What If The Boiler Had Been 3" Taller?

New England SteamWorks

You have to wonder how they would have piped it....

New England SteamWorks

Being a Burnham, you guess what ails her...

Time for a Weil 80:

EBEBRATT-Ed

Looking good!! good job cleaning up that mess.

That #63 MM on the old photo looks like it was pretty low........maybe just the photo angle

New England SteamWorks

We Gerry Gilled the buried returns:

Fred

Another beauty @RI_SteamWorks !!

New England SteamWorks

All dressed up now...

BobC

i love boiler porn.

Bob

ratio

@RI_SteamWorks, That's two separate controls headers? With just an up & over & down to trap them, no piggy tail? Nice. Do you find you have to prime it with water, or does it fill up find by itself?

New England SteamWorks

ratio said:

@RI_SteamWorks, That's two separate controls headers? With just an up & over & down to trap them, no piggy tail? Nice. Do you find you have to prime it with water, or does it fill up find by itself?

Thank you. Yes, two separate, and it primes itself.

EzzyT

@RI_SteamWorks Beautiful install as always

Steamhead

EzzyT said:

@RI_SteamWorks Beautiful install as always

Agreed. But why the float-type LWCO? The 80 series is tapped for probes.......

New England SteamWorks

Steamhead said:

Agreed. But why the float-type LWCO? The 80 series is tapped for probes.......

Ha. You'd laugh if you knew the whole story, but the short version is it ships with 2 of them...

Steamhead

On a gravity-return job, we usually return those for credit, and install the primary probe LWCO in tapping F2 (lower try-cock tapping) and the secondary in tapping P (secondary level control tapping). These are all 1" and can be bushed down as needed. F2 is rather close to the sight glass but a McDonnell & Miller PS-800-series LWCO will fit.

I tried to capture just the tapping page but couldn't. The manual is here:

http://www.weil-mclain.com/sites/default/files/field-file/80-manual_1.pdf

And here are some pics showing how they fit:

http://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/153445/boiler-replacement-on-larger-webster-type-r-system-finally-ready-to-post

Unfortunately, many people don't blow down float-type LWCOs, so we've gone to probes everywhere we can. The most recent boiler replacement we posted was a dry-fire from a stuck float-type LWCO.