat article to find.
Hampton Industries in PEI built them for a short bit, but didn't have the capital investment to keep up to the orders for them.

Wow, nice article, I've seen some of your youtube video's, I liked the one were you were at Dick Hills house and he was going over his different stoves, and then showed the positive vs negative air pressure in the house.

tom in maine said:

Cleaning office. This was in some Dick Hill archives.
Very nice design. Simple and durable.

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Some of these were sold in my area. I produced some drawings and fabricated one, fired it for awhile but never continued with it. Family responsibilities took first place. A friend used my drawings and had many years of good performance from his

A lot of those boilers died an early death due to poor storage. They were quire expensive as they were built quite well but unfortunately folks resisted the high price so many installers used open vented oil tank for thermal storage. Unfortunately oil tanks run open rust rapidly and many of these tanks didn't make 5 years. Five hundred and fifty gallons of rusty water in the basement makes for an unhappy homeowner. I also have run into many concrete storage tanks that were built into foundations. They usually were poorly insulated and many leaked. The bummer is if the storage was done properly, and the owner had a basic understanding of the equipment and could do basic repairs they could get a lot of years on them.

The other big issue is that many dealers installed these units but few dealers continued to maintain them as many went out of business. After a few years, many techs didn't know how to work on them and once the units got unreliable homeowners, swapped back to conventional boilers. There was quite a stretch where there would be several units a year listed on Uncle Henrys for free to be removed.

I have always liked that design, the Rocket stove burn path seems like it would make a nice design for a wood furnace..would love to take a crack at building one some day...