Thank You - Gods of the Wall!!!!

Steamhead (in transit)

whoever installed the Weil tried to disguise that copper header with black paint.

That main vent looks rather small- do all the rads heat up evenly?

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Cast Iron

Thank You - Gods of the Wall

I would just like to thank all of you who participate in this forum for the advice you have given, and I have absorbed, reagarding steam heating. We replaced our old EG-35 (It wasn't actually that old) with a new 5 section burnham. The old boiler pics are attached.

Although the installer skimmed the boiler initially, the water line was still bouncing around. So following the advice here, I skimmed it some more and voila, the water line stopped moving when the unit was on. It is quiet and fast. Thanks again for all your advice.

Cast Iron

It's a Vent Rite 35

I was thinking the same thing. Following your advice and that Steam Venting ebook. I took it off and fired the boiler. Steam came out of that vent in about 2 minutes. with the vent about 4.5 minutes till hot in that area. I am trying to decide if it's worth the $ to upgrade. Currently its a Vent Rite 35, I think a Gorton 2 should to the trick. 18' of 2" main before it gets to that smaller pipe return.
It does heat evenly, but I am thinking I could speed it up? I assume the Gorton would fit in the same hole?

And thank you Steamhead, I have found your posts/ Brad's/Mad Dog/ and other regulars very interesting.

Unknown

noted the second riser is capped,...

I would have liked to see it in use.

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Dan_29

How old was your WM eg 35? Did you ever find out what caused it to leak? I just had a WM peg eg 55 installed, therefore, I am curious. The current guarantee on the boiler sections is 10 years. Due to your comments about maintaining the new Burnham, I assume your maintained the WM eg also.

Happy heating with the Burnham.

Dan

Dave_4

The EG 35 was I think only 17 years old. We just purchased the house a couple years ago. The previous owner was an elderly person who I think, may have let the water level get too low. I noticed that the autofeed was much newer than the EG-35, so I am sure that it went off on low water a couple times before the autofeeder was installed.

Home Depot Employee

Recheck your install manual, the horizontal pipe after the supply is too long, the distance from riser elbow to supply may be too short and the equalization pipe is'nt reduced after the downturn elbow. I would have liked to see the second riser connected but then you would have had to move and reconfigure the supply to the house. That all explains the surging and probable efficency loss

Steamhead (in transit)

You do need more venting

go ahead and spring for the #2. You'll also need a 3/4x1/2-inch bushing since the #2 has a 1/2-inch male thread on it.

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Unknown

A few questions

Is there a maximum distance for a horizontal pipe before it drops down to the equalizer ? If it's pitched down to the equalizer ? The pipe in question looks around 12 inches . You're saying even that is too long ?

And does the equalizer pipe HAVE to be reduced ?

Honestly , I've never heard of an equalizer being too big . But you never know .

Home Depot Employee

Here is a link right to the Burnham install page on pipe sizes. Note it shows the drop in equalizer line size(just doesnt say why)

http://www.burnham.com/pdfs/CurrentPDFfiles/8141049.pdf

Another prospective: (page 11)

http://www.weil-mclain.com/FTP/EG-EGH/EG_EGH_BoilerManual.pdf

My experience with the shorter nipple after the supply take off and before the reducing 90 down to the equalization is to keep it shorter for less surging. Regarding the inlet side of the supply tee, steam (vapor) likes to see some straight pipe before being forced to change directions again.