SB: Re: AQUAFIRE wood-fired heater

["Trkstr" <trkstr@hotmail.com>]

Some place online is a hot tub with a heater called the snorkel (I think).
In 1990 I saw this in action at the state fair.  It was being sold as a
portable water heater used for portable hot tubs.  The tubs were large
animal water troughs and heated in about 20 minutes, very fast.

I used to have the diagrams for building your own, but have no idea where it
is.  Anyway, this would work as a back-up source and works well.

It looked like a mini aluminum wood stove that you filled, fired and then
sent in the tub/whatever with the air vent exiting just above the
water-line.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Willing" <willing@mb.sympatico.ca>
To: <strawbale@crest.org>
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 5:29 PM
Subject: SB: AQUAFIRE wood-fired heater


> > BTW, has anyone any experience of direct wood-fired water heaters?
> > There's a place in the 'States that makes one called the Aquafire.
> > (Hot Products Inc.?) Looks good, and a natural for solar assist. I've
> > considered the woodstove loop concept, but it's a mod to the stove,
> > will affect its operation (I like to run it as clean as I can), a
> > plumbing challenge, and of no use for many months of the year.
>
> Aquafire, I just discovered, is off the board as they overextended
> themselves trying to expand and collapsed instead. <sigh> Anyone know
> of an alternative wood-fired water heater (as opposed to a wood stove
> loop system, cookstove water jacket etc.)?
>
> -=s
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