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Re: The Loneliest Place, my new article for PHC News magazine.
I had some beauties in my time. Do I miss it? yes and NO. There is something challenging about it though.
- I stuffed an oil fired boiler full of wood and newspaper and lit it with a match when their LP tank for the gas pilot was empty. Pulled the flame scammer out to fake out the control till it lit main flame.
2. Primed an oil pump with orange juice when I had to get the heat on.
3. Stripped all the 1" blowdown pipe off 3 boilers from the MM 51s and 150s and coupled them all together to make a temp oil suction line to get a burner running out of a 55 gallon drum to keep a building from freezing. Their underground tank had got filled with water and melted snow.
4.Pumped out a burner that was in a pit with the water over the top of the burner. Dried things out, tossed the primary control and put a bunch of jumpers on the subbase to get a burner to fire.
Re: Mystery water leak - excess water take up problem
Whatever your are going to install will cost you the same $$$ pretty much. Toss another Independence in if you want.
That way you don't have to worry about the install. Any decent plumber should be able to cut and paste……………………………..you would think.
And if you install the same boiler and your controls, low water cut off, pressure control etc are ok you can just buy the CI replacement block and save some $$$
really sucks to have this happen in the winter with a boiler that young.
Unfortunately, that is Burnhams MO
Re: Mystery water leak - excess water take up problem
I will give you my opinion and that is all it is. Go with Weil Mclain or Peerless. Stay away from Burnham and any of their re branded names like Crown.
Burnham came into the northeast (I am in MA.) big time in the 80s and 90s & 2000s. The schools were putting them in like crazy and all the installers were pushing them. They must have had good prices because they were taking every commercial job.
They (Burnham) blamed the water (chlorides) everywhere but eastern MA and RI were the worst. They also talked about some portion of the heat exchanger which had hot flue gas on one side and no water on the other.
My problem with them is ok, steam boilers can fail but hot water should go 30 years or more. Well, theirs didn't. I saw job after job with hot water boilers leaking after 10-15 years. I know of a high school with 5 Burnhams built in 2002 and they were all replaced when I retired in 2019 and most of them leaked long before they were replaced. JMHO
Your not that far into NH. I am sure there are some MA contractors with NH licenses. Search around some of the MA border towns. The boiler is shot so ripping the jacket off to find the leak you have nothing to lose. You may be able to slap some JB weld on it to buy some time. Weil McLain EG-50 is 454 sq feet of steam and Peerless 63-04 is 458
Re: Peerless 63 Series... Discontinued???
First time time might involve a tiny learning curve. But it's really very easy.
Re: Peerless 63 Series... Discontinued???
Will need to field assemble the wiring. No big deal. The wiring comes marked. Not well, but if you look at the wires, you will see tiny notes as to which wire goes where
Re: Rollout switch tripping
@Saul , call us on 410-321-8116 and we'll set up an appointment.
Re: Argo AR826 schematic?
Do you see any manufacturers date on the control? How old is the system.
That number doesn’t show up even in the retired products. Maybe it was an OEM control that Argo built
Some controls have dip switches to change the relay enable logic, attach a pic.
hot_rod
Re: The Loneliest Place, my new article for PHC News magazine.
you crank out a lot of content, keep sharing your knowledge.☺️
hot_rod
Re: The Loneliest Place, my new article for PHC News magazine.
Thanks Erin I appreciate it
