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Lets start with what looks like early 60's gas!

 

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Now for the Electric!

 

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[a440]

<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: medium;">These are fantastic Peter!</span>

<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: medium;">Thank you for uploading them!</span>

<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: medium;">Brent</span>

 

[hydralique]

Very Cool . . .

I love the little graphics of fabulously coiffed ladies cooking away! Whatever happened to Preway, I can't recall ever having seen one anywhere.

 

[mattl]

Wow, a TRIPLE rotisserie!! Who'd a Thunk!

 

[polkanut]

Preway was based in Wisconsin Rapids, WI, and went out of business in the early 1980's.  They also produced a dishwasher with a built-in gas burner to heat the water, and they also did fireplaces, and fireplace inserts.  Rich "Sudsmaster" has a Preway fireplace insert, but I don't know if it is still installed.  I have also seen Preway camping stoves that are almost a clone of Coleman stoves.

 

[sudsmaster]

Yes, I have a Preway fireplace insert, and it's still installed. It's there to stay. It works well enough, and the look of it really fits the rest of the fireplace, I think.

 

[polkanut]

Rich,

I know you were having an issue or 2 with the blower, did you get it resolved?

 

[sudsmaster]

The problem wasn't with the blower, it was adjacent sheet metal that was rattling quite a bit.

 

As I recall I successfully addressed it with some simple cushioning as well as bending some internal thing sheet metal by hand into a position where it wouldn't contact the fan housing.

 

I just checked it - the fan is acceptably quiet now.

 

 

 

[polkanut]

Thanks for correcting me, and the update.  Glad you like the insert.

 

[sudsmaster]

In fact thank you. The mention of it made me fire it up again, as it was unseasonably rainy and cold last night. I confirmed that the fan is much quieter than before. It did a good job of warming the study and adjacent rooms.

 

Over the winter I tried placing thin (1") fire bricks on the floor of the insert, but with the grate it seemed to raise the fire too high. This time I cleaned out the ashes and removed the fire bricks, and let the cast iron grating set on the thick steel floor. Seemed to work fine. I think the grating will keep the highest heat off the steel floor, esp if I let a layer of ash cover the floor. And the original parts drawing shows a similar grating with no fire bricks.

 

The blower fan motor seems to be in very good condition. I did lube it up with SAE 20 a couple of months ago, as well as clean and lube the brass bushings at either end of the squirrel cages.