My friend Dick Hill, who will be 92 in October, has been working on a masonry stove for an apartment in his house.
He has enlisted the assistance of a professional mason to construct it and is presently waiting for the masonry to air cure for 30 days before firing it.
It will be heavily instrumented and data will be coming in the autumn.
We have been talking about the design for about four months.
I realize that this is not a hydronic unit, but most of you know him as the Godfather of Gasification Boiler design.
This is the kind of project that helps keep him going. There is a lesson here for us youngsters.
I keep meeting his "students" some of whom are now in their 80's.
He has enlisted the assistance of a professional mason to construct it and is presently waiting for the masonry to air cure for 30 days before firing it.
It will be heavily instrumented and data will be coming in the autumn.
We have been talking about the design for about four months.
I realize that this is not a hydronic unit, but most of you know him as the Godfather of Gasification Boiler design.
This is the kind of project that helps keep him going. There is a lesson here for us youngsters.
I keep meeting his "students" some of whom are now in their 80's.