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Strange chemicals
Bluenose_12
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This is got to be the strangest call I have got in a long time.It starts with a no heat in part of the building call I recieved from a small sound stage/movie production building.This building's heating system consists of radiant on the main floor and baseboard and unit heaters on the second. Upon arrival I found no heat on the whole second floor. After checking on a few things in the boiler room and finding no obvious problemsn (Circs running, boiler pressure up) I started asking questions to the maintenance man.He mentioned that he got his helper to add chemicals to the bypass chemical feeder. So I ask what chemicals, he showed me a empty jug with no label and when we looked inside I started laughing at the poor fellows misfortune and at the task ahead of me. Moly-film is what it should have been , but instead it was liquid latex/rubber that they use to make mask/ makeup for the movies.
It plugged(coated with rubber) the strainers just before the circs and put a little coating of rubber on the pumps impellers. After cleaning these up the heat started to flow. Now I'm wondering if I should be doing anything for the rest of the system. I flushed the piping a various parts of the system and didn't see any evidence that it got any further than that.Any suggestions will be appreciated.
It plugged(coated with rubber) the strainers just before the circs and put a little coating of rubber on the pumps impellers. After cleaning these up the heat started to flow. Now I'm wondering if I should be doing anything for the rest of the system. I flushed the piping a various parts of the system and didn't see any evidence that it got any further than that.Any suggestions will be appreciated.
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