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Furnace filters

Eigenvector

09-10-2006

redwoodcoast

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Jim

Eigenvector

Robert Gammon

Eigenvector

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Posted by Jim on September 11, 2006, 6:13 am

Eigenvector wrote:

> So I was gonna replace my gas furnace filter today before the cold weather

> starts, or at least the cold night weather. But for the life of me I can't

> find any information on or about my gas furnace - except for the brand and

> the date of installation. Heck, even the filter is one of those freeform

> washable filters that doesn't have a cardboard border with the dimensions on

> it (basically just a rectangular mat of green fibers that is totally

> impregnated with dust and looks about a useful as a third tit). So I took

> it out and measured it - it comes out to be 14x27

> So I go out looking for a filter for it and no one I know of sells anything

> even remotely like that size, 14x30 14x24 14x25 but not 14x27.

> So anyway I have a Payne furnace installed in 1983, there is a wiring

> diagram on the inside of the filter cover and that give a model number of

> 397H or 375A but that's it. There's nothing on the outside of the furnace

> and nothing that I could see on the inside where the motor and burners sit.

> So what's the story, the Payne homepage is about a useful as a 4th tit and I

> couldn't pull anything up about a 375 or 397.

http://www.filters-now.com/compare.x?submit=Go&size=14X27#skipmenu

Posted by Eigenvector on September 12, 2006, 12:04 am

> Eigenvector wrote:

>> So I was gonna replace my gas furnace filter today before the cold

>> weather starts, or at least the cold night weather. But for the life of

>> me I can't find any information on or about my gas furnace - except for

>> the brand and the date of installation. Heck, even the filter is one of

>> those freeform washable filters that doesn't have a cardboard border with

>> the dimensions on it (basically just a rectangular mat of green fibers

>> that is totally impregnated with dust and looks about a useful as a third

>> tit). So I took it out and measured it - it comes out to be 14x27

>> So I go out looking for a filter for it and no one I know of sells

>> anything even remotely like that size, 14x30 14x24 14x25 but not 14x27.

>> So anyway I have a Payne furnace installed in 1983, there is a wiring

>> diagram on the inside of the filter cover and that give a model number of

>> 397H or 375A but that's it. There's nothing on the outside of the

>> furnace and nothing that I could see on the inside where the motor and

>> burners sit.

>> So what's the story, the Payne homepage is about a useful as a 4th tit

>> and I couldn't pull anything up about a 375 or 397.

> http://www.filters-now.com/compare.x?submit=Go&size=14X27#skipmenu

Yeah but the thing that bothers me is that NONE of the filter sites let you
search by FURNACE - which would be more helpful.

Posted by Robert Gammon on September 13, 2006, 4:58 am

Eigenvector wrote:

>> Eigenvector wrote:

>>> So I was gonna replace my gas furnace filter today before the cold

>>> weather starts, or at least the cold night weather. But for the life of

>>> me I can't find any information on or about my gas furnace - except for

>>> the brand and the date of installation. Heck, even the filter is one of

>>> those freeform washable filters that doesn't have a cardboard border with

>>> the dimensions on it (basically just a rectangular mat of green fibers

>>> that is totally impregnated with dust and looks about a useful as a third

>>> tit). So I took it out and measured it - it comes out to be 14x27

>>>

>>> So I go out looking for a filter for it and no one I know of sells

>>> anything even remotely like that size, 14x30 14x24 14x25 but not 14x27.

>>>

>>> So anyway I have a Payne furnace installed in 1983, there is a wiring

>>> diagram on the inside of the filter cover and that give a model number of

>>> 397H or 375A but that's it. There's nothing on the outside of the

>>> furnace and nothing that I could see on the inside where the motor and

>>> burners sit.

>>>

>>> So what's the story, the Payne homepage is about a useful as a 4th tit

>>> and I couldn't pull anything up about a 375 or 397.

>>>

>> http://www.filters-now.com/compare.x?submit=Go&size=14X27#skipmenu

> Yeah but the thing that bothers me is that NONE of the filter sites let you

> search by FURNACE - which would be more helpful.

Measure the rack that holds the filter, not the filter itself. It
should be a shade more than one of the numbers you found at Filters Now

Posted by Eigenvector on September 13, 2006, 7:33 pm

> Eigenvector wrote:

>>> Eigenvector wrote:

>>>

>>>> So I was gonna replace my gas furnace filter today before the cold

>>>> weather starts, or at least the cold night weather. But for the life

>>>> of me I can't find any information on or about my gas furnace - except

>>>> for the brand and the date of installation. Heck, even the filter is

>>>> one of those freeform washable filters that doesn't have a cardboard

>>>> border with the dimensions on it (basically just a rectangular mat of

>>>> green fibers that is totally impregnated with dust and looks about a

>>>> useful as a third tit). So I took it out and measured it - it comes

>>>> out to be 14x27

>>>>

>>>> So I go out looking for a filter for it and no one I know of sells

>>>> anything even remotely like that size, 14x30 14x24 14x25 but not 14x27.

>>>>

>>>> So anyway I have a Payne furnace installed in 1983, there is a wiring

>>>> diagram on the inside of the filter cover and that give a model number

>>>> of 397H or 375A but that's it. There's nothing on the outside of the

>>>> furnace and nothing that I could see on the inside where the motor and

>>>> burners sit.

>>>>

>>>> So what's the story, the Payne homepage is about a useful as a 4th tit

>>>> and I couldn't pull anything up about a 375 or 397.

>>>>

>>> http://www.filters-now.com/compare.x?submit=Go&size=14X27#skipmenu

>>>

>> Yeah but the thing that bothers me is that NONE of the filter sites let

>> you search by FURNACE - which would be more helpful.

> Measure the rack that holds the filter, not the filter itself. It should

> be a shade more than one of the numbers you found at Filters Now

Thank you that's the best information I've managed to glean from here and
alt.hvac.

Posted by Eigenvector on September 13, 2006, 9:13 pm