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Slowing a one pipe steam rad

Jeff_4 Member Posts: 15

October 2002 in THE MAIN WALL

Is it true that as you slow one steam radiator through its venting, you speed up the others....?

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Steamhead Member Posts: 17,384

October 2002

If you have good main-line vents

it shouldn't. But if the main vents are missing or undersized, it probably will.

Main vents are crucial to one-pipe steam system operation.

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