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    I personally think these antique arches are pretty neat! And they can be upgraded to be very good rigs. Or old 3 x 10 King arch has preformed well with AUF, AOF new pans and insulated single front door.Can boil right along at about 120-130 gph.
    Hope someone buys those old arch castings in the original post!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Woody77 View Post
    It says champion evaporator company hudson ohio.
    From the little bit of info I found on line champion was the original name of G.H Grimm. If anyone actually knows please enlighten me.
    Considerably more info on the Champion Evaporator and the G.H. Grimm Manufacturing Co. can be found at:

    http://maplesyruphistory.com/2019/02...ufacturing-co/
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    Quote Originally Posted by DrTimPerkins View Post
    Considerably more info on the Champion Evaporator and the G.H. Grimm Manufacturing Co. can be found at:

    http://maplesyruphistory.com/2019/02...ufacturing-co/
    What a great find. I just spent several hours browsing through the posts on that site.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fisheatingbagel View Post
    What a great find. I just spent several hours browsing through the posts on that site.
    Thanks for checking that site out and thanks to Tim for sharing that link. I'm the owner, researcher, and writer of that site and a regular reader of mapletrader.com as well. I'm always happy to talk maple history and glad that folks in the industry are taking a peak at the site. If you have any questions feel free to shoot them my way.

    Matt

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    That site is pretty cool. I just spent about an hour and will spend more time there. Great web site.
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    I'm a bit of a nut job, but if that listing was closer I'd prolly jump on the deal. Would be fun to put it back together and get it back in use.

    Those old catalogs are something else as well. Very neat stuff.

    On a side note, for some reason there are is set of original blue prints on ebay right now from 1910 for an evaporator by the Sam Daniels Manufacturing Company, which seems to have been around from 1892 to 1969. One of the pictures looks like a float box. Searching for "Antique MAPLE SYRUP EVAPORATOR Blueprints" should drag it up.

    Also because of that started poking around a bit more and ran across this evaporator patent from 1910 from the same guy. Kind of neat looking. https://patents.google.com/patent/US974475A/en

    Edit: Patent rabbit hole runs deep, lots of interesting results https://patents.google.com/?q=maple&...ple+evaporator
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    Leader still makes maple equipment out of the pine street building that G.H. Grimm built in 1899. Just down the street from where I live. I'm also going to have to find his house that he built. Right up the street. Thank you for sharing. Love the history.
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    Thanks for the note on the Sam Daniels blueprints on Ebay. I saw those as well and will be doing a later post on the Sam Daniels company in the evaporator company history series.
    Last edited by sugar matt; 03-09-2019 at 10:24 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by VTnewguy View Post
    Leader still makes maple equipment out of the pine street building that G.H. Grimm built in 1899. Just down the street from where I live. I'm also going to have to find his house that he built. Right up the street. Thank you for sharing. Love the history.
    Here's a link to fairly recent story about the G.H. Grimm house in Rutland:

    https://www.rutlandherald.com/rutlan...2a9703db7.html

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    I don't really think its that funny. People pay good money for vintage and if someone is in the position to/wants to rebuild that evaporator to its original state, those castings are pretty priceless. Power to them.
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