American Road Equipment Co Firebox

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First time new member here. Please let me know if this goes into a different forum.

We have an American Road Equipment Co firebox style fireplace. The model looks to be a IF40R and is a 36 in size. The house was built in 1989.

From my research, this company did a very limited run of a Heatilator style firebox, ours was serial number 338. They mostly did heavy equipment until it was dissolved.

I am struggling to find any resources, references or manuals for this. Seeing if anyone on here has knowledge of these. There’s an inlet with two openings that have blowers. No switched so I’m guessing some type of thermo sensors.

Any info/help on this is greatly appreciated!

 

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Code should have required that the blowers have a switch for servicing. This is a safety issue.

 

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Code should have required that the blowers have a switch for servicing. This is a safety issue.

Thanks, I kind of figured… wondering if anyone knows where to find literature and more info on these fireboxes or knows of these.

 

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The dampener is broken inside the firebox. There’s a rod that connects to the dampener plate that broke off so it doesn’t close all the way.

With a firebox like this, could I put one of those top chimney mount dampeners? Like the one attached. I also attached an image of our fireplace.

 

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The dampener is broken inside the firebox. There’s a rod that connects to the dampener plate that broke off so it doesn’t close all the way.

With a firebox like this, could I put one of those top chimney mount dampeners? Like the one attached. I also attached an image of our fireplace.

And I’d so, can I mount the pull chain to the metal box and maybe seal the mounting screws with high temp caulk. Or would there be a better location or way to mount the pull chain.

 

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What would it take to repair the broken damper rod?