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Re: Stealing Steam Boiler Water for Hydronic Baseboard?
Depends a lot on whether the system was pulling from the boiler or the wet return. If it's pulling from the boiler such a system can work very well, although ideally the return will be to a tapping some distance from the supply.
Re: Stealing Steam Boiler Water for Hydronic Baseboard?
Probably not picking up much heat if the baseboard supply and return are near each other, but they do need to be below the waterline.
Re: Size Transfer Pump to Flush a Small Hydronic Loop
i am flushing the system. not installing a pump.
please excuse the miscommunication.
Re: Adding a Garber Spin on Oil Filter
Using the pliers trick and you never have to put any torque on it.
Re: Replace a Munchkin boiler before it fails, or keep it going?
The boiler may be fine but the original installer created a big mess. Looks like crap.
Re: Replace a Munchkin boiler before it fails, or keep it going?
ah a floor sitting Munchkin. Yes, all that needs to be re-piped, it’s a bit of a mess.
GW
Re: Replace a Munchkin boiler before it fails, or keep it going?
I would run the Munchkin a year or two longer. Certainly over a navien.
Parts are not that terrible to find . But i am on the east coast where HTP is located.
kcopp
Re: Old fridge
I'm redoing the wiring in a 1938 as we speak, and I wouldn't want that left plugged in the way it was.
ChrisJ
Re: Mystery tool
This discussion is a great example of, you catch what you’re fishing for. Keep in mind, the internet repeats urban legends like a ham radio repeater. Maybe it is a bed wrench. I don’t know. I would just like to know if people really believe firemen carried a specialized wrench to disassemble beds during a working structure fire…..
rick25s
Re: Mystery tool
Lots of older plug valves on water systems and oil lines and the like had square shaft ends which one would turn to open or close the valve (hmm… I wonder if this is open? Closed? sometimes they had markings on them…) and one carried a key like that to operate them. I have one floating round here somewhere…