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Re: Firomatic/Filter/Tigerloop setup with all NPT okay?
@seized123, I have been following your oil tank/fuel line project for some time now. It seams that you want to learn everything you can from the code to best practice to the industry's standard procedure. along with asking many questions about this topic herein and other places of information in the web and elsewhere. Might I suggest that before copper tubing was widely used, fuel oil piping was installed using steel pipe and cast iron fittings. You might want to purchase a few lengths of 3/8" steel pipe, or better yet, galvanized pipe.
You could use all kinds of valves, fittings, elbows, couplings, filters, and unions to make a path for your fuel from the bottom of the tank to the oil burner fuel pump. in order to secure it in place there are several beam clamps and hanging devices. in fact you could get yourself a few I-Beams to put in your basement ceiling in order to have a place to attach those beam clamps. Think of how well your home will stand up against mother nature, knowing that you have such a strong and permanent fuel pipe between your oil tank and oil burner.
I know I will feel much better with the knowledge that you have the best oil line in the country!
Just kidding.
You could use all kinds of valves, fittings, elbows, couplings, filters, and unions to make a path for your fuel from the bottom of the tank to the oil burner fuel pump. in order to secure it in place there are several beam clamps and hanging devices. in fact you could get yourself a few I-Beams to put in your basement ceiling in order to have a place to attach those beam clamps. Think of how well your home will stand up against mother nature, knowing that you have such a strong and permanent fuel pipe between your oil tank and oil burner.
I know I will feel much better with the knowledge that you have the best oil line in the country!
Just kidding.
Re: Jal
Found it in the Daily News - November 1961. It's also in other papers a week before/after. Please don't yell at me for not blacking out the pricing at Cowboy Al's (some of you probably still have the 'free ball point pen')
Re: Firomatic/Filter/Tigerloop setup with all NPT okay?
Thanks @EdTheHeaterMan, but I thought of all that, and I’m all finished, see photo. (I also asked a lot of questions over at PipelineHelp.com.) 
Re: Snowmelt
The engineer is a dope. Considering he/they are going against all best practices and conventional wisdom, ask him/them for proof it's not needed, and ask him to sign off on this with language that he/they accept all liability and agree to pay all costs to repair/fix the project when it doesn't work as expected.
Note: the dual pronouns is simply because it could be one engineer or their firm. It's not to comply with any ridiculous notion of insulting someone by using the wrong pronoun.
Note: the dual pronouns is simply because it could be one engineer or their firm. It's not to comply with any ridiculous notion of insulting someone by using the wrong pronoun.
Re: Should I replace my well pressure tank? Pictures of inlet
Can you even buy a mercury switch any more😗leonz said:It is condensation, you only need to replace it if the bladder is ripped and you have problems with pressure and pump cycling to much because of the lack of resistance from a gas charge in the tank. If you want to spend time on your system you could install a large water storage tank and mercury switches to control the deep well submersible (assuming this is what you have) and create a no back pressure operating system allowing the well pump to simply slow to a stop and run on a timer rather than be forced to stop with a bladder tank. If you have a 2 pipe jet system it will work the same way and you can use a small self priming centrifugal shallow well pump from the storage tank to feed the homes water supply.
hot_rod
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Re: Suntec pump leak or return line leak ...
@STEVEusaPA I have not asked 300 questions, I have asked 423.5, and if you want me to drive you even more nuts see the latest post on the old 2 to 1 pipe thread, complete with diagram.
Re: Axiom mini feeder question
I guess it's difficult for some to digest the notion of "properly sized and charged".Happy to see you agree with the math, science, and sizing tables
hot_rod
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Re: This weeks case
Physically moved a new thermostat to a location that the employees could not see, but left the old one on the wall in the same location so the employees thought they were adjusting the thermostat.
GGross
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Re: Electric Radiant Snow & Ice Melt System.
Mmmmmm, that'll be a nice electric bill!
190amps at 240 volts is 45.6kW. So at an average of $0.20 a kWh, that's $9.12/hour of operation. Or 1/3 of that at a time.
190amps at 240 volts is 45.6kW. So at an average of $0.20 a kWh, that's $9.12/hour of operation. Or 1/3 of that at a time.
