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Re: What parts should I keep on hand ???
Combustion test should be done every year or two or if the burner is worked on if the nozzle is changed or you see any soot or abnormal operation
Re: Stupid Little Bracket
Ok. You upgraded the boiler by adding the Spill Switch and Rollout. That's good. But the wiring to the Rollout is obviously suspect. It needs to be protected.
The burns could be due to poor draft, or it could be due to poor crimps. Both need to be checked. Either way, by posting about the bracket, you brought a possible problem to the keen eyes of the people here, who are only trying to help make sure things don't go boom.
I'm going with bad crimps. And with the insulation gone, are the wires touching each other?
HVACNUT
Re: Stupid Little Bracket
JakeCK has been with us a long time, so let's give him a break. At least he didn't jumper the safety.
Re: Logamatic 2107
49 years and this is the worst then I would say you have done an exceptional job over your career and deserve a pat on the back
GGross
Re: Stupid Little Bracket
This comment's insinuation was disrespectful and not helpful. I've removed it. Please follow site rules and remember that we are all here to learn and not to fight with one another.
-Andrew
Re: Big mouth vent installed horizontally — wrong?
That's the weird little secret of true two pipe steam systems! Putting a vent on what might just as well be an open pipe started when people figured out clever patented widgets to occasionally pressurise the dry return to keep the pressure differential between the returns and the mains to some reasonable value — to keep the water in the boiler where it belongs. (The Hoffman Differential Loop, for instance, was advertised as "The Watchman of the Waterline").
Then people realised that if you put a vent there and steam got into the return from, say, a bad trap then it would close and you didn't get steam in the boiler room and the building super didn't get complaints about steam in the basement. Great! Doesn't help the heating much, but… who cares?
Funny world.
Re: Simple low-tech (and cost) in-line "residential" water meter?
Unless tested and certified you can't use them for billing.
Have the water department install them and take the responsibility.
pecmsg
Re: Big mouth vent installed horizontally — wrong?
but any water that gets in to it may not find its way back in to the main but may drip out
mattmia2