How To Kill A Boiler

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How To Kill A Boiler

In this episode, Dan Holohan shares a murder mystery involving a troubled heating system and a well-intentioned suspect.

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jpm659er

I love Dan’s real world stories! The thing that comes to my mind with these two stories:
What about the piping of the whole system? How badly is it affected by all the fresh water?

Jamie Hall

Building supers are a much underappreciated clan...

retiredguy

I, like most of us, love and appreciate your educational stories Dan. In my 40+ years in this industry this was a quick and cheap fix more often than we like to think. I saw what fresh water could do to a Bryant Flex Tube Steam Boiler at a county old age home. These 2 boilers plugged up in one week to the point that the power burner flame was burning through the steel boiler tubes and flooding the boiler room. This was a brand new set of boilers and when I approached the architect/engineer to tell him the problem, he told me that I was an idiot and that the boiler was at fault not the fresh water.

DanHolohan

Thanks, guys. 

SwiK52

I enjoy your stories as they are interesting get to the answers. Thanks for sharing another interesting topic about STEAM!

Steamfighter49

Happily when I added water line traps ( which I thought were my brilliant idea until Dan started talking about them) I piped them to the condensate / vacuum pump.
Which accomplished saving the pump until I could talk the owner into trap PM.
Another story.

Duff

Great story, thanks Dan