Boiler wand tips.

STEAM DOCTOR

 You can wand through any taping that goes straight through the boiler. Take 1/8" steel nipple. Drill bunch of small holes in the side. Put cap at end of nipple. Hook up proper length of pipe or nipples, depending on boiler size. Use Sharkbite fitting (can't believe I said that) and transition to ball valve. The Sharkie allows you to easily rotate the wand inside the boiler. Connect ball valve to water heater drain (turn to pilot and run water till cold) or slop sink drain. This can be done from the boiler return tappings for the skim tapping if it goes all the way through or even pressure relief tapping. 

STEAM DOCTOR

For the sake of full transparency, I have never wanded through the top. But should work. Would be a bit more of a challenge clean the mud legs of the boiler properly. But should still work to some extent.

STEAM DOCTOR

STEAM DOCTOR

When dealing with small openings, just use 1/8 inch piping all the way through the boiler. Have a pipe nipple sticking out from the boiler and place a bucket underneath to catch the water. Use a water transfer pump if available. Or just dump bucket as you go. Second bucket would make that easier. 

mattmia2

Depending on how you make everything, you can make a hose with hose adapters and clear plastic tubing that will have a lot more flow than washing machine hoses but that depends on if your wand is big enough to provide that flow.

STEAM DOCTOR

I would think that you would have trouble getting a plastic hose through. Would be too flexible. Maybe. The washing machine hose is not going inside the boiler in my setup. Just providing the water to the wand. 

mattmia2

STEAM DOCTOR said:

I would think that you would have trouble getting a plastic hose through. Would be too flexible. Maybe. The washing machine hose is not going inside the boiler in my setup. Just providing the water to the wand. 

That's what i meant, the hose to hook up the wand, not the wand itself. Most of those washing machine hoses are pretty small id although it looks like you have one of the larger ones.

STEAM DOCTOR

mattmia2 said:

I would think that you would have trouble getting a plastic hose through. Would be too flexible. Maybe. The washing machine hose is not going inside the boiler in my setup. Just providing the water to the wand. 

That's what i meant, the hose to hook up the wand, not the wand itself. Most of those washing machine hoses are pretty small id although it looks like you have one of the larger ones.

Got it. I use the larger ones for these things. They are not hard to find but you got to look for them. 

ChrisJ

That is really not what I thought this thread was about from the title...........