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Kodak Moment: Yet Another Oil Boiler that had been "maintained"
Older Weil-McLain WGO-3 with Beckett AFG that we serviced for the first time yesterday. Took most of a day to get it clean:
You can see the rug had come loose and the sulfur deposits got behind it and made it curl inward. You can also see where the flame was hitting it, causing sooting in the flue passages. The oil company must have been laughing all the way to the bank.
We also replaced the old 3-wire primary and added an oil-delay valve. I know there won't be much cleaning to do next year!
Re: gas valve housing cuts off air flow
Best bet would be to install a new burner. The hard part would be finding someone who could actually do it right
Re: Old NYC Church heating.......
@Mad Dog_2 thanks for sharing the photos. Amazing that those roughly one hundred year old pipe radiators appear to have no leaks. Not sure I can say that about today's press and Shark-Bite type fittings. On a positive note, think about the labor required to deliver, set up and build those pipe rads as compared to what we use today.
Old NYC Church heating.......
Saint Joseph of the Holy Family, Harlem 1860. Fantastic! Mad Dog
Re: gas valve housing cuts off air flow
I did not replace the 'flame spreader stone'. As pictured, I put the broken pieces together in bottom of furnace, with a stone on top to hold them in place. It has been like this for decades. flames come out around edges. as far I know (and I don't know much) it is doing its job.
jeffrey
Re: Kodak Moment: Yet Another Oil Boiler that had been "maintained"
That boiler had a partially blocked nozzle. I don't know how it kept running without tripping the cad cell, but it obviously ran quite a while. This was in its own room, and there was soot on everything from about 3 feet up. The floor was also pretty wet with oil, so had to remove the boiler and rebuild the room. That place was a mess
Rick
Re: Air conditioning condensate
If you have 2000 CFM at 80F and 70% RH, and magically condense all the water out, you get something like 0.26gpm. I don't even think the numbers work if there results were in pints per minute rather than gpm.
winnie
Re: Literature on Geothermal
I was going with a glycol based on my brother's experience, but I think I'll run water to start and monitor temperatures first. You made me a believer in using water when at all possible.
skyking1
