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Re: Getting rid of the old boiler sections
Scrapper came right down to the basement to haul away sections of my old Burham 5B, including two buckets of rust chips from the collapsing pedestal. Not sure if he got money for the chips or just did us a favor. That said the boiler sections were (only) 150 lbs each.
Re: Getting rid of the old boiler sections
a combination of cutting with the diamond wheel, a little sawzall action with the expensive Diablo blade, some old school sledgehammering.
GW
Re: Corroded connectors on new boiler.
I find some of the bits from overseas use straight thread instead of NPT. The NPT fitting will thread on but you'll have a hard time sealing. That is also a pretty shallow fitting on the nipple, it could have bottomed out before the thread sealed.
Kaos
Re: New House, New Problems- Introduction and seeking help on new to me steam
If your nice new vapourstat (good for you, by the way!) doesn't shut off the boiler when you think it should, it is possible that it is miswired. It — and the low water cutoff — should both stop; the boiler when they are activated, but it is possible — since there seem to be one or two other things which are peculiar — that something else is wired in parallel with it instead of in series…
See if you can trace the wiring out to see what is connected to what and how.
Re: Add drain to sight glass
I ended up removing the street 45 as that was impinging on the door too. I then cut off the barb. It just basically clears. I can get either a funnel or small pie tin under it to collect the water. By the way, the drain was clogged for a bit and then water started to drain after a couple seconds. Thanks for your help, all.
Don_175
Re: Turn down the heat?
There's no danger to the boiler. I would be concerned about the power to the boiler. Get a low temperature alarm that will alert you and or a trusted caretaker.
Grallert
Re: Corroded connectors on new boiler.
Your installing contractor has to take them apart clean them and actually make them tight this time
Fixed it for both of you 😅
Chances are something is made in China.
Because american fittings can't be incorrectly taped and tightened, Ed? Come now 🙂
Re: Corroded connectors on new boiler.
You know the quality of China stuff is all over the place. Some is ok and some is not.
I bought a box of Chinese nipples at a supply house late in the day and never looked in the box and when I opened it the next morning more than half the nipples had torn up threads. It didn't help that I was 2 hours away from that supply house in the morning and nowhere around to buy more. I am not talking about a couple of nicks I mean totally unusable and I needed them. So yeah. If that makes me prejudiced than I guess I am. And as far as brass goes have you ever (in recent times) bought any brass that was not made overseas?
I have bought Ward (when they were in business) and Anvil stuff and seldom had a bad fitting. My problem is the damage to those nipples could be easily see. Someone looked at them threw them in the nipple pack and didn't care.
We also did a gas job once with black foreign pipe. It wouldn't pass a pressure test. High pressure gas line 10psi. This was 100s of feet of pipe all with welded fittings. We spent days wasting time looking for leaks. Pipe was 15' in the air. Had to cut it all out new pipe reweld re pressurize etc. Lot of money wasted.
Turned out it was the seam in the pipe itself that leaked
Re: Getting rid of the old boiler sections
Use a grinder w a diablo metal blade cut a bunch of channel in the proper place and a good wide chiesel and it shold pop the rest of the way . In my younger days i ve dragged them out myself but when i got older started to smash them and got used to having some sledge handles extra but in the past couple of years of still dragging out it was the grinder much quicker and cheaper then buying and replacing multi handles . Now a days when in that situation unless a walk in walk out i make a call and a bunch of super nice gentlemen come and draggem out and dispose of them for less time and money then i ever could do it plus saves the back and enables you to concentrate on the real work at hand . some would rather kill them self and there workers then pay for the service at this point in my life again if its a walk in walk out standard residential boiler ok but on larger one i drop the dime and get the nicest gorillas to do the heavy work it a whole lot smarter that way and nobody gets hurt .
peace and good luck clammy
clammy