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**houseisland** · December 29th, 2007, 03:47 PM

Guess where I just got back from:

Arrived back to snow and a dead furnance. Spent the morning pulling the guts out of the furnace and carting them off to a repair shop. If I don't wear gloves my fingers will stick to the keyboard.

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**slgrieb** · December 29th, 2007, 05:46 PM

Tralfamadore is just exquisite at this season!

**houseisland** · December 29th, 2007, 06:52 PM

Originally Posted by slgrieb

Tralfamadore is just exquisite at this season!

Good guess, but wrong.

And it's not planet of the pizza wedges, either.

Just put the re-built guts back into the furnance. Things are starting to warm up a little.

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**NooNoo** · December 29th, 2007, 06:55 PM

Shame about the furnace...especially after the lovely weather you must have encountered. My sister wants to go there and has booked tickets for April 08, it all seems very reasonable

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**houseisland** · December 29th, 2007, 07:03 PM

Originally Posted by NooNoo

Shame about the furnace...especially after the lovely weather you must have encountered.

Well for a Canadian the weather was like mid to late spring. T-Shirts, shorts and sandals for me. But some of the locals were wearing ski jackets. T'was unseasonably cold.

Originally Posted by NooNoo

My sister wants to go there and has booked tickets for April 08, it all seems very reasonable

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Reasonable, yes. And fun. The bus rides were an adventure.

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**Guts3d** · December 29th, 2007, 07:52 PM

Glad to hear that the furnace is now working!

**xpuser357** · December 29th, 2007, 08:44 PM

Curious what parts did you rebuild, Blower assembly? Ignition system?etc.
You forgot to mention Pellet stove,forced air furnace, convection furnace,
Electric furnace, oil furnace. the list goes on and on

**houseisland** · December 29th, 2007, 09:05 PM

Originally Posted by xpuser357

Curious what parts did you rebuild, Blower assembly?

Yes, but not rebuild, rather have rebuilt -- I lost my gear puller some time ago so I wouldn't have been able to get the pulley off. Bushing on the pulley side was completely gone. Disintegrated on the evening of my departure, so I was able to turn the furnace off. It was not a surprise. Shut the water off to the house so that there would be no surprises.

Originally Posted by xpuser357

Forced air furnace

Yes. Natural gas.

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**xpuser357** · December 29th, 2007, 09:27 PM

just a 2 cent tip, Do not tighten belt till you have a tight string for a tune

like a guitar. You should be able to push on center of belt and move it about 1/2 an inch. Belt too tight will erode bearings, sounds like you got lucky enough to catch it before it tore up your shaft.

**houseisland** · December 30th, 2007, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by xpuser357

just a 2 cent tip, Do not tighten belt till you have a tight string for a tune

like a guitar. You should be able to push on center of belt and move it about 1/2 an inch. Belt too tight will erode bearings, sounds like you got lucky enough to catch it before it tore up your shaft.

Yeah.... I learned this lesson a long time ago, the hard way, thinking "Hmmm... it must be like a fan or alternator belt in a car..."

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**houseisland** · December 30th, 2007, 04:25 PM

Originally Posted by Guts3d

Glad to hear that the furnace is now working!

Thanks. It was an interesting night and morning. The inside of the house was only a few degrees above freezing. I could see my breath in the air.

Warm is good.....

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**houseisland** · December 30th, 2007, 04:27 PM

Originally Posted by slgrieb

Tralfamadore is just exquisite at this season!

And now from our HVAC side excursion....
we shift back to the main focus of the thread:

And it's not planet of the samosa heads, either.

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**clauded** · December 30th, 2007, 07:05 PM

all right i give up,where in the world did you go?pity on a poor old guy lol,

**houseisland** · December 31st, 2007, 12:08 AM

Originally Posted by clauded

all right i give up,where in the world did you go?pity on a poor old guy lol,

Well... there were lots of Québécois there.

And some more of these brazen folks.... looking like escapees from a prehistoric planet in another thread somewhere.

Could it be a valeur rat plot?

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