Weil-McLain decided to change their mind.....!!!

Dave0176

Spoke to the Weil-McLain rep yesterday at my supply house Christmas party and he said they’ve decided it was a bad move and they did not expect the blow back they got. He said they may inform everyone about it (you know the way they informed everyone of the change lol) but their going to be tapping the second riser again on all PEG boilers.

Fred

Way to go @Dave0176 ! Hopefully they learned a lesson with this maneuver and will consider their customers before making these kinds of changes. I'm sure, as with all (or most) Corporate environments, they will now have a boondogle workshop or seminar on "Lessons Learned". That's Ok if the lesson was learned!

Dan_NJ

Just in time for Festivus

STEAM DOCTOR

Any word on the Williamsons

Dave0176

STEAM DOCTOR said:

Any word on the Williamsons

Same.....

I did tell the rep to suggest leaving the plug out of the tapping and letting us decide to use it or not, would save them some dough. I said Peerless does it like that.

STEAM DOCTOR

Thanks. They should also leave plug out of right side return tapping.

ChrisJ

When I bought my EG back in 2011 none of the plugs were installed. Was this because it was a knockdown it did they start doing it later?

Dave0176

ChrisJ said:

When I bought my EG back in 2011 none of the plugs were installed. Was this because it was a knockdown it did they start doing it later?

Chris you purchased the knockdown boiler, that comes with nothing installed.

STEAM DOCTOR

Would also be great if they offered option of controls on right or left side. Might be a bit to much to ask for

BobC

That they listened to the blowback is good, it's a shame Burnham doesn't do likewise.

Bob

Mike Cascio

Thats great news Dave! Interesting how we were discussing this the other day and then the good news comes out!

STEVEusaPA

Alrighty then!!! What do we need to get changed next?
Social media pressure works!?1

STEAM DOCTOR

One big question still remaining. How many of the one riser boilers are out there? If I go tomorrow to pick up a boiler, will I be getting one with one riser tapping or two?

Dave0176

STEAM DOCTOR said:

Would also be great if they offered option of controls on right or left side. Might be a bit to much to ask for

I asked the rep about that too, I said wouldn’t it save the money only having to cast one right side end section. The EGH right end section is is tapped for controls. I said that kinda makes the boiler universal fit, he said not a bad idea. We shall see. I doubt it.

Dave0176

STEAM DOCTOR said:

One big question still remaining. How many of the one riser boilers are out there? If I go tomorrow to pick up a boiler, will I be getting one with one riser tapping or two?

Rep told me their finishing up running the current run, then they will switch, so yes there is going to probably be a 3-6 month supply of one tapped boilers sitting in our plumbing supply’s. This is the current series 5 which will be obsoleted and probably a series 6 introduced.

STEAM DOCTOR

> @Dave0176 said:
> One big question still remaining. How many of the one riser boilers are out there? If I go tomorrow to pick up a boiler, will I be getting one with one riser tapping or two?
>
> Rep told me their finishing up running the current run, then they will switch, so yes there is going to probably be a 3-6 month supply of one tapped boilers sitting in our plumbing supply’s. This is the current series 5 which will be obsoleted and probably a series 6 introduced.

Ok. So that means Peerless for many of the jobs for next 6 months.

zackwatt

That's great to hear!!!

ethicalpaul

Rep told me their finishing up running the current run, then they will switch, so yes there is going to probably be a 3-6 month supply of one tapped boilers sitting in our plumbing supply’s. This is the current series 5 which will be obsoleted and probably a series 6 introduced.

If anyone hears of any single supply WM-EG-30s or Williamson 075s on discount, drop me a line

Steamhead

BobC said:

That they listened to the blowback is good, it's a shame Burnham doesn't do likewise.

Bob

Maybe that's our next move- MegaSteam with gas gun!

mikeg2015

The steam boiler world equivalent of “new coke”.