[pianotech] OT- Winter

[Carlos Ralon]

Ron,
Sorry for your discomfort, but I live near Washington, D.C. and these guys 
have been blowing hot air up our butts both winter and summer. Stay warm.
Carlos Ralon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 12:32 PM
Subject: [pianotech] OT- Winter


>
> Today, we're being treated to a bit of "light " snow, at 9°F. Total 
> accumulation of said "light" snow through tomorrow is forecast at 6"-11". 
> At least this one isn't accompanied by the "light" breeze that can and 
> does also relocate mobile home parks in this part of the country.
>
> Of more immediate interest, to me at least, is the furnace. It's an 
> outdoor unit, and the combustion air blower started making bearing self 
> destruct noises late Friday afternoon (naturally). The part was put in the 
> queue to be ordered Monday morning first thing. They're made right here in 
> Wichita, but the replacement part has to come from Las Vegas - naturally. 
> So sometime around 4:00-5:00 am Monday, the blower died. No blower, no 
> fire. Oh boy! Yesterday was fairly pleasant, so I spent the day cutting up 
> a bunch of firewood, and jury rigging a heat source. The furnace in the 
> attached shop still works, so I hung a squirrel cage blower in a normally 
> closed window into the utility room so it blew through and into the 
> kitchen, where I stationed a big Vornado fan to blast it into the living 
> room. Jacking the shop heat up to 76° and turning on the fans eventually 
> got the house up to about 63° with some fine tuning of fan speeds and 
> direction, which is about where it is now. Not bad, considering! The 
> furnace part ought to be in tomorrow so if my fans keep working, we're 
> fine. So far, this is way nicer than the week we spent without electricity 
> in similar temperatures one winter after an ice storm took the power lines 
> down all over the area.
>
> As I observed to my HVAC professional neighbor, "Furnaces never break down 
> in July". At least not at this latitude. He agreed.
> Ron N
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