A heating and AC wholesale parts house might have it. Or,
take a couple digicam photos and take the camera to your big
box hardware store. I know one small town hardware that has
a lot of heating parts and pieces.

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"mm" wrote in message
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Where do I get this part for an oil furnace?

In a way, maybe I should wait and see what happens tomorrow,
but I am
hoping to learn something in advance.

I just noticed or just created a hole in a sheet metal part
of my oil
furnace, a small box that connects the firebox to the flue.
It looks
rectangular from the front, top, and bottom, and trapezoidal
from the
side**, shorter at the front than the back. It is open in
the back to
connect to the firebox and has a round hole near the front
in the top
to connect to the flue. (Is there a name for this part?)

The man is already scheduled and coming to clean the furnace
late
tomorrow morning. Even if he leaves his shop without the
part, if his
company stocks it, I can go there and get it while he is at
his
earlier customers. Do they stock things like this? The
Carrier oil
furnace is 20+ years old. If I give the company the furnace
model
number, might they have this part in stock? Or do they make
one when
they need one? Or will I have to find someone to make me
one?

Is he going to insist I need a whole new furnace because
this one part
is crumbling? If he said that, would he be right? I ran
it for
about 20 minutes last month and it worked fine. The hole
appeared
today, probably after I pushed on the metal with the shop
vac tube.


**I have more exact measurements but it's roughly 5" high
near the
firebox, 2.5 inches at the front, and 18 inches deep, and 14
inches
wide. Plus it has a flange around it that gets screwed to
the
furnace.