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What's wrong with this?

icesailor
icesailor Member Posts: 7,265
in Gas Heating
What's wrong with this?

Its supposed to be a DIY/home owner install. He smelled gas.

The Union is in the right place.



<a href="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2857/12848251344_2843916965_o.jpg">http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2857/12848251344_2843916965_o.jpg</a>

Comments

  • Steamhead
    Steamhead Member Posts: 17,375
    This is a candidate

    for the Darwin Awards.



    You can't fix stupid!
    All Steamed Up, Inc.
    Towson, MD, USA
    Steam, Vapor & Hot-Water Heating Specialists
    Oil & Gas Burner Service
    Consulting
  • ChrisJ
    ChrisJ Member Posts: 16,309
    Real?

    This can't be real, can it? It's gotta be a joke.

    Single pipe 392sqft system with an EG-40 rated for 325sqft and it's silent and balanced at all times.

  • icesailor
    icesailor Member Posts: 7,265
    I don't know.

    I don't know. If it was photo shopped, someone is very good. If someone piped it like that, maybe it was a gag.

    In my long experience, I have seen a lot of very odd things. There is nothing that would surprise me anymore. I can see some one not realizing that the tape on the gas valve over the hole would think that the gas goes somewhere else.

    I thought it worthy of a look.
  • Ironman
    Ironman Member Posts: 7,546
    No Drip Leg?

    Goodman does it again selling to anyone over the internet! And before someone defends them by saying there's no warranty or they don't know who their distributors sell to, let me remind you they have the best warranty tracking service through Benchmark. No, they know, but they'll sacrifice their reputation (whatever it's is) to turn a dollar. They're not the only ones, either.
    Bob Boan
    You can choose to do what you want, but you cannot choose the consequences.
  • Spence
    Spence Member Posts: 316
    There is Nothing Wrong

    It is the evaporator's job to convert liquid to gas.
  • Ironman
    Ironman Member Posts: 7,546
    In That Case...

    I'm surprised he didn't connect it to the suction line. :)
    Bob Boan
    You can choose to do what you want, but you cannot choose the consequences.
  • Tinman
    Tinman Member Posts: 2,808
    Wow

    WOW!
    Steve Minnich
  • hheaddon
    hheaddon Member Posts: 10
    Once before

    Seen something close to that years ago.  New kid sent to gas pipe to roof top package unit, saw the threaded outlet for the condo drain and piped up to it.  He left the valve off, as we were coming after him to wire and start up and test. Besides the wrong hole hook up, the piping looked great. And he was real new in the hvac trade.
  • RobG
    RobG Member Posts: 1,850
    No Habla

    No habla Ingles.



    At least he dripped some primer on the 90.



    Rob
  • Jack
    Jack Member Posts: 1,048
    Wish I could have been

    a fly on the wall watching him while he was trying to figure out what went where. Can you just see that picture? HMMM, scratching his chin...
  • Pughie1
    Pughie1 Member Posts: 135
    Electrical

    Must have been wired by a licensed electrician also.

    John Pughe
  • heatpro02920
    heatpro02920 Member Posts: 991
    Can't be real

    Someone had to have done this as a gag, even if they were stupid that would be hard to believe...



    I seen {with my own eyes} years ago a 1/2" gas line bushed down to feed a beckett oil burner, a friend of mine called me and asked where I was, he gave me an address to stop by and meet him for a laugh, so of course I go out of my way and meet him {this is before it was so easy to take a picture and text it along}... I get there and see the gas line running to the oil pump, a brand new install, done on a bank owned house someone stole the copper and boiler out of, I remember asking my helper {at the time, he is now a journeyman, lol} what he thought was wrong and he said "no fireomatic", Me and my friend laughed....



    Another system another contractor showed me at the supply house coffee and donut table had the smoke pipe ducted into a furnaces trunk line..



    BUT this on if it is real, takes the cake... I just cant see it being real...

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