1988 Snyder General Furnace

[dragon17332]

Hey i have this same furnace and we have a problem with it and want one exactly the same but dont know were to buy it

[mechanicwarrior20]

it seems to struggle a bit when it starts up. You could install a larger start capacitor to give that old motor an extra kick.

[spatsbear2]

@mechanicwarrior20 There is no capacitor on the motor. It is a 2 speed motor, and it was on low.

[theprivateer100]

This thing also says it's an arcoaire

[BFMVpwnage5168]

@darky10121987 i'd also rather have good spelling :D

[ncatina]

I have a small furnace just like this, a Carrier 58 SS, to heat 1100 sq ft.

[gusherb94]

So how's your furnace holding up this winter? I do get a kick out of how the burner's start out lazy then they ramp up after ignition. I could have sworn I commented on this video last year but I guess not.

[spatsbear2]

It is holding up just fine.

It will only ramp up after the flame detector senses the flame. If it doesn't detect any flame it shuts the gas off.

[Tabby266]

Uh-can people look at the video of my furnace? Its 30 years old at the minimum, and it makes funny noises sometimes. Anyways-nice furnace!

[bait28]

@Tabby266 sure, i'll see what i can do.

[67tr876]

can you plz show your basement wean its done plz

[relimes]

Your furnace is on fire!

[spatsbear2]

How is it on fire?

[xctome]

Snyder General was what ICP used to be,who now makes

tempstar,ArcoAire is the brand name,not the installer,in the video i saw arcoaire that is the brand name. P.M. be back.

[xctome]

it is an ArcoAire! is it an upflow or downflow?

[relimes]

Jeez that blower startup scared the crap out of me, lol.

[ncatina]

LOL! I thought it was just me.  Why are those pings so loud?!

[itscool1968]

you know to replace the co detector every 5 years right?

after that they start to faulse alarm and arnt as realiable

[1995bisquick]

since the minimum furnace efficiency was 78% on 1992 to present units i assume all units made since have a draft inducer.

[BlueSpawn]

The technitian told me that my furnace is a 50% efficiency furnace and that compatible heat exchangers are generally no longer manufactured for this kind of furnace. I guess then you have an 80% efficiency updraft furnace then?

[spatsbear2]

76% efficient.

[comfortableguy01]

Only when it was new!

[relimes]

Why is there no PVC piping instead of an exhaust pipe the chimney?

[BlueSpawn]

Hi! Your system looks fantastic. I also have a Snyder General 1988 gas furnace with a broken heat exchange, but a technitian told me that I would have to replace the entire furnace and that I can't replace the heat exchanger seperately. However, you have a new heat exchanger, but kept the original furnace. Can I convince my technitian to do the same? I'd really appreciate your advice. Thanks!

[spatsbear2]

The heat exchanger was replaced about 3 months before I had purchased the house by the previous owners.

I am unsure of the cost either...

But yes, it can be changed. I don't see any reason why it couldn't be.

[vwestlife]

We used to have one of those electric zapper air cleaners, too, but it was so much work to wash out the metal filter every month that we gave up on it and just started using disposable fabric-type filters instead. We also used to have a 1971 American Standard gas furnace that made a really massive noise when the burners lit up -- imagine the "Whoosh!" sound of a gas stove burner lighting up, magnified by five large burner racks in the furnace!

[dburrigh]

Very nice furnace.

I just got a Goodman furnace put in last year, it's 100,000 BTU. When it kicks on you hear the draft inducer fan, then the burners come on hard (they sound like a farrier's forge) then the main blower initially come on high and cycles down as the house warms up. It's hidden up in the attic, so all the ductword comes from there (vents are in the upper walls.)

[matrixcodex]

We will be firing up our coal furnace soon, its been really chilly lately :P

[EmersonCollie]

Cool, I need to replace the igniter in mine. It went out right at the end of last winter so I will replace it and make a video of mine starting up.

I like start up of the blower motor. "Click, Bong! Wom, wom, womwomwomwomwom" :D

[Maxxarcade]

That's one hot igniter! Cool blower noise too.

That's the first time I've seen a heat vent under a kitchen cupboard. Does it warm your toes while you're doing the dishes?

[spatsbear2]

Oh yeah :)

[hdyudu]

i up load a video my furnace starting up soon

[hdyudu]

glowplug igniters beats standing pilot light

hands down my sparks but it still a glowplug

sense a spark is a kind of hot glow

[retrochad]

That's quite a system! That ignition system is interesting to see. My house has no central heating...it was originally heated by individual gas-fired heaters in each room. I now have a Carrier heat pump/electric heat and AC window unit for the living room and electric radiators for the other rooms. A lot of the old houses here still do not have central systems and use gas room heaters for heat and swamp coolers for AC.

[dan9788wax]

What you just saw in 10:02 through 10:10 those knobs are dampers. They let control the heat or a/c going through duct work into the different rooms.

[spatsbear2]

Yes, that was the word I was looking for. At the time it escaped me...

[coondogtheman1234]

Nice furnace, in the last house I lived in I had a natural gas fired furnace similar to this one but with no AC and it was forced hot water on a 3 zone system each level of the house had its own thermostat, the furnace itself was half the size of this one and it was gray in color and it had a small blower on the stack pipe to went the gases from the combustion, Startup: first the water pump starts then the vent blower starts then the gas turns on. it heated the house well

[Sharkie626]

Cool stuff Spats! ;)

[Trance88]

Nice furnace. It looks newer than 1988 for some reason.

Carlie is such a cute cat! You should do a video dedicated to just your cats!

[coolbluelights]

I live in a mobile home, and we have a 2004 gas furnace that blows downward into ducts under the floor, it's got this blower that gives the flame more air so it burns yellow rather than blue I should make a demo of it some time soon^^

[damusician]

my dad has a downflow furnace too. the ductwork run through the concrete slab. right next to the furnace is a tubular duct that comes out of the concrete floor and runs through the attic. i'll get a vid of it someday as well as a tour of the attic.

[damusician]

oh yeah, the rheem furnace has a draft inducer and spark ignition too. i pretty hard to hear the main blower over the draft inducer, but it moves a lot of air.

[damusician]

thanx 4 vid! whenever i go to my dad's house during the cold season, i'll try to vid his 1986 rheem imperial 80+ downflow furnace. it's not original to the house when it was built in 1971, but it was rigged up with the original ge ac unit 'til it was replaced in 1999 with a bryant 2 high efficiency ac unit. remember on my fan vid when i showed the round ac vent to emersoncollie? well, that was the same house along with the kenmore washer. btw, that used to be my room 'til my parents split up.

[burtoncharlessmith]

Wow, that looks brand new. I have a much newer gas furnace. It's hidden in the attic though. It's like a 3 stage rocket when it starts. First, a chimney fan starts. It has to determine that the chimney isn't blocked. Then, the burners ignite, then the fan motor starts. Off course, we live in the deep south, so we are still using a/c.

I wish we had basements here. We live on the coast, so it's sandy soil and the water table is high. Basements RULE!

[1944johndeerel]

cool i shoul get my grandmothers boiler it was made in 1948 by the american boiler works. it is still in constant use! it uses two big circulator pumps with big ge motors! one for the basements 2 ceiling hung forced air heaters and the other for the radiators upstairs! the boiler has cool looking guages on top of it!