Recent content by skeer

Hmm, gotta admit I expected more opinions from this place. Oh well, thanks to you guys who did.

Understood.. yeah I did put a CO alarm down here. The reason I decided to angle the exhaust run ever so slightly downhill (towards the exit) was because I found rust when I removed the setup. The hole for the exhaust fan inside the cabinet was, for whatever reason, only about 80% of a full...

So the issue with this stuff (it is Hart and Cooley) is that it could crack and leak CO2 yeah? I had to re-route that exhaust run to allow the new RA duct to clear. I couldn't find anymore of that thin walled plastic exhaust pipe (now I know why, lol) So I went with the metal I could find...

Lots of good info in this.. let me address the parts I can; I should have prefaced with the fact that this isn't a new house to us.. I've been working with that existing setup for 8 years now. I just finally got the time to start doing something about it. And yeah we've been burning wood every...

I mean.. I'm glad to know this but replacing the furnace isn't going to happen. The vent is plumbed directly outside the house.. not into the chimney.

From what I'm reading further on the blowers.. seems the intention is to ensure the main blower doesn't overpower the wood furnace one. So you are expected to run both blowers during a wood heat call.

Requisite background info: So I am in the process of re-plumbing the wood furnace tie in that we inherited from the previous owners. The furnace in question is an Englander 28-3500, manual link here. So the previous/original owners of this place had it plumbed incorrectly from the manual...

So here’s the result, enlarged the stepped down hole in the hub using a carbide burr. Just enough to mallet it onto the shaft and replaced the previous set screw with a longer bolt through the end.

You got me thinking about the original, it bolts to the shaft from the end. I might not need a shim if I can drill a hole in the dead center of this hub. Hmm

Assuming you have to register to even see that particular forum. I'll do the needful later and see what's what on there. I paid a grand total of $12 for this and the three handles.. I'll find a way to shim this and it'll be a great upgrade over the previous slot machine-style.

So I started drilling, and long story short I pulled the pin's leftovers out with a bit I thought was the same OD as the Pin was/is. Some heat, some WD and percussive love and the hub fell off of the shaft. I think I got pretty lucky in this.. too bad my judgement was off on it fitting the...

Was afraid of this.. And I’m betting the shaft is hardened steel.

Well sh!t.

It def appears to be a thin roll pin. But the hole doesn’t go totally through so.. why? You can’t drive it out. I need to look again maybe there’s threads I’m not seeing last night.