seeing how i dont trust anyone that says that, i just pulled the bottom off a 45000btu reznor gas heater to find the entire bottom including burner tubes covered in an inch of sawdust so fine it was like talc powder. Same for inside the heater where the air blows through. That would have made a nice fireball.......
"its fine -just turn it on"
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rickairmedic
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Naaaaaaaaaaaaaa but it would have made one hell of a dust cloud 
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Rick
.Rick
Charles (in GA)
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Very much the same as the guy who tried to sell me his old used/waste oil heater I found on Craigslist. He kept insisting it was working fine when he removed it from the building he sold three years ago, was adamant about that, he knew all there was to know about them and it was fine, yet the tank and fuel pump had been sitting outside with some of the openings on top upcovered............. and the combustion chamber had blistering on the outside where it had been overfired........... but its OK.
Charles
Naaaaaaaaaaaaaa but it would have made one hell of a dust cloud
Rick
the sawdust covering the burners wouldnt have ignited?
redsky49
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Fine particulates, dust - potentially very explosive!
Charles (in GA)
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So TRUE, just ask anyone who has ever been around a grain elevator, or a sugar mill in Savannah, GA.
Charles
HoosierBuddy
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My barn has a big wood burning fireplace in it.
I start a fire in it once or twice a year. Saturday was the day. I had a nice fire going with short pieces of 2X4's, plywood scraps, etc. and then threw in small shovel fulls of saw dust from under my table saw (maybe 1 cubic foot total).
It makes some very pretty fire balls when the dust hits the flame.
Yes...even HoosierBuddy does dumb stuff once a year. One of these days I'm going to lose my eyebrows. Until then, at least I get the sawdust off the floor at least once a year.
Phil
I start a fire in it once or twice a year. Saturday was the day. I had a nice fire going with short pieces of 2X4's, plywood scraps, etc. and then threw in small shovel fulls of saw dust from under my table saw (maybe 1 cubic foot total).
It makes some very pretty fire balls when the dust hits the flame.
Yes...even HoosierBuddy does dumb stuff once a year. One of these days I'm going to lose my eyebrows. Until then, at least I get the sawdust off the floor at least once a year.
Phil
oldgoaly
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It would have been a self-cleaning furnace!
I had a customer who said there furnace was giving him a headache with a little giggle. I knew something was up.... I get there and his wife was there about to laugh her **** off. There he is with his dust buster sitting on a folding chair down by the furnace. Let me turn it on they both said....no I've seen this before. The gentleman said and you can fix right? Yep, pulled the door, then burners, then the baffles in heat exchanger. So I ask about the headaches, well the lady of the house cracks up laughing and leaves. Well the gentleman says I'm the only one that got a headache from it. I replied I'll test this heat exchanger make sure there are no problems. Well a few seconds later he says if can keep the dirt from coming out that door won't hit me in the head when I'm cleaning around it. Well I lost it.... oh that was funny! So after I start to finish up putting things together, his wife comes back, he makes the comment about how happy he was to provide a good laugh. But he says "I want to what that furnace was doing when it whuumpss on" My reply "it wants to be the 1st self cleaning furnace" I clicked that old Singer/ Afco on just as quiet as can be, he had to stick his nose in there to see. His wife says "watch out for that door" and laughs, covers his head and rolls along the floor..... Needless to say one of the more memorable service calls I had.
I had a customer who said there furnace was giving him a headache with a little giggle. I knew something was up.... I get there and his wife was there about to laugh her **** off. There he is with his dust buster sitting on a folding chair down by the furnace. Let me turn it on they both said....no I've seen this before. The gentleman said and you can fix right? Yep, pulled the door, then burners, then the baffles in heat exchanger. So I ask about the headaches, well the lady of the house cracks up laughing and leaves. Well the gentleman says I'm the only one that got a headache from it. I replied I'll test this heat exchanger make sure there are no problems. Well a few seconds later he says if can keep the dirt from coming out that door won't hit me in the head when I'm cleaning around it. Well I lost it.... oh that was funny! So after I start to finish up putting things together, his wife comes back, he makes the comment about how happy he was to provide a good laugh. But he says "I want to what that furnace was doing when it whuumpss on" My reply "it wants to be the 1st self cleaning furnace" I clicked that old Singer/ Afco on just as quiet as can be, he had to stick his nose in there to see. His wife says "watch out for that door" and laughs, covers his head and rolls along the floor..... Needless to say one of the more memorable service calls I had.
Kevin54
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R6 Racer
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OK now I'm totally confused! 
Steve
foss
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wondered if it was just me.
Coach James
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Could you write a Cliff's Notes version of this as I really would like to know what you were describing.
Coach
