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Re: Recommendation for highly reliable natural gas water heater?...
BW seems to hold up the best.
Re: Hartford Loop design origin
it is just a trap with a vent to keep it from forming a syphon.
mattmia2
Re: Vent placement in home 2-pipe steam heat system
"simply a focused analysis of air volume and venting in a piping system"
Sounds simple enough, and if air or some other non-condensable, near ideal gas was what was involved I'm not all that surprised at your results.
Saturated steam is, unhappily, condensable and nowhere near an ideal gas. Even such apparently simple relationships for gasses, such as Bernoulli's principle, simply don't apply.
Look up enthalpy… among other things.
Re: Recommendation for highly reliable natural gas water heater?...
I believe BW used to have their plant in rural michigan somewhat near me, I know others are in the south somewhere. There are a couple manufacturers but nowhere near as many manufacturers as brands.
I would go with the powered anode and change the crappy factory drain out for a good full port ball valve with hose thread and a cap so you can do a good job of flushing it.
mattmia2
Re: Supplying steam to one radiator from 2 zones
I wasn't thinking two boilers I was thinking two separete mains
Re: Oil to propane, Kingston NY area - EDITED.
It's your puppy on the fuel. Where I am, some 100 miles or so east of you, propane is two or three times as expensive as fuel oil, per BTU. Your mileage may vary, but do your math.
Your Burnham V8 needs service if it's only putting out 75% by the instruments, by the way. It should be around 85%.
The small shops can be very good. As always, the quality of the workmanship and stability of the shop for follow up service is what you are looking for.
Re: DIY result, will it hold?
If it hasn't leaked by now, you surely have done a good job. There's no need to give it any more thought.
Intplm.
Re: Can I take out these radiators to spray paint?
Thats a very big & heavy undertaking. Get a shop vac & clean out as much dust bunnies as possible, clean, prime & paint in place with a high heat Rustoleum. Let us know how they turn out. Mad Dog
Re: Recommendation for highly reliable natural gas water heater?...
I have exclusively installed Bradford White over the last 30 years after the others didn't hold up like they promised..Mad Dog
Re: DIY result, will it hold?
This could have to do with the Hot Work Permit being required to work in that building?
Copper press connections are a safe, reliable method for that type of work.
The only way to know the quality of a soldered joint is to cut it open. That is what is required when you take a plumbing license test in some jurisdictions. Same for a poured lead joint test.
The type and brand of solder and flux is more a personal choice, like a tool or truck :)
The appearance of the joint can sometimes tell if the solder work was successful. In rare cases the joint can develop a leak after some use if a flux pocket washes out, for example. Many a plumber has had a sweat joint leak appear days later.
With experience you can tell or feel if the joint flowed the appropriate amount of solder into the fitting successfully.
hot_rod