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    What is this?
    It appeared disconnected in the crawlspace. I have been doing inspections for almost 3 years and have never seen this one before.
    The house was built in 1928. Any help?







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    Default Re: Ok, Help me out. (Pictures)

    Looks like an old "Octapus". May have been a coal or oil fired gravity furnace.


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    That looked just like the one in my 1st house. It was probably a old coal gravity furnace. Mine was converted to gas and had a standing pilot that would cook 10 hot dogs with the amount of heat it put off .


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    Default Re: Ok, Help me out. (Pictures)

    Here's an oil-fired one from a fixer home last week.

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    Thanks!
    I knew I was gonna feel stupid but I just had to know..


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    Default Re: Ok, Help me out. (Pictures)

    M.
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    Default Re: Ok, Help me out. (Pictures)

    It looks like an old droid from a galaxy far away.

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    Richard, your picture looks like a Beckett burner with a cad cell. Memories working on them are flooding my mind.


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    Richard,

    I hope that you pointed the possible asbestos containing insulation.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevin Luce View Post
    Richard, your picture looks like a Beckett burner with a cad cell. Memories working on them are flooding my mind.
    Not sure Kevin. It hadn't been serviced since 1997 and would only run for about a minute before tripping the reset button. My clients were rapidly losing interest in this place...one of the worst I've ever done. They walked...no, make that ran.

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    Richard,

    I hope that you pointed the possible asbestos containing insulation.
    The white stuff all over the ducts? Yes Jon, kind of hard to miss that!


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