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Re: Steam Boiler Pressure & Some Of My Adventures
The very end of the mains are steam isolated. The air is vented individually from each main. The main(s) venting (vent rate) is set up so the last radiator runout of each main gets steam at the same time or the main vents close at about the same time. Green path in the image is the air purge path of the mains. Modifying the very ends of the mains is probably the best place to get the most gain for the work.
109A_5
Re: Help!! Steam expert in Allentown/Reading PA area?
@JudyW I’ve done some work out in your from time to time.
You can reach me at (201) 887-8856
EzzyT
Re: Steam Boiler Pressure & Some Of My Adventures
Here is an example of @EzzyT beautiful work. Green arrows air flow, Blue condensate. The actual vents are hidden behind the main pipes, the vent pipe on the right can be seen the left vent pipe is mostly behind the conduit. Two separate drips down to the wet return.
109A_5
Re: AO Smith Gas Water Heater Warranty Replacement
Sometimes I feel like we don't do enough as a distributor then I read this stuff and I feel pretty good about what we are doing. I just wish you guys out in your area were getting decent service, sounds so much harder to deal with than it should be.
GGross
Re: My three worst jobs sites. What are yours?
Scariest was a slumlord apartment building with a big ol Scotch Boiler, 100-200hp range don't recall specifics. Single boiler was the only heat and hot water for the building. Running the pressure way too high and half the pipes connected to the thing were so corroded that it felt looking at them the wrong way might make them burst while I was next to them. Was happy to snap a couple photos and get outta there. You bet that bid was obnoxiously high and I was very pleased that mr slumlord decided not to go with our bid.
Had another building where the super was totally unhinged and was making viscous underhanded threats on my life while literally talking about how unhinged he knows he is. Wanted to get out of there right away, but it felt safer to let him monolog. Ended up standing around for like an hour letting him blather away until he was appeased and then I noped outta there asap.
Honorable mentions are getting baptized by sewage or when you find yourself in a decrepit basement and find it's absolutely teeming with roaches, rodents, or both.
Re: My three worst jobs sites. What are yours?
Installed the first central heating system in a 1728 American Chestnut-framed Colonial with ells back in 1970. No basement excepting a small potato cellar and virtually no to 18" clearance otherwise. It is still the oldest occupied building in this N.H. Town.
You cannot appreciate the environment beneath of critter carcasses, dens, droppings and current multi-legged crawlers of all descriptions. Had to trench-shovel access paths to route hydronic piping beneath, dropped the oil tank into the potato cellar and found a place behind the fireplace hearth to place the boiler.
Have you ever drilled pipe routing through 250 year aged American Chestnut? It challenges lignum vitae!
The punch line. I recently replaced my old Weil-McLain install with a new triple-pass UO. I guess we have both aged well …..
Re: My three worst jobs sites. What are yours?
Didn't Kevorkian work for one of the Detroit hospitals? His class med school graduation picture is in our hall with all of the other class pictures.
mattmia2
Re: Push nipple radiator problem
But to answer your question — yes indeed. you can squeeze RTV in there and let it set and you'll be good to go. Done it. It works.
Re: Rebuild or replace?
Replace it. I'd use a Gorton #2. That's on the return line, right?
