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Old Bryant boiler replacement piping

StephenQuattrucci
StephenQuattrucci Member Posts: 11
edited October 2018 in Strictly Steam


looking to find out what the device on this steam system is and how I should pipe it back Ito a new boiler.

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  • JUGHNE
    JUGHNE Member Posts: 11,248
    Any name or numbers on it?
    And can you show where the top 2 pipes go to?
    And the other side of the boiler?
    kcopp
  • kcopp
    kcopp Member Posts: 4,462
    Wow a gate valve on the gas supply.
    JUGHNE
  • nicholas bonham-carter
    nicholas bonham-carter Member Posts: 8,578
    It's probably a reservoir tank, but it's mounted too high to do its job.
    Its horizontal midpoint needs to be on the same height as the boiler water-level.--NBC
  • HVACNUT
    HVACNUT Member Posts: 6,220
    I guess that's from pre Hartford Loop days.

    That's a side shot domestic coil no?
  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 16,255
    Alternating receiver. Uses steam pressure to move water back into the boiler. Old vapor system. Need to keep the waterline at the same height, and that's not the original boiler obviously
    HVACNUT
  • StephenQuattrucci
    StephenQuattrucci Member Posts: 11
    I found in Dan's companion to "Lost Art of Steam Heating" a section on Direct Return Steam traps. Finally here on the day of reckoning, 3 days before Thanksgiving installing new boiler! Do I pipe the new boiler in with equalizer and Hartford loop? There is none of that on this boiler now. Everything about the near boiler piping looks wrong. looking for "Dead Men" Advice
  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 16,255
    yes to equalizer and Hartford loop. Follow the piping diagram in the boiler manual

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