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Re: Green Building Advisor: How AI will change your job
I know plenty of living breathing people who will do the same too! 🤣
Iron Fireman
Someone buy this for @leonz !!!
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Here's the history of this Coal Stoker:
Re: Old water system
Because someone doesn't understand steam and was good at taking people's money.
Re: Iron Fireman
Leon you're an addict.
But when you can forge in the basement with your boiler, you become an addict. Heated up a 3/8 diameter exhaust hanger rod cause it needed bent a little. I let it go about two minutes, the end melted off. Crap.
Re: What would you do? Thread or remove.
I'm seriously considering that Megapress system. I tried one of the fittings with some penetrating oil overnight, then Mapp gas heat today with a 36" pipe wrench. Nothing. Not a bit of movement. I have a total of 14 fittings, all stuck up high in the corner and in hard to reach places. They were cut at all sorts of angles, so I would have to recut them nice and square, which is not a big deal. May be worth the money on those Megapress fittings ($35 each) just to get it done. Alternative is all kinds of grunt work, some I would have to cut at the radiators, etc. All sorts of messing around.
Gjansen
Re: What would you do? Thread or remove.
@Gjansen To quote:
From Archimedes: : Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
36" pipe wrench is too small, you need 6' extension on it.
@PC7060 The home depot special:
Kaos
Re: What would you do? Thread or remove.
Were your radiators used as a closed expansion tank system by leaving an air charge in each radiator creating the point of no pressure change or do you have an open to air expansion tank in the attic?
You could use an EFMDF520 stoker boiler with a gas burner with its large steam chest and tapping and leave your existing system intact. It would save you a lot of work and money giving you a boiler that would work just like your snowman conversion boiler.
The EFM DF520 coal stoker boiler is certified and pressure tested for steam heat as a standard certification. You would not have to use the coal stoker if you have no desire to do so.
leonz