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    Let's see your combustion chambers!

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    Post by: stokes79, Dec 15, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Bringing boiler and storage back online

    Thanks everyone I will look into shutting off autofill at least during wood season!
    Post by: stokes79, Dec 9, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Bringing boiler and storage back online

    Tire gauge is reading same as boiler and no water came out I thought I read on here several places 5% expansion I put in 8% to be safe
    Post by: stokes79, Dec 7, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Bringing boiler and storage back online

    They are bladder tanks and I don't know the psi. I have two tied into storage tank totaling 80 gAllons. So if I drain ten gallons and keep it above a...
    Post by: stokes79, Dec 7, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Bringing boiler and storage back online

    I just bled roughly three gallons off manually with pressure relief valve that was dripping a bit and it dropped to above picture
    Post by: stokes79, Dec 7, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Bringing boiler and storage back online

    So it's getting cold enough to warrant the wood boiler and last season got great results with top of storage tank temps at 200 f and bottom near...
    Thread by: stokes79, Dec 7, 2012, 14 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Epiphany for Greenwood, Greenfire, Seton, etc... Induced draft theory vs creosote and moisture issue

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    Post by: stokes79, Dec 7, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    New skins on the Greenfire

    Glad your still rippin!!!!
    Post by: stokes79, Dec 1, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Epiphany for Greenwood, Greenfire, Seton, etc... Induced draft theory vs creosote and moisture issue

    I burn green wood in my Greenfire. It deals with it. I have a tall house so lots of draft. I open the ash pan cover on startup and run draft...
    Post by: stokes79, Dec 1, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Horizontal Tank - Performance Data

    I got a 1000 gallon propane tank and framed a box around it then stapled radiant aluminum to the inside studs all around framed plywood tunnels to...
    Post by: stokes79, Nov 6, 2010 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Exhaust fan/hood

    Cheapest way I found is a range hood suspended a couple feett above the boiler and provides good lighting too
    Post by: stokes79, Nov 6, 2010 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    fineally one fire 5 days of hot water 500 gallons of storage

    here are my experiences so far this summer. I have a greenfire boiler and 1000 gallons pressurized storage. I have to make three fires to bring my...
    Post by: stokes79, Jul 8, 2009 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Storage Tank Insulation Feedback Please

    Thanks for the comments, just wanted to add it is in my shop which is located under the living space of my house, so the current uninsulated tank is...
    Post by: stokes79, Mar 21, 2009 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Storage Tank Insulation Feedback Please

    Getting ready to insulate my 1000 gallon propane tank. Here are the options I have come up with from this bulletin board past threads and some...
    Thread by: stokes79, Mar 20, 2009, 23 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    how to tell with seton boiler if you are in gasification?

    How do you tell if you are getting gasification with a seton type boiler? From what I have read on here a lot of the other boilers have a second...
    Thread by: stokes79, Mar 14, 2009, 3 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Most Efficient way to get storage water to zones

    I don't know if this makes a difference, but right now I have three manifolds, two staple up and one in concrete slab, then my indirect DHW tank the...
    Thread by: stokes79, Mar 5, 2009, 2 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    circulator control help please

    I just got my boiler (greenfire 130k) up and running, connected to 1000 gallon propane tank and here is my question: I fill the boiler and it charges...
    Thread by: stokes79, Feb 26, 2009, 3 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    storage tank temperature probes?

    Hello going to be setting my storage tank today and starting to plumb it in here is what I have on each end of the tank welded 2" weldulets one for...
    Thread by: stokes79, Feb 17, 2009, 2 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    backup system

    Have been searching on here for a while for a backup system. I just need it to run the boiler circulator in a power outage which happens frequently...
    Thread by: stokes79, Feb 14, 2009, 3 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    float material that can survive 200+ F degrees indefinitely

    you could use a blown glass ball in a wire mesh net, japanese fisherman have been using them for centuries and it they are thick enough they are...
    Post by: stokes79, Jan 31, 2009 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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