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    Concept for DIY Furnace

    Hi Tom, There is no doubt in my mind that you are right, fire bricks are the way to go, in a climate where firing is long and frequent. In...
    Post by: Snail, May 18, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Concept for DIY Furnace

    Hi Tom, I may be able to borrow a potter's thermocouple for a bit. What sort of temperatures were you measuring? Some of my wood is has been 60...
    Post by: Snail, May 17, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Concept for DIY Furnace

    Hi Tom, I have read Dick's papers and have downloaded his patents. I haven't fully mentally digested them yet, nor a heap of combustion science...
    Post by: Snail, May 16, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Concept for DIY Furnace

    HI Tom, I still mean to have the flue gases going up and then down. All Rocket Mass Heater stoves have the flue gases going up and then down....
    Post by: Snail, May 14, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Concept for DIY Furnace

    [ATTACH] Hi Tom, I'm not sure if I understand you correctly. Did you mean the external chimney in my diagram or the internal riser/heat-exchanger...
    Post by: Snail, May 14, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Concept for DIY Furnace

    Hi Tom, Thanks for your comment. Could you possibly expand a little more? I'm puzzled at why my design would be worse than a straight rocket mass...
    Post by: Snail, May 14, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Concept for DIY Furnace

    Hi Hobartian, Thanks for pointing out the bad link, it's fixed now. I'm no artist but here is a picture. I know I'm looking at trying something...
    Post by: Snail, May 12, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    My progress in building a wood fired boiler based on the design by Richard C. Hill

    Hi Hobartian, Great job as usual. Was your original construction becoming really decrepit or is this new work mainly your perfectionism in action?...
    Post by: Snail, May 12, 2013 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Concept for DIY Furnace

    I was inspired by Hobartian’s construction of a Dick Hill Stick Furnace, discussed in this forum....
    Thread by: Snail, May 12, 2013, 18 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Please Help - Hydronic Heating Using the Ceiling as a Radiant Heating Panel

    Thanks mhw, The folk at greenbuilding are pretty scornful about staple-up it would appear. It may be that since we don't have such a high delta-T I...
    Post by: Snail, Sep 23, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Please Help - Hydronic Heating Using the Ceiling as a Radiant Heating Panel

    Thank you for your replies. There appears to be an almost religious schism between those who believe staple-up is acceptable and those who swear that...
    Post by: Snail, Sep 19, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Please Help - Hydronic Heating Using the Ceiling as a Radiant Heating Panel

    I am painfully doing up a late 1950‘s house. The construction is fairly standard New Zealand practice for the time, timber frame, weatherboard,...
    Thread by: Snail, Sep 19, 2012, 8 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    gasification links and Tom Reed's research

    Hi, I downloaded 156.pdf from Dan Holohans site. It looks great! Thank you for these links. Your link is broken but a search within...
    Post by: Snail, Sep 18, 2012 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Condensing scrubber for wood boiler.

    Thank you for your reply Peakbagger. Regarding your points: It's my understanding that the majority of gasifiers use fans, so the main change here...
    Post by: Snail, Oct 3, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Condensing scrubber for wood boiler.

    Benjamin, Point taken about the excess air. However, isn't that possible to counter by increasing the amount of moisture added in the saturator?...
    Post by: Snail, Oct 3, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Condensing scrubber for wood boiler.

    Tom, The only nasties in the condensing water will be the ones that would otherwise have gone up the stack. Isn't it better to have them where you...
    Post by: Snail, Oct 3, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    Condensing scrubber for wood boiler.

    Many large-scale thermal water heating furnaces recover the heat from the flue gases by means of a condensing scrubber. In this type of system, the...
    Thread by: Snail, Oct 2, 2011, 14 replies, in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    My progress in building a wood fired boiler based on the design by Richard C. Hill

    Hi Hobartian, Guess that Spring is sufficiently advanced by now and you won't need your furnace for a while. Any update on how it has been going?
    Post by: Snail, Oct 2, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    My progress in building a wood fired boiler based on the design by Richard C. Hill

    Anyone seen this page? http://www.afabusa.org/aldehyde_combustion.php It hints at sophistication that is beyond anything I have been able to find...
    Post by: Snail, Aug 18, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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    My progress in building a wood fired boiler based on the design by Richard C. Hill

    A thermostat is not a pressure valve. Pressure regulation is handled elsewhere. The worst-case scenario is that the thermostat sticks shut and the...
    Post by: Snail, Aug 18, 2011 in forum: The Boiler Room - Wood Boilers and Furnaces
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