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Re: Compression tank loop
@PeteA
Cost of a correct upgrade from Air Management to Air Removal. You might need two bladder tanks (they are smaller). Parts and Labor to repipe. Air Removal device(s). Dirt Magnet. The old style tanks are very tolerant of dirt and rust.
It's like putting a digital dash, big blingy rims, and a small block chevy, in a classic International Harvester truck.
Cost of a correct upgrade from Air Management to Air Removal. You might need two bladder tanks (they are smaller). Parts and Labor to repipe. Air Removal device(s). Dirt Magnet. The old style tanks are very tolerant of dirt and rust.
It's like putting a digital dash, big blingy rims, and a small block chevy, in a classic International Harvester truck.
WMno57
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Re: is it possible to use plate heat exchanger for domestic hot water
There are a few ways to go about this. A small electric water heater tank as a buffer with the HX in a series loop set up as a zone from the CI boiler would probably be the easiest and cheapest. Otherwise a simple flow switch like a combi uses, that could actuate a 3 way valve or zone circ to do the same thing without the tank.
GroundUp
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Re: Very Cool 😎 Urinals at a Brewery
there's a brewery here in CT where rt 8 and 25 meet I95,
it's inside one of the cloverleafs,
same urinals.
it's inside one of the cloverleafs,
same urinals.
neilc
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Re: Old Radiators
Nice Dan..I installed those A.A. Griffin. Rads in my Old Victorian 1899-1900. The very wide one behind the couch in the Parlor I got from an Old Qauker Estate Farmhouse in Old Westbury (Long Island 🏝 North Shore Gold Coast). The Mini, I purchased at A1 Radiator in Mass from Fran Fahey. Love em. Mad Dog 🐕
Old Radiators
We are replacing the boiler in a c. 1887 Queen Anne Victorian home in upper NW DC, right on the Maryland line.
I have seen pictures of radiators like these, but never in person.
I will post pictures of the boiler when we replace it after the holidays. 
Dan Foley
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Re: Dear Reader
It's not surprising that the huge outpouring of gratitude is like a tidal wave of love. So many people were helped and managed to learn more skills. I'm forever grateful and trying to wrap my brain around your absence. I have memories of you when you worked for Wallace Ennace selling B&G pumps to my father's company. 60 Minutes should do a tribute. Enjoy your well deserved time and family.
Re: Dan Holohan Retires After 36 Years of Writing Magazine Columns
It’s getting close to 30 years since you put my career on a different path. 5-6 years later, hydronics was all I did. I can’t thank you enough for that.
Be well.
Enjoy the grandkids.
Enjoy the grandkids.
Thank you, Dan.
Re: Sourcing Small parts such as washers and stainless clips etc
Baxi, a German boiler uses similar seals
Bruno is a German contractor that has shown various seal repair kits on his IG site. Maybe reach out to him for some ideas.
Bruno is a German contractor that has shown various seal repair kits on his IG site. Maybe reach out to him for some ideas.
hot_rod
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Re: Completely brand-new setup and we continue to have issues.
@EdTheHeaterManIn fairness, there are some oil companies that will still do a thorough cleaning of Weil McLain pin-type boilers despite the hassle, and our is one of them. Every fall they spend a couple of hours cleaning our two WGO-5 boilers, and it is a pain, but they take the time to do it right.
Boiler passages???? What are those??" Now with most technicians a soot stick a nozzle and a filter is all you get for a tune up. Oh,you wanted us to actually clean the boiler????
So I have to agree with @EdTheHeaterMan that the very limited access to the top of the boiler is going to be problematic, and that a better choice for that setup might have been something like a Buderus that gets cleaned from the front instead of the top.
jesmed1
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