What a disaster

Dave0176

Got a call to service and find out why so little heat. I found this disaster, and no the owner won't replace it. Anyway I had to bleed the loops and found a the extrol tank pissing, so I replaced that, (it isn't even piped properly, in fact the whole boiler isn't piped properly, wrong minimum pipe sizes, pumped to the return). I also thought it was under firing which I was right, I clocked the gas meter and found it burning 425,000 BTU, checked pressure was good, so I replaced the gas valve too, and now we're burning the proper 550,000 BTU. Anyway you can lead a horse to water but..........

SWEI

Yikes!

Were you able to eliminate the rollouts that left all those char marks?

njtommy

Unbelievable. I think you just adopted a problem child.

Tinman

Ya gotta love the switches mounted directly to the pumps.

Abracadabra

Stephen Minnich said:

Ya gotta love the switches mounted directly to the pumps.

Don't have to label the switches then

Ironman

Why the shutoff valve AFTER the gas valve? Was some knucklehead trying to throttle the gas down because of the flame roll out on the left side?

kcopp

From the looks of the roll out I wonder if the chimney is pulling a draft...prob not lined.

Gordy

Ironman said:

Why the shutoff valve AFTER the gas valve? Was some knucklehead trying to throttle the gas down because of the flame roll out on the left side?

Be the only reason I can think of. Genius waiting to happen......................and still waiting.

Dave0176

I did a combustion test with my testo and everything seemed alright, had good draft. Who knows what shoemaker worked on this thing in the past.

EzzyT

Dave you'll be back there plenty nurturing that disaster.