Question for those of you left.

Steamhead

We were talking about 2 different things here. One is the vents themselves which should if possible be installed on nipples 6-inches above the pipe to be vented. The other was how the drip lines connect together above the boiler waterline- and Ben nailed that one perfectly.

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Bryan_5

For those of you that are left.

I have a question on my 2 pipe system I posted a thread on Steam release from my Hoffmann 75. Found that the Hoffman had a hole in the weld. I ordered my new Gorton#2's and they should be here soon. What my question is Steamhead mentioned that my vents were abouve the water line. These vents are on the mains. Does anyone have any pictures showing how this should be piped. This is a 2 pipe vapor system.

You can see the pics under my original thread http://forums.invision.net/Thread.cfm?CFApp=2&Thread_ID=6069&mc=23
Any thoughts would be appreciated
Thanks in advance
Bryan

Mark A. Custis

I am just a key stroke from you,

but knot in chicago.

You do very well pillgram, was/is it worth the trouble?

Put 'em in with about a 6" extention above the "T" . or wait till the real guys get back.

I have not done any thing with the "Gorton" stuff, so I must admit I am ignorant. B&G, ITT, Armstrong, Hoffman, all have sites that if you know the vocabulary you can know what to do. YOU will do very well.

Mark

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Ben_3

Bryan

I believe Steamhead was saying that when the mains tie in together in the boiler room they connect above the boilers water line. The orig. boiler probably had a much higher water line or when it was replaced whoever piped it felt that was the easiest place to connect them. What happens is the water used to seal the two mains off from each other to prevent the steam traveling down the shorter main or the one with the least restriction to flow from shutting off the other mains air vent before it could be completely vented. These should be tied in below the water line. Also the returns form the radaitors should tie in back at the boiler and in a vapor system would usually have a return trap or a hoffman loop or something like that to assist with putting the condensate back in the boiler. There is always an air vent on these to vent the rads and return qiuckly. That vent should probably be changed as well. And as said before when installing these you should raise them up @ least 6" from the tee to protect them from water hammer, etc. Hope this helps.

Bryan_5

A little confused

Ben,
You said that the vents should be raised 6 inches. I can understand that part. But you also say that they should also be below the boilers water line. So which is it? The T is 32 inches abouve the water line right now. I am a little confused so thanks in advance for your patience
Bryan

Bryan_5

Thanks for the clarification on this

Bryan_5

Thanks Ben and Steamhead, I received one of my gorton valves I think my order got messed up so I will have to call Ken back and get the other one sent, no big deal. I did replace the failed Hoffman with the new Gorton #2. Put it on a 6" nipple. I dont have to tell you but you would not beleive the difference it made. This was the warmest my house got all winter in the quickest time. I have also repacked a couple of my rad valves about 2 weeks ago, and have no leaking steam out
of them

The damnedist thing happend after putting on that new valve though. Even before the Hoffman went I had water hammer in some of the pipes. It was all gone with the new Gorton. The only thing I could hear last night was the beautiful sound of my boiler running. You cant beleive how nice that is. I almost feel like I should send you guys a check for your help. Maybe a beer if our paths should ever pass. Thanks again for all of your help. By the way my wife is very happy with the results.