Intentional Observation: Rust

This week I helped out the economy by hiring the local HVAC (that’s heating, ventilating and air conditioning for those who might not know) guys. Our furnace was on the fritz, and we ended up needing a new heat exchange. Thankfully the part was much less than our HVAC guys expected, and came in a day earlier as well.

I kept the old heat exchange to mess around with or take to the metal recycling guys on Main Street. When I set it down on the driveway to open the garage door, rust chips rained out of the S-shaped ducts.

It was rust that doomed the part in the first place. The exchange, the guts of a furnace, was pocked with holes. The chips that fell out of said guts, however, create a beautifully textured and colored pile on a driveway.