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Kids learn calculus but can't fry an egg. Learn Spanish and then cant speak it, watch sports and play video games on the weekend. There are young people seeing the light thankfully, just not as many as should be. For those in the northeast check out Williamson trade school in Pennsylvania. Free, over hundred percent job placement.

$$$ is the root of…

In Europe most folks live a fairly lean lifestyle. They stay in the same home for generations. The homes are built to last for generations. The young people are not so attracted to the easy money lure. Their quest is not to be a reality star, influencer, manipulate money for a living without any product being developed, game the system, on and on.

The crafts and trades are more alive and carrying on in other places in the world.

I'm not sure how we turn the tide here? Even with some high wage offerings, many just don't want to get dirty, be labeled as a blue collar worker.

More and more, even high ticket items are throwaway. We don't repair like we used to.

But we need to keep spreading the message of what the trades have to offer in addition to the $$.

LOL. I was going to be an auto mechanic, but my old man said "you're not going to be a grease monkey like your cousin"

Dragged me down to the local community college and signed me up for "Heat and Power".

I started at an Oil Co the first summer out of school and began cleaning boilers.

Ancient Snowmen boilers with 1920s & 1930s Petro oil burners that made more soot than heat. Came home every day looking like a chimney sweep.

A grease monkey wouldn't have been as dirty.

Foam in the TL means air in the fuel line.

Understand that if the fuel line is in a vacuum it will leak air in and you may not see any air leak out.

Find someone who can flare tubing.

Its no different than a pipe connection with a union. You don't tighten the union first, then try to spin the whole thing. End to end, if turning side A clockwise, side B goes counterclockwise. Not good. The union connections are at the pump for ease of service of the pump.

Or the dryer vent is next to the boiler God forbid

Thanks everyone. I will try to skim it this weekend and see what type of difference it makes. I've lived here less than a year so I don't know the whole history of this boiler but the tag on it says it hasn't been skimmed in 5 years. Not sure if this needs to be done more often.

All of my vents breath like this. In my system I believe it's the steam "inch worming" down the mains as the warm up. Steam pushes forward into the cool piping and condenses, sucking more steam into the space, over and over.

For now I'd concentrate on skimming your boiler and getting the water nice and clean. After that we'll see how it goes.

Do you have an accessible skim port, and do you know how to skim?

Kids Gotta bang around in menial jobs sometimes before they see things clearly..I did..Mad Dog