The 2008 cache, set two: the Heat Resonator

Five photographs from 2008, published here first: the water-fuel heater Stan Meyer was building when he died, its controller, its project badge and the switchgear behind it.

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What was shown

Episode 8: The Steam Resonator Episode 8: what the steam resonator is and how it works, from Stan's own memos.
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The Meyer estate, reel 1, transcribed The estate film opens on this rig: "the original home heating unit that Stan was working on prior to his death".
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Denver 1997: the lecture, transcribed Denver, May 1997, at 54:37: "a heat resonator for Europe. That's 90% completed."
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Stanley Meyer to Philippe Vandemoortele, 23 October 1997 October 1997: the plans for a "WFC Heat Resonator Test Site" in Grove City.
The rig A steel frame on castors, the controller housing on top and insulation under it. Below, a stainless box of six vertical tubes, the tubular array the faceplate names, with stainless pipework, flanges, a blue expansion vessel and a brass valve.
End on The same rig from its end, in a basement corridor: the green and blue housing, the expansion vessel, the pumps and pipework, and two pressure gauges at the foot.
The controller "WFC Heat Resonator Tubular Array", "FlameLess Central Heating System", and "Copyright © 1997 By Stanley A. Meyer". Behind the faceplate, two boards of red and blue parts and a panel: Resonator Alarm, Pump Volume Flow, Resonator Reset, Power.
WFC Project 427-DA The Water Fuel Cell mark, three flames with a TM, over "JOB 38:22-23" and "JESUS CHRIST IS LORD"; under it, "Water as Fuel". On Stan's list, 427 DA is the Steam Resonator Manual.
The switchgear Inside the green housing: AEG breakers marked L1 and L2, a motor-protection switch labelled "Pump" by hand, relays, a Red Lion counter and a numbered terminal strip.

Set two of the 2008 cache. Five photographs taken in David Holbrook's basement in 2008, before the estate sale broke the collection up, and published here for the first time. A new set goes up every month.

David is the son of Charlie Holbrook, Stan Meyer's friend and his assistant in the mid-1980s, and one of the names on the archive's register of the people who knew him.

The Heat Resonator

This set is one machine: the flameless central heater Stan was building in his last years. His memos call the device the Steam Resonator; his 1997 literature calls it the WFC Steam Resonator, "trade named Heat Resonator". At Denver in May 1997 (54:37) he listed it first among five projects: "One is what we call a heat resonator for Europe. That's 90% completed." In October 1997 he was writing to Philippe Vandemoortele about a "WFC Heat Resonator Test Site" in Grove City (the letter). He died in March 1998.

The rig was still standing when the estate was filmed. Reel one of the estate film opens on it, with its cover off: "This here is the original home heating unit that Stan was working on prior to his death. It's a steam resonator." The frame, the green and blue housing and the six-tube array in these photographs are the same machine.

How the steam resonator works, from Stan's own memos, is episode 8.

What is in this set

The rig. A steel frame on castors with the controller housing on top and insulation under it. Below, a stainless box of six vertical tubes, the tubular array the faceplate names, with stainless pipework, flanges, a blue expansion vessel and a brass valve.
End on. The same rig from its end, in a basement corridor: the housing, the expansion vessel, the pumps and pipework, and two pressure gauges at the foot.
The controller. The faceplate reads "WFC Heat Resonator Tubular Array / FlameLess Central Heating System" and "Copyright © 1997 By Stanley A. Meyer", with a display and a three-button menu. Behind it are two boards of red and blue parts and a panel marked Resonator Alarm, Pump Volume Flow, Resonator Reset and Power.
The badge. "WFC PROJECT 427-DA" over the Water Fuel Cell mark, three flames with a TM, "JOB 38:22-23" and "JESUS CHRIST IS LORD", and "Water as Fuel" under it. On Stan's own list of memos, WFC 427 DA is the Steam Resonator Manual and WFC 427 2DA the Industrial Steam/Heat Resonator.
The switchgear. Inside the green housing: AEG breakers marked L1 and L2, a motor-protection switch labelled "Pump" by hand, relays, a Red Lion counter and a numbered terminal strip. The breakers and the motor starter are German-made, for a heater Stan said was meant for Europe.

Help wanted

If you worked on the Heat Resonator, tested one, or hold the 427-DA manual, the archive would like to hear from you.

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