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Hercules Flip Stick?

Nick W
Nick W Member Posts: 200
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Has anyone used this product in a residential gas boiler? What does it do?


http://www.herchem.com/Products/FSTICK.html


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  • scrook_2
    scrook_2 Member Posts: 610
    MSDS says...

    it contains Cupric Chloride. I'd guess the chlorine attacks the carbon and creosote deposits (in preference to the metal in the boiler and flue), and copper was probably the most convienent metal to use to make the chloride salt. Not sure I'd use it in anything but a wood (or maybe coal) fired application though -- why do you ask?
  • Ken_8
    Ken_8 Member Posts: 1,640
    Since it is aimed at soot

    why would a typical gas boiler require one? A gas boiler producing free carbon (soot) needs a lot more than a soot stick!

    These are typically used in oil boilers with passages that are so dificult to completely clean - the service tech may throw one or two into the combustion chamber to get as much of what a good brushing and vacuuming may have left behind. Under no circumstance are they a substitute for a brush out and vacuum (or as some do - a water rinse/cleaning)!

    The action is purely chemical. The "salts" react chemically and strip/burn free carbon from the fireside of an oil boiler HX (or scorched air) and wood & coal burning equipment.

    The rare times we use them, they seem to simply turn the black soot to white and perhaps help a little.

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