Been meaning to post this for awhile. I've had the monster Reznor hanging heater for several years but somehow never got off my fanny to get it installed. It's a BIG one - 165K input BTU.
It turns out that New Hanover County is pretty easy-going on issuing homeowner's permits so I got them (electrical and mechanical which includes gas piping and the exhaust) and now I'm off and running.
There's no natural gas here in the neighborhood so I'll plumb the gas thru the wall and stub it out so the gas guys can bring the bottle.
So it's now well hung as you can see. I used a 5/8" piece of all-thread and made an angled bracket to carry the weight on the truss. The smaller pieces are to stabilize the whole deal.
I WISH I knew how to caption the pics! As it is I'll try to post 'em now and you'll have to try to fit them to the appropriate pic.
Anyhow - some of the hanging system, one of the electrical (you can see the box above the heater and the Greenfield coming down - there's 3/4 conduit all the way into the box). Then there's some of the gas piping installation. Mostly I'm showing off that even at my age I still have a Ridgid tool - several, actually. Left over from my plumbing days. I don't do enough to permanently mount the pipe vise but the hoist arm works pretty well. I don't know how you would do this job without the tools (rent 'em I guess).
Anyhow - that's the project for now. Tomorrow I'll finish up the plumbing and at least start piping the air compressor across the shop so I don't have to snake a line all over the place to do anything.
Dan
It turns out that New Hanover County is pretty easy-going on issuing homeowner's permits so I got them (electrical and mechanical which includes gas piping and the exhaust) and now I'm off and running.
There's no natural gas here in the neighborhood so I'll plumb the gas thru the wall and stub it out so the gas guys can bring the bottle.
So it's now well hung as you can see. I used a 5/8" piece of all-thread and made an angled bracket to carry the weight on the truss. The smaller pieces are to stabilize the whole deal.
I WISH I knew how to caption the pics! As it is I'll try to post 'em now and you'll have to try to fit them to the appropriate pic.
Anyhow - some of the hanging system, one of the electrical (you can see the box above the heater and the Greenfield coming down - there's 3/4 conduit all the way into the box). Then there's some of the gas piping installation. Mostly I'm showing off that even at my age I still have a Ridgid tool - several, actually. Left over from my plumbing days. I don't do enough to permanently mount the pipe vise but the hoist arm works pretty well. I don't know how you would do this job without the tools (rent 'em I guess).
Anyhow - that's the project for now. Tomorrow I'll finish up the plumbing and at least start piping the air compressor across the shop so I don't have to snake a line all over the place to do anything.
Dan
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