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Trying to identify this item-gas?

creger.robert
creger.robert Member Posts: 40
in Thermostats and Controls

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  • JUGHNE
    JUGHNE Member Posts: 11,279
    edited March 2020
    Is it connected to those, what appear to be, water lines?

    And where do those 2 small copper lines go to?
  • Fred
    Fred Member Posts: 8,542
    It looks like a splitter of some kind but I doubt it is gas??? Doesn't look like it's connected to anything other than the one line. Is it just laying on the pipe, below it? What's on the backside of it?
  • HomerJSmith
    HomerJSmith Member Posts: 2,635
    A gas pressure regulator with an atmospheric vent?
  • HVACNUT
    HVACNUT Member Posts: 6,332
    Who am I, Kreskin?
    What's under the foil and pipe insulation?
    Looks like a regulator.
    STEVEusaPA
  • mattmia2
    mattmia2 Member Posts: 10,948
    What does the end with the flange connections that looks like they are either blanked off or open look like?
  • Zman
    Zman Member Posts: 7,611
    A picture of the other side would help.
    "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough"
    Albert Einstein
    mattmia2
  • EdTheHeaterMan
    EdTheHeaterMan Member Posts: 9,386
    Is that an oil to gas conversion valve? or does it change water into wine? :D

    Need a picture of the other side!

    Edward Young Retired

    After you make that expensive repair and you still have the same problem, What will you check next?

  • JUGHNE
    JUGHNE Member Posts: 11,279
    Old school 100 pound LPG bottles sometimes had a special regulator connected to both bottles. It would somehow switch to your second bottle when the first run low.
    Those regs would have been outside at the bottles though.
    HVACNUT
  • JUGHNE
    JUGHNE Member Posts: 11,279
    I see now just one copper connected......the other is a mortar joint.....bad eyes.

    I just looked thru old 1980's Fisher and Rego catalogs and the auto change over regulators don't look like that.
    There are apparently auto change over regs for campers/RV's etc.

    Another oddity I have come across is some basements are mixing valves for WC supply. A little warm water into the tank keeps it from sweating.

    All those were brass though.
    I think those got coded out for energy standards etc.
    Now almost all houses have AC so tanks not sweating as much.
  • ChrisJ
    ChrisJ Member Posts: 16,316
    Until we get a picture of the other side, which probably has writing on it...........

    I don't see this going anywhere.

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

    mattmia2
  • unclejohn
    unclejohn Member Posts: 1,833
    I think its part of the hookie pookie.
  • retiredguy
    retiredguy Member Posts: 977
    It looks like a very old pneumatic valve actuator. Is this thing in a large building with or at 1 time had pneumatic temperature controls
  • EdTheHeaterMan
    EdTheHeaterMan Member Posts: 9,386
    unclejohn said:

    I think its part of the hookie pookie.

    ...just turn yourself around!

    Now that 's what it's all about!

    Edward Young Retired

    After you make that expensive repair and you still have the same problem, What will you check next?

  • mattmia2
    mattmia2 Member Posts: 10,948
    Knowing where that tubing goes seems important. Is it or was it attached to something in that location or did someone just shove the whole thing in the basement 50 years ago.
  • BillyO
    BillyO Member Posts: 277
    looks like its attached to bracket but not pipe

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