Kevin. McCreary
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I checked out the SS 370 at Jon Don yesterday. The heat exchanger on it was different than anything I have seen before.
They called it the thermal well or something like that. Thom told me that instead of using a typical water box, that they use a 17 or 18 gallon stainless waterbox with the blower and engine exhaust from the 20 hp kholer into a fin and tube type exchanger that is in the 17 gallon water box. It pegged the gauge on the machine at 260+ from a cold start in three minutes flat. I didnt stick around too long to see how well it maintained that, but it seems to me that if it makes 17 gallons that hot it should stay that hot for awhile.
They called it the thermal well or something like that. Thom told me that instead of using a typical water box, that they use a 17 or 18 gallon stainless waterbox with the blower and engine exhaust from the 20 hp kholer into a fin and tube type exchanger that is in the 17 gallon water box. It pegged the gauge on the machine at 260+ from a cold start in three minutes flat. I didnt stick around too long to see how well it maintained that, but it seems to me that if it makes 17 gallons that hot it should stay that hot for awhile.