1950 Rayburn No2 Solid Fuel Potential

[loskie]

I am realistic in my expectations just thought it a shame to scrap it. It is in good nick and works well although I am not sure about the boiler since it was disconnected shortly before we bought the house when gas central heating was fitted.

 

Theres only a very slight nick in the door where the oil feed goes in.

 

I cannot imagine that the boiler was filled with sand as it should have been so may be easily re connected.

 

Annoyingly the oil ran out last night and I am loathed to fill the tank cos I don't want to be left with too much oil when we remove it. Min order is 500l.

I will also have a 1200l Plastic Balmoral Oil Tank surplus to requirements. Not that old.

She's not at all happy the Mrs

Many thanks all for your comments keep em coming.

cheers

Loskie

Edited February 26, 2013 by loskie

[agg221]

If you just want it to go to a good home and put a few quid in your pocket, I think you will achieve this easily. The other practical point is moving it - these things are very very heavy and you'll need rollers. When I bought my Royal I picked it up near Nuneaton in a Ford Escort van. It was already outside on a pallet (covered in snow) and was loaded using a teleporter, but I unloaded it using an engine hoist. I could just about stand it back up on my own, and rolled it on short lengths of scaffold pole.

 

It's currently dismantled and when I finish the extension it will be going for re-enamelling in a nice dark blue, then it will be installed.

 

Alec

[loskie]

Well luckily I managed to sell my Rayburn to a self sufficient family got £90 for it which I thought not too bad. He is converting it back to solid fuel.

He did also manage to make use of other stuff coming out of the house which would have been skipped otherwise so good for him and good for me to see the stuff used and not pay for disposal.

The 1200l plastic oil tank was also sold yesterday for £100 so that has created a bit more space too.

[agg221]

Excellent, that's a good result I think. It will keep him out of of trouble for a while if nothing else!

 

Alec

[fergusonforestry]

As requested:

 

we are about to embark on a renovation of part of our cottage. With this we will be removing a Rayburn no2 Oil Fired Stove. This would have started life as a solid fuel model and has since been converted to oil. An old farmer I visited has one the same and told me he fitted his new in 1952.

We have been in this house 6 years and as the Rayburn no longer heats water or radiators (village is now on mains gas and combi boiler fitted) it just heats our kitchen and is used for cooking. We only have it on from Nov to April Makes great roast tatties.

Has a backboiler which is disconnected but I guess could be reinstated.

Could be re converted back to solid fuel.

I am going to be cooking on gas and fitting a used Stockton 7 multifuel stove to the new kitchen living area in its place as a heat source.

 

Would this Rayburn be likely to be able to be sold and if so what kind of price could one reasonably expect?

Works fine and looks ok for 60 odd yr old. and located in SW Scotland(not remote).

thanks for looking at my first post although I have used this forum a while being an avid firewood vulture as a mate recently called me.(we already have another woodburner in the rest of our cottage)

Polite and constructive advice welcome!!

cheers

Loskie

 

wow that takes me back! that's identical to the one we had in the house when I was growing up ours was solid fuel, coal and peat (not much firewood up in the Hebrides ) did the hot water too, I remember my dad pushing it on rollers 80 yards up a slope to the house and getting it in through the doors by himself! was in much worse nick than that and did us years!

[difflock]

I suspect the fitter (farmer?) brought the pipe round the front, and "nicked" the edge of the door to get the pipe in, thereby not interfering with the metal of the range itself.

Otherwise a pointless exercise.

Dammn, too slow in typing, bugger!

As best I can judge from the photo.

Dad converted 2 solid fuel ranges over 40 year ago, from solid to wick fed oil burner unit.

Both still working.

[loskie]

From what the neighbour tells me he can remember his sister as a young girl coming here for her tea. The Rayburn would have been installed as a coal burner in early 1950s then converted to oil in the early 80's by the same family.

Not a farmer but good guess. Was a moudie man.

 

That's a mole catcher if you are South of the border.

 

I must admit I am missing the rayburn but not the oil bill and slow controlability. It has actually been an interesting excercise in social history.

[difflock]

Perversly the wee place we bought as a retirment project.

Had a brand new oil fired AGA fitted about 20 year ago.

U nfortunately I would have been more interested in the solid fuel range that was wrecked out with a sledge (cos I found the scrap bits round the back o the barn)

Seriously considering converting to wood fired, if at all possible/practical as I do not wish to keep the bugger in oil, on a megre pension.

m

[openspaceman]

Perversly the wee place we bought as a retirment project.

Had a brand new oil fired AGA fitted about 20 year ago.

U nfortunately I would have been more interested in the solid fuel range that was wrecked out with a sledge (cos I found the scrap bits round the back o the barn)

Seriously considering converting to wood fired, if at all possible/practical as I do not wish to keep the bugger in oil, on a megre pension.

m

 

I've done some servicing on an old kerosene aga, it's not in use now because modern 28sec kerosene isn't clean enough and seems to foul the wicks too quickly.

 

Anyway given that the air requirements are similar for any heat output whether wood or oil (apart from wood generally needing more excess air) it strikes me the burner section lends itself to being replaced by a burn pot as use in 10-25kW pellet burners.

 

Have a look at something a chap I knew (he's gone very quiet on the stoves scene but Nat is a lecturer in industrial design in Italy) designed,

 

http://worldstove.com/wp-content/gallery/events/img_0927.jpg

 

A bit of ingenuity with a fire break, a horizontal auger and a small hole in the side and a centrifugal fan...

 

To avoid spoiling the aga consider using a wedge on the door like Alex English does to run his gasifier into a conventional stove.

 

 

It would be necessary to have very dry, screened woodchip just from massflow considerations.

 

I'm told agas use about 40 litres of kerosene/week (average 2.5kW??)so as long as you can burn 60kg of dry wood through a week that should give similar performance, a lot more if it's heating radiators.

[pie eater pete]

I'm told agas use about 40 litres of kerosene/week (average 2.5kW??)so as long as you can burn 60kg of dry wood through a week that should give similar performance, a lot more if it's heating radiators. Pretty sure I use more than that in a week. Turned into a chore tbh keeping mine fed. Always get people with the same"oo you don't pay for gas tho"