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2015 MHA Annual Meeting

Firetube demo


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Setting up in the rain.


Jim Schmitz, Axel Schmitz, Firetube





Modular, reconfigurable, firebox on left
Ortner prefab modular heat exchanger, and Ortner precast plate, on right.


To the far right is a hot water section. In front of it is a convection section.














Ganged dampers.





Cooktop











Cool truck.





View of the damper plates.





Plumbing.











Firebox.





Ortner plaster applied to the precast plates.








Plaster samples./


Ganged dampers.
Hot water and convection heat exchange do not happen at the same time. It is either one, or the other.

















Bathtub is almost ready for water.


Explanation of damper scheme.








Lighting the fire.











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Packing up.




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See also:

2014 Photo Report

2013 Photo Report

2012 Photo Report

2011 Photo Report

2010 Photo Report

2009 Photo Report

2008 Photo Report

2007 Photo Report
2006 Photo Report
2004 Photo Report
2003 Photo Report
2002 Photo Report
2001 Photo Report
2000 Photo Report
1999 Photo Report
1998 Photo Report
1997 Photo Report

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