New Year, New Boiler!

Steamhead

Another atmospheric with a hole above the waterline. This could be habit-forming.....



This system is counterflow, and may have originally run its condensate straight back into the original boiler's steam outlet. We removed a 2"x2"x3" bullhead tee that was feeding steam into both mains, and it looks like the drip lines were added sometime after the system was first installed.

Steamhead

We installed a Slant/Fin Intrepid this time

since it fit the available space better than the Smith G-8 would have. Burner is the Carlin EZ-Gas. Gordon's piping artistry can be seen on the drip-line manifold.



The owners are planning an addition, and if built we will heat it with steam. We left a 2" tee in the short steam main for this, and there's room to tie in another drip line. The boiler is big enough to handle the addition, and is down-fired in its present state. Still had good combustion numbers though!



Happy New Year all- keep steaming!

gerry gill

Nice looking job on the replacement.

As always, well done! Now thats one heck of a hole in that section..crap, you could put a baseball thru that gap...were they taking on lots of water??

Steamhead

Not recently that I know of

the VXT will tell us for sure. We've worked on this system a few times, but I haven't gotten around to pulling the file on it. 

billtwocase

as usual

Nice work steam

Rod

Nice Job!

Nice looking installation! I was just wondering , How thick is the boiler wall normally at the point where it corroded through? Do they all corrode through in the same area?

- Rod

Steamhead

I think

it's 1/8" or 3/16", not exactly sure, Maybe I'll have time to check before sending it to China.



This one and the one before did corrode in almost exactly the same place.

Mark N

Rot Hole

That boiler looks to be a Burnham Independence. Just like the other one you did. Burnham has extremely restrictive instructions for make-up water for the Independence. I have an IN-4 and the manual states no more than .1 gallons a month or 1 gallon a year. A similarly sized Megasteam is allowed 6 gallons a month. My system has no leaks that I can find and I lose about a 1/2 gallon a month. Before I add water I always flush sediment so I probably add 1gallon a month. Good thing I have a probe LWCO or I'd be adding even more water.

Steamhead

Hmmmmmmmmm

have to ask about that. I didn't call out the brand, didn't want to look like I was bashing Burnham.

Steamhead

Thanks

for the kind words!