New vs. Old Burnham Independence

Long Beach Ed

We've installed a number of Burnham SteamMax boilers.

But does anyone know if the Independence boilers sold today are any different from the Independence sold ten years ago which suffered from graphitic corrosion ? Has Burnham modified their Independence in any way?

Since the passing of Glen Stanton, we haven't built any close relationship with US Boiler's engineering folks who can give us an answer.

Anyone know? Just for the record, we've got a whole bunch of Independence boilers with no corrosion problems that we've installed some 19 years ago.

LRCCBJ

NOBODY actually knows anything.

The history of the boiler goes from people losing the boiler at 5 years to people (such as you) having it last 20 years.

My personal opinion is that random castings are simply full of impurities and those castings don't last two years before the corrosion can actually be seen starting.

There isn't much quality control at a foundry!!

You buy an Independence and roll the dice. That's it.

Mad Dog_2

I've been told, they Are a different & better design and after installing a number of Steamax's I concur. Mad Dog