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Steam ghost

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gcp13
gcp13 Member Posts: 122
in Strictly Steam
No heat call, removed radiator valve and

Found the steam about 10' away

Moving up an back in the pipe

Took a video

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7ZNXihL_Sk&feature=em-upload_owner">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7ZNXihL_Sk&feature=em-upload_owner</a>

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  • JStar
    JStar Member Posts: 2,752
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    Ghost

    Who ya' gonna call?



    Methinks that ghost has aa name,,,Wet Steam. Or maybe his brother, Sagging Main.
  • gcp13
    gcp13 Member Posts: 122
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    Both

    Yeh this boiler piping is a mess

    The end of main comes back to the boiler an is

    Back pitched before the main vents

    Making them useless an causing the condensate

    To back up the main
  • Dave_154
    Dave_154 Member Posts: 25
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    Cool Video

    Braver than I would be. :)
  • ChrisJ
    ChrisJ Member Posts: 15,704
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    Ugh

    Oh no not Sagging main and Wet steam.  I hate those guys.

    Very cool video, thanks for sharing!
    Single pipe quasi-vapor system. Typical operating pressure 0.14 - 0.43 oz. EcoSteam ES-20 Advanced Control for Residential Steam boilers. Rectorseal Steamaster water treatment
  • Steve Nichols
    Steve Nichols Member Posts: 124
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    pulsing

    That is a cool video.  If you watch the vortexes being formed by the steam, they ebb and flow which may mean there is water in the main?  Looks like a pulsing action.  I recall Dan talking about this in TLAOSH with "waves of water" alternately and exposing the riser to steam.  Or maybe just a ghost; that's cool, too.

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  • ChrisJ
    ChrisJ Member Posts: 15,704
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    Like this?

    Something like this?



    http://youtu.be/VBa7DSSmWrE



    I love these videos.
    Single pipe quasi-vapor system. Typical operating pressure 0.14 - 0.43 oz. EcoSteam ES-20 Advanced Control for Residential Steam boilers. Rectorseal Steamaster water treatment
  • gcp13
    gcp13 Member Posts: 122
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    10 ' from main

    This was a ceiling radiator 10 ' from a 4" main

    In the basement apt.while boiler was in high fire

    Fire for an hour

    Going to use a water level to check pitch

    On main today and repipe drip return

    Will skim boiler too
  • gcp13
    gcp13 Member Posts: 122
    edited November 2013
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    Boiler leak

    Found boiler leaking out the chimney

    She's a leaker tried some boiler liquid no luck
  • rmoore007ri
    rmoore007ri Member Posts: 45
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    video

    That video is incredible . . . Makes it all real just like the glass piping pics in Greening Stem :-)
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