what to do with old waterbury stove?

[jere]

Hi I am looking for ideas on what to do with this old stove. Scrap it, sell it, get it working again, other? From what I can find it is from the 1940s, and is a wood disintegrator in use (looking at the massive exhaust pipe ). It is cylindrical and about the size of a refrigerator. I will try to upload pictures later, having technical difficulties at the moment. Posted about this on another message board and I have pictures on the second page http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=243974

 

[fbelec]

that looks like the steam boilers that we had when i was young. does it have pipe tappings?

 

[jere]

Not that i have seen, where would they be? It is also out in the garage that is completely separate from the house.

 

[BrotherBart]

Scrap city.

 

[valley ranch]

I'd like to see it. Some stoves have a nice look to them....some look like junk. I'll check back to see if you get a picture up. Have a great day.

Richard

 

[BrotherBart]

I'd like to see it. Some stoves have a nice look to them....some look like junk. I'll check back to see if you get a picture up. Have a great day.

Richard

Just click on the link in his post and see it.

 

[BrotherBart]

Here tis:

 

[rdarby]

maybe it can be sold as modern art...?

 

[Osage Orange]

Scrap it and use the cash towards a bigger splitter?? LOLOL It looks like a matter transportation device from the Industrial Age LOLOL

 

[Defiant]

Time machine???

 

[valley ranch]

That look like a nice stove for where it's being used.

Richard

 

[Dune]

So it's not really a boiler?

 

[Jags]

I'll bet that is one hungry, hungry hippo.

Looks like a hunnert bucks in scrap to me.

 

[NHcpa]

I would repurpose it. Load the bottom door with ice and the top door with beer.

 

[Prof]

I used to have an old gravity furnace like that. I burned 6 cords plus 4 tons of coal--it was indeed a very hungry hippo. The house was either cold or VERY HOT. I burn 4 cords now with an EPA stove and don't have the temperature swings. I do have a soft spot in my heart for the old heater though. I inherited the house it was in, and it was the only furnace that was ever in the house at that point--about 60 years of loyal service.