Handy man's workshop and laboratory . fixtureshould be by rubber hose, and the entire apparatus occupiessuch small space that it can be easily stowed away in a smallspace.—78 REPLACING A FIREPOT People having homes equipped with a fireplace heater haveprobably found that after a few years service their heater losesits efficiency as a heat producer. In the case of a heater havingan iron firepot, this is usually due to the iron being burnt out,causing it to lose its heat-retaining qualities. HANDY MAN S WORKSHOP AND LABORATORY 345 To replace the old firepot with a new one, it is necessary toput
Handy man's workshop and laboratory . fixtureshould be by rubber hose, and the entire apparatus occupiessuch small space that it can be easily stowed away in a smallspace.—78 REPLACING A FIREPOT People having homes equipped with a fireplace heater haveprobably found that after a few years service their heater losesits efficiency as a heat producer. In the case of a heater havingan iron firepot, this is usually due to the iron being burnt out,causing it to lose its heat-retaining qualities. HANDY MAN S WORKSHOP AND LABORATORY 345 To replace the old firepot with a new one, it is necessary toput in a new ring to hold the pot in place, due to the warpingof the old ring from heat. To have a stove repairer do this work is expensive, as thepractice is to take the heater apart in sections by removingthe bolts A (Fig. 287), to admit the ring B, which is of suchdimensions as to prohibit its admission in front of heater. Thisring is provided with recesses to engage the projections or pins Con the under side of firepot sections Fig. 287—Replacing a firepot The writer has found that by cutting through the ring B, asshown in the bottom plan view, so as to break joints with thefirepot sections D, the two sections of the ring may be set in placethrough the door openings, and the firepot sections set in theirrespective positions one after the other, beginning with the sectionD, which bridges the breach in This method has its advantages over the old way in giving anequally strong construction, and being far more economical, asit does not necessitate the removal of the heater.—3 LET THE CLOCK OPEN THE FURNACE DRAFTS Most furnaces are nowadays arranged so that the drafts canbe operated from the living rooms above, but still require the 346 HANDY MAN S WORKSHOP AND LABORATORY personal attention of some shivering member of the household,before dawn on cold winter mornings, if the house is to becomfortably warm by breakfast time. Undoubtedly much irrita-bility and fatigue
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