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Re: Pricing on refurbished cast iron radiators
It's a very small market in most areas. Here in the Detroit area I refer my customers to a powder coating company so they can go look at the samples and drop it off. I will usually just uninstall and reinstall the rads once they are done.
Re: I get all the weird ones...
"They need the door open for several reasons, they bring the material in with a loader, and then it gets placed with a 308 CAT excavator onto the conveyor. So they want the door open for the fresh air (i already told them bad idea) but also they run that loader in and out about a 100 times a day"
What a god awfull idea. Running a diesel engine inside a building.
Why don't they do things the normal way. An overhead trolley crane with a grapple. Staging area outside for unprocessed material. Crane moves material from outside in through a small opening right to the conveyor. Forklift inside for handling the bales.
Re: I get all the weird ones...
air curtain. They are power hogs for the blowers, but they are oddly effective.
Re: New Century House with Two Pipe Steam - Questions
I honestly think these are just "pipe hangers," basically a sideways L drilled into the wall and then connected into something holding the pipe.
Re: Steam kettle trap
Might not be a bad idea to replace the bucket trap with an F&T. Bucket traps don't vent air that well, and if the air can't get out of the kettle, the steam can't get in.
Re: I get all the weird ones...
Since we're just throwing things out there. How about a 50 ft long entrance tunnel with doors at both ends. Only one door open at a time. Overhead IR heaters in the tunnel.
HVACNUT
Frozen EVAP coil
4 ton Trane RTU. I replaced the compressor, TXV, drier few weeks ago. Performed pressure test and pulled good vacuum. Charged per the unit tag. Unit ran fine.
Yesterday service call- evap coil frozen. Thawed it overnight. It's cooling. R-410a.
110/262. My sub cooling is 12.5F. I have 20F across the EVAP coil. 54F discharge air into the space. Clean filter and good airflow. Only thing that concerns me is the low side pressure. My EVAP coil temp is 36F. I'm afraid it will freeze up again. But I'm reluctant to add gas as I charged the exact amount. I've checked the setpoints and schedule on the thermostat and it looks good.
Any idea?
Garrett, Georgia.
Re: Need some advice for a vintage Peerless radiator valve hookup
5th pic from the top is the radiator leg off the floor like it looks like it is or is that an optical illusion?
Looks like the pipe is holding the radiator up in the air,
Re: Need some advice for a vintage Peerless radiator valve hookup
Is this first floor or second floor? Shouldn't make any difference if it was gutted. What he should have done was bought the fittings and screw them into the radiator while it was on site and got a center -center measurement. 2d best would be to put the supply and return a little farther apart…to close and you end up with what you got. If there is a joist in the way you make the supply and return farther apart
Re: Oversized overtall chimney?
If your primary concern is cold air infiltration, then seal the upper envelope and reduce stack losses by installing a barometric damper so it's not exhausting at standby. The Neutral Pressure Plane follows the leaks. If it's high on the first floor or higher, you really don't have an upper seal and your house is just one big chimney. Put a cork in it then provide some relief as low as possible below the NPP to move it downwards and thus move the infiltration to the basement- not living space.
A high mass boiler is going to have some stack losses at standby, but you can minimize those losses with a baro. and an interlocked vent damper with a spill switch on the baro.
If your boiler was sized properly for the EDR and you down-fire the boiler, you are shooting yourself in the foot.
