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Re: A very Merry Christmas 🎅 to all
Enjoy the day with fambly. Mad Dog 🐕
Merry Christmas to you too.And a very Merry Christmas to you.
Intplm.
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Re: A very Puppy 🐶 Christmas 🎄 😍 ❤
A new Sweeney is added to the family . Hopefully to be as well behaved as the others . No home is really complete till there some body always sleeping on the couch while every body is out working without a care in the world except when they filling that chow bowl . Best of luck . Merry Xmas
Peace and good luck clammy
Peace and good luck clammy
clammy
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Re: Help please! Drastic change in glass gauge level from off to on
Probably needs skimming
The piping may be too small.
What is the EDR capacity of the boiler
More IMPORTANT
With 2 equalizers the difference in pressure between the two steam headers could have something to do with the unstable water line
The piping may be too small.
What is the EDR capacity of the boiler
More IMPORTANT
With 2 equalizers the difference in pressure between the two steam headers could have something to do with the unstable water line
Re: Occupation
I remember the First time meeting Gary Wilson at a Jim Davis & Al D Ambola (RIP PAL) Somewhere deep in Penna . His beautiful young wife was there, met Mark Hunt & Darin Cooke (USAF Iraq & Afghanistan) in person, Jody Litten (Lost Touch). We all found out about this Carbon Monoxide Seminar at HH.COM The Wall. It was a great bonding & weekend of Camraderie, Education, Imbibing till all hours. Gary and I had just went out on our own, so this was 1999-2000ish. At its peak, Triple Crown P & H employed 5 Plumbers 1 helper and an office manager until 2008 Depression. With a Ginormous Mortgage, 3 Catholic School tuitions, after a great 12 year run, I went back to The Union. Very proud of you Gary. You done good, boy, real good 👍. Mad Dog 🐕
Re: Part needed!!! Desperate!!
dko I wish I could hug you!!!
I am trying to set up pick up right now! Thank you!!!!
Tracy16
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Re: Occupation
Contractor/employer, heating cooling, and a tiny bit of plumbing sprinkled in. Including me, nine full-time and one part-time person.
GW
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Re: Occupation
Grew up in the HVAC world with dad and grandfather in the business. Graduated college and went into commercial refrigeration for a year, then spent 20 years in the commercial market doing building automation mainly heating and chiller plants. Got tired of that and became a career firefighter at 40. Now on my days off work for small company doing hydronics, steam and the oil service nobody in the area wants to deal with lol.
Re: Occupation
@clammy, sounds like you did it all. A lot of experience and a lot of hard work. Congratulations.
Dunham Bush was the best back in the old days they did everything and had good engineering. They sold a boiler line, pumps, steam traps, air conditioning, refrigeration and oil and gas burners. You name it. They invented the forced draft flame retention burner back in the 50s. They were using 3450 blower motors and oil pump pressure up to 300psi before anyone else had a clue. I am certain they have many C-120 & C-240 burner from that era still running
The company I worked for was a dealer for their combustion products. I was lucky enough to visit the old factory in Harrisonburg, VA in the early 70s. Too bad it's all gone now. Moved to Malaysa I think.
Dunham Bush was the best back in the old days they did everything and had good engineering. They sold a boiler line, pumps, steam traps, air conditioning, refrigeration and oil and gas burners. You name it. They invented the forced draft flame retention burner back in the 50s. They were using 3450 blower motors and oil pump pressure up to 300psi before anyone else had a clue. I am certain they have many C-120 & C-240 burner from that era still running
The company I worked for was a dealer for their combustion products. I was lucky enough to visit the old factory in Harrisonburg, VA in the early 70s. Too bad it's all gone now. Moved to Malaysa I think.
Re: 1.414 Math, 45 degree offsets, a quick tutorial
I didn't know you worked for Boulangers. Funny I used to run into some of their jobs occasionally. It was strange 1 job would be a perfect install and one would be a disaster. I assume the perfect installs were yours LOL!
I do remember a Christmas weekend call at the Holyoke post office this was about 28ish years ago. On a Saturday. They had renovated the boiler room. They had a huge storage tank for DHW and one of the unused tapings someone had put a black plug in it. Unlucky for me it let go on Christmas weekend. And it was a really cold weekend. The gas burner was down in a pit and the pit was full of water. The power to the burner was still on and the lights in the burner panel were lit even with the burner completely submerged!
We shut the power down and pumped the water out took the gas train apart and dumped the water out of it. Dried stuff off. I couldn't get parts or controls and was not going to trust the burner programmer.
So I disconnected everything electrically and hot-wired the burner motor and it ran then I hot-wired the pilot valve and ignition transformer and that worked so I hot-wired the gas valves and got main flame. Low -high fire wouldn't work as the mod motor was bad so I ran it on low fire and made steam and sat there for 4-5 hours till the building was warm. Then I shut it down and chopped all the wires so they couldn't restart it. Its a big brick building so once it was hot it was ok through Sunday. Monday morning I was back there with a truck full of parts.
It wasn't much fun and I pretty much missed Christmas but I made some good cash!
I do remember a Christmas weekend call at the Holyoke post office this was about 28ish years ago. On a Saturday. They had renovated the boiler room. They had a huge storage tank for DHW and one of the unused tapings someone had put a black plug in it. Unlucky for me it let go on Christmas weekend. And it was a really cold weekend. The gas burner was down in a pit and the pit was full of water. The power to the burner was still on and the lights in the burner panel were lit even with the burner completely submerged!
We shut the power down and pumped the water out took the gas train apart and dumped the water out of it. Dried stuff off. I couldn't get parts or controls and was not going to trust the burner programmer.
So I disconnected everything electrically and hot-wired the burner motor and it ran then I hot-wired the pilot valve and ignition transformer and that worked so I hot-wired the gas valves and got main flame. Low -high fire wouldn't work as the mod motor was bad so I ran it on low fire and made steam and sat there for 4-5 hours till the building was warm. Then I shut it down and chopped all the wires so they couldn't restart it. Its a big brick building so once it was hot it was ok through Sunday. Monday morning I was back there with a truck full of parts.
It wasn't much fun and I pretty much missed Christmas but I made some good cash!