Some of you may remember a post I made a year ago when I brought 4 of these boat anchors home from the coast of Maine.
I sand blasted and primed these last fall and jugged them in the garage where they sat for the winter![Roll Eyes :rolleyes: :rolleyes:](/talk/styles/default/xenforo/smileys/rolleyes.gif)
Well this summer I had some paint mixed and I sprayed them on a calm day outside, I am very happy with the result. The WORST part was getting them upstairs, well two good friends and a couple of Tony's Pizzas and all 4 are up. This is the second to largest of the bunch (which are all relitivly small), we estimated this to weigh around 300 pounds, and they hold a suprising amount of water.
All of these are on the second floor as I have in-slab radiant on the first floor. They are piped reverse-return supplied by a single 3/4" zone valve from my home-made pri/sec hybrid setup. Each radiator is supplied by dedicated 1/2" copper branches. There is little flow to the radiators and it takes roughly 4 minutes for the return from this loop to heat up. This radiator CRANKS out the heat, the high mass and high water volume is incredible, as the dead men knew, CI radiators are very forgiving in water flow.
Comments, questions, sarcastic remarks welcome!
TS
![LOVE Cast Iron! LOVE Cast Iron!](https://www.hearth.com/talk/data/attachments/118/118831-75fef91f4cc68eca1b4710a22acea777.jpg)
I sand blasted and primed these last fall and jugged them in the garage where they sat for the winter
![Roll Eyes :rolleyes: :rolleyes:](/talk/styles/default/xenforo/smileys/rolleyes.gif)
Well this summer I had some paint mixed and I sprayed them on a calm day outside, I am very happy with the result. The WORST part was getting them upstairs, well two good friends and a couple of Tony's Pizzas and all 4 are up. This is the second to largest of the bunch (which are all relitivly small), we estimated this to weigh around 300 pounds, and they hold a suprising amount of water.
All of these are on the second floor as I have in-slab radiant on the first floor. They are piped reverse-return supplied by a single 3/4" zone valve from my home-made pri/sec hybrid setup. Each radiator is supplied by dedicated 1/2" copper branches. There is little flow to the radiators and it takes roughly 4 minutes for the return from this loop to heat up. This radiator CRANKS out the heat, the high mass and high water volume is incredible, as the dead men knew, CI radiators are very forgiving in water flow.
Comments, questions, sarcastic remarks welcome!
TS
![LOVE Cast Iron! LOVE Cast Iron!](https://www.hearth.com/talk/data/attachments/118/118828-f32743f962124cffc239c72101520860.jpg)
![LOVE Cast Iron! LOVE Cast Iron!](https://www.hearth.com/talk/data/attachments/118/118829-61e2cc44600e54c7eb6a3d4677ca6aa9.jpg)
![LOVE Cast Iron! LOVE Cast Iron!](https://www.hearth.com/talk/data/attachments/118/118830-0bd4f7d68d7c70b680b14ceae5eaa11f.jpg)
![LOVE Cast Iron! LOVE Cast Iron!](https://www.hearth.com/talk/data/attachments/118/118831-75fef91f4cc68eca1b4710a22acea777.jpg)