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I'm repairing/restoring a 50 year young residential oil fired boiler. There is quite a bit of sediment, mineral deposits, sludge on the waterside. It's a cast iron, vertical tube single pass heat exchanger. I was planning to pump in TSP in solution, then heat and soak in overnight. The commercially available cleaners are just a bit too gentle. Any thoughts? Thankx.
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What kind of heat do you have ?
If it's mostly copper , the mild boiler cleaner will be more than adequate .
Even if you have old cast iron rads and large diameter steel piping , you really don't need to clean the system with anything stronger . Unless it was leaking for a long time . Most of the crud works it's way back to the boiler and stays there . So once you change it out that's most of the battle .
I like to use Stewart Hall 8-Way boiler treatment . Comes with every System 2000 we install . Purge the system a little , let it heat up and circulate then do a full purge and it's set .0
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