Steel King furnace

[homemade]

I have a Steel king that my parents have used as an add on to the furnace for the past 26 years. Heats 1800 sqft pritty good. The "Draft blower" is a lil weak for only 500cfm on ours. I'll get some pics and so on tomorrow. I do have an original manual for mine. If you want a copy and i can scan and email it. just pm me

 

[FlyingDutchman]

kick butt work on the firebrick!

 

[pook]

& a fool with a tool is still a fool!

 

[Diesel nut]

I have a Steel king that my parents have used as an add on to the furnace for the past 26 years. Heats 1800 sqft pritty good. The "Draft blower" is a lil weak for only 500cfm on ours. I'll get some pics and so on tomorrow. I do have an original manual for mine. If you want a copy and i can scan and email it. just pm me

Yea that would be great! I'd appreciate the info from the manual. I've put in a total of 43 fire bricks in this thing. Couldn't believe I had to use that many. I got this furnace for free from a neighbor who had a Central Boiler owb installed and said it use a lot more wood than this did.

 

[pook]

Once upon a time SK built the furnace,wrote the manual which UL then read the manual & followed the manual to test the furnace as originally built. Now the furnace has been changed from original design which UL never tested so in the event of a mishap, the ins co. may opt out of coverage. Great to read the manual, better to watch & monitor the performance of the altered furnace....good lux

 

[ultimate buzz]

Steel King

Steel King is still in business here in Wisconsin, but they primarily make storage racks and storage systems for larger companies. They have two manufacturing facilities, one in Stevens Point, and one in New London, Wi.

You might want to contact them and see if manuals or parts are still available, or if they know of anyone that still makes parts for their product lines.It might be worth a try. www.steelking.com -ken

 

[Diesel nut]

Well more progress was made....

 

[Diesel nut]

 

[Diesel nut]

This thing should have no trouble flowing enough air. It's probably a little over kill but oh well. The stainless steel tube is 2" diameter. Got about 30 ft of it for free from a neighbor that works at AE diary in Des Moines. I made an adjustable louver type cover to control air flow into the secondary tube. I made this thing so I could take it apart and reassemble in side the fire box in a minute. It's real easy to hook up. That way if I wanted to change something it wouldn't be so difficult to do. Farm boy engineering at it's finest.

 

[Diesel nut]

 

[Diesel nut]

Here's some action shots.....

 

[Diesel nut]

I'm thinking I may not have enough secondary air cause I still get some smoke out of the chimney. It is sitting outside and only has 4ft of double wall stove pipe on it so maybe its not an accurate trial run, I don't know. I'm thinking I might change the main tube at the bottom of the grate and set it off the grate a few inches to get it in the coals more. It seems that the air is not being heated enough unless I have the fire going good. Maybe I need more preheating tube, I don't know. I'll have to do some brainstorming. If anyone on here has any more ideas that would be great.

 

[pook]

cant see but i assume ure bringing air from outside the stove? dont forget u need to build up a bed of coals for the pipe on the grate to really get hot & then make sure the configuration doesnt result in air coming out of the intake tube instead of getting sucked in.
.Avoid adding holes pointing down,i think, i saw a stove with that design where a guy added a blocking piece because the downholes were notching the wood with the jets. Ideally, the area of the holes should match the area of the intake?

http://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/forums/viewthread/60405/ this has info on homemade modifications

 

[Diesel nut]

Once upon a time SK built the furnace,wrote the manual which UL then read the manual & followed the manual to test the furnace as originally built. Now the furnace has been changed from original design which UL never tested so in the event of a mishap, the ins co. may opt out of coverage. Great to read the manual, better to watch & monitor the performance of the altered furnace....good lux

Got the go ahead from my insurance agent to install this modified Steel King furnace so no worries on them opting out on coverage.

 

[pook]

great for ins. got a glass on the door for pics taken?

 

[Diesel nut]

Working on it.

 

[pook]

http://www.onedayglass.com/ best prices on ceramic glass ithinx. hope u dont need an airwash for keeping the glass clean

 

[Diesel nut]

I finally got this baby installed a few days ago and she's up and runnin. I can't get much if any secondary burn out of this thing. I changed the way the pipes run through the fire box and made two of them out of 1-1/4" cast pipe. Used the 2" stainless I had laying around for the burner tubes. They draw in air really good but don't light up much that I can tell. I'll get some pictures on here of what I got.

 

[CrappieKeith]

It may be that the air your drawing in is too cold to start with.

 

[laynes69]

You don't have enough secondary air to burn up the smoke. That firebox is huge and it will require alot more tubes and air to make it burn cleanly. Especially when the wood heats up and starts to offgas. Here is a picture of my firebox before I installed our furnace. You need a series of tubes that are spread out below the baffle.