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Re: New refrigerants Epa 608
Anything mid 1930s to mid 1940s is probably an excellent choice if you just want it to make your food cold and never stop working.
ChrisJ
Re: New refrigerants Epa 608
I'm holding out buying a new refrigerator until its an R290 unit that way I can be fairly sure the tech will stick around long enough the manufacturers might have a chance to perfect it. That or do what @ChrisJ would do and buy an antique monitor top.
GGross
Re: New refrigerants Epa 608
Thinner=more efficient—-yes
We have a 10 to 1 leak rate on indoor wall units, the "high efficiency" wall units are 10x more likely to leak.
That's just mt data. I've been logging this into a speadsheet for 10plus years
GW
Re: Beckett Oil Burner
Use an 1/8” impact bit in a micro ratchet, like the Klein one.
Re: Remodeled House. Now Radiators Are Way Too Large
@Alan (California Radiant) Forbes I misunderstood; thought there was a comfort issue. BTW, I did the same…oversized runtal rads; boiler ended up way oversized, not because of planning, but because I installed during COVID and a smaller boiler just wasn't available. Max water temp is set at 150 degrees however, on 30 degree day, modulates to well under @120 ish.
tocker
Re: Ever seen one of these??
Is that HW or Steam? The manual vent looks like it would be water. Might make a nice seat on a cold day……..for a short time
Or a piece of steel between the lugs you could cook breakfast on it.
I wonder what the purpose of the step in it was?
Re: Magnesium anode vs Electric anode vs No anode
Looks like you used all black steel nipples? on purpose I suppose?
I often wonder how a tank that is completely lined with glass, including the welded on connection points, rust, or need anode protection. Plastic or composite tanks don't have anodes that I know of.
Most stainless tanks do not either.
hot_rod
Re: Summer shut down and 8 way treatment
@ethicalpaul it was the winter time and I didn’t know about the burnham problem. And it made sense to get it to line up to the existing drop headers and basically slide a new one right in. Even the guy who did it didn’t like burnhams but bc of those reasons I went with an exact replacement
skimmer
Re: Magnesium anode vs Electric anode vs No anode
With the Mg Fe cell, the current is going to deposit the iron in the water on to the iron electrode, the pipe. It takes very little iron in the correct oxidation state to be orange to dye the water orange although that looks to be in an insoluble state. A toilet tank starts to get that type or precipitate pretty quickly. It may be in a clear and soluble oxidation state until it gets better contact with air where it changes to an insoluble orange oxidation state.
mattmia2