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Re: Draining residential boiler in spring
Thanks! I never took a class, but I’ve read a lot of books, mostly novels. I have a huge collection of brief descriptions that inspire me. For example:
He had the attention of a hummingbird
A yacht of a nose
As quiet as greased smoke
I have never understood the two of you. She’s a steaknife, and you’re a dessert spoon.
She ended the conversation with the efficiency of a guillotine.
She looked at me the way a woman looks at a pair of shoes that are OK, but not quite right.
Her eyes were clover green and Celtic fierce.
He picked his words as though they were fruit on a bramble bush.
As hot as a Tex-Mex picnic on Mercury
He entered the room looking like a Spanish galleon in full sail.
He left like a creaking rocking chair, squeaking and leaning back-and-forth.
He was charismatically challenged.
As crazy as a soup sandwich
He kept smiling at her with a mouth like a wet keyhole.
Re: Radiators Are In Stock
I'm in what is called a "mixed marriage" I guess.
My wife cringes, and sometimes full-on hollers at me when I call it gravy (which is partly why I do it, of course). Her father is the original Italian playboy, having immigrated from Puglia at 16 years old and still can't speak English very well, wears gold chains under his unbuttoned shirts, and still tries to pick up ladies at his 82 years of age. My mother in law is a beautiful woman from Sicily and is just impossible, which is a whole 'nother story. But they were very much a food-centric, cooking-exquisite-meals-daily household. They are right about the saucy-gravy debate but my mom (pictured) and I will never admit that to them.
This is a nice nostalgic thread we have going here.
JohnNY
Re: Radiators Are In Stock
sauce vs. gravy reminds me…
My youngest son used to refer to salad dressing as "Salad Gravy". Made for some strange looks from servers in restaurants.
Kid thought ranch was a food group!
Have a good weekend everyone!
Re: Radiators Are In Stock
I get these all the time. They're the perfect shape for trapping mom's Sunday tomato sauce. In Italian, they're called "radiatori."
JohnNY
Re: Mitigating extreme water hammer spikes in high-head plumbing loops?
Is it just me, or is the original post spam, AI assisted ad? New account? Super model photo? Trying to get traffic on the international website? Nobody I know who works on pipes can write so elegantly with perfect grammer.... Actually I probably don't know anybody personally, any field, who writes like that.
bjohnhy
Re: Steam piping, change in elevation solution.
@RayWohlfarth (insert eye roll here) Haha. Hope you're well.
That's an interesting question! I'm going to find out what the threshold is on the mega press. I spent over $10,000 on ½" to 4" jaws so after the fact seems like the perfect time to look into it.
JohnNY
Re: Burnham replacement boiler EDR/Pick Up Question
For steam, learn to err on the slightly smaller. But it won't be an err, it will be the correct thing to do.
Re: Recourse after overpaying?
Let's cut to the chase here, folks. Party A agreed with party B to pay party B to perform some work and supply some material. They agreed, if I read the initial post correctly, on a specified sum.
Not to sound like a total kill-joy here, but that is a civil contract, and there is no ethical or moral or legal way to get out of honoring the contract, provided that party B performed the work and supplied the material as written or agreed.
Whether the contract was "fair" to either party, or the contract price was "reasonable", or whatever is totally irrelevant.
Sorry.
Re: Monoflo fittings unused
The Monoflo® Tee fittings and the associated standard tee fitting were most likely placed there for accommodating a radiator or convector. Perhaps for future use when a second floor is added in the future or there was a radiator that was removed and the both Tee branches were plugged. In any case, that is the wrong way to abandon a set of unused Monoflo® branches. There is a restriction inside the tee fitting that diverts water to the branch. Without the branch, that is only a restriction. If you are going to do that you may as well just use the next smaller diameter pipe and remove the restrictive tee fitting(s)
The correct way to abandon a Monoflo® Tee is to place a full size pipe from one branch to the other to give the diverted water a place to go and return back to the system further down the main.
This Illustrates the proper way to connect the unused tee branches
See how the restriction will end up making the total loop drop to the lower GPM. Even though the first inlet pipe has the ability to move 10 GPM, the first resatriction reduces that flow to a lower flow rate of 8.5 nad there is no path for the other 1.5 GPM to use, which in turn makes the entire loop a lower flow rate.
As a result of the lower flow rate the amount of heat the water can move the the rest of the radiators is restricted to the lower flow rate.
By adding a bypass pipe from the branches you do not restrict the entire main loop since the additional 1.5 GPM has a path to the other side of the tee restriction.
As far as the valve is concerned, that appears to be at a 45° from fully open or fully closed. That may be to balance the two separate branch circuits of the system by having one branch go strait thru the tee fitting there is less restriction to flow than there is to take the 90° turn and follow the other branch circuit. if that happens then you can balance the system by partially closing off the branch (the is going straight) so mor flow goes to the branch the needs to turn.
if you add a valve to the straight thru main loop going straight up in this illustration, you can add some resistance to the flow and when you get it just right, leave it there for ever and ever. or until the building gets demolished
