Uploaded May 2011 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Originally published in 2011, then removed for a while, here it is back for your enjoyment.
A Torrid #15 from Geo Diener & Company of Chicago, Illinois. This is a sheet metal workers furnace dating from about 1920 or so. The top plate and the carry handle with it's bail are missing. In use, soldering coppers would have been placed inside the furnace through the side opening. The top opening would either have had a plate in place or a large cast iron crucible. The crucible would have held molten lead or solder. Note that the "generator" is merely plumbers pipe that is heated by the four outlets on the right of the cast iron manifold.
Shown here operating on Coleman fuel, the furnace was designed for regular unleaded gas. The manufacturer also claimed the unit could also be operated on "coal gas".
You can view another of these here at YouTube at this link:
youtube.com/watch?v=E0t0bQDv5QA
Originally published in 2011, then removed for a while, here it is back for your enjoyment.
A Torrid #15 from Geo Diener & Company of Chicago, Illinois. This is a sheet metal workers furnace dating from about 1920 or so. The top plate and the carry handle with it's bail are missing. In use, soldering coppers would have been placed inside the furnace through the side opening. The top opening would either have had a plate in place or a large cast iron crucible. The crucible would have held molten lead or solder. Note that the "generator" is merely plumbers pipe that is heated by the four outlets on the right of the cast iron manifold.
Shown here operating on Coleman fuel, the furnace was designed for regular unleaded gas. The manufacturer also claimed the unit could also be operated on "coal gas".
You can view another of these here at YouTube at this link:
youtube.com/watch?v=E0t0bQDv5QA
