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jrbayside
jrbayside Member Posts: 81
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put smaller gortons on the rads to slow up venting, disconnected the rad to the one cold tee, main is hot (where t is) 3 inches away from main its cold. Dont know what to try next. There is another T off hot main and that also is cold. Put gorton d (4 of them on riser) still cold. What next.

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  • Steamhead
    Steamhead Member Posts: 16,861
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    Something is keeping the steam

    from reaching that point. Check for restrictions such as water pockets. Does the system bang when it's running? 
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  • jrbayside
    jrbayside Member Posts: 81
    edited March 2012
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    there is no banging anywhere in the whole building. The main is hot, but where it tee's off,

    it gets cold. There are two tee's off the main about 4 feet from the end of the run, I put 2 Gorton #2s on the end but still can't get those 2 tee's hot. 1 goes to a riser which feeds 3 rads. I slowed down all the other rads in building with smaller vents, but still not getting anywhere. Still stumped.



    p.s. pitch is good, find no water pockets, I think its still air but dont know what to do next
  • Dave in QCA
    Dave in QCA Member Posts: 1,786
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    What radiators did you put slower vents on?  What vents are you using?  Please make a list of all radiators, the EDR of you have that, and what vent is on the radiator.  It sounds like one of two possibilities... either you have too agressive of venting on some of the radiators in the system and they are hogging the steam, or on the riser that is remaining cold, there might be a horizontal section up above, say at the floor level of the second floor, that is not pitched properly and is setting full of water.
    Dave in Quad Cities, America
    Weil-McLain 680 with Riello 2-stage burner, December 2012. Firing rate=375MBH Low, 690MBH Hi.
    System = Early Dunham 2-pipe Vacuo-Vapor (inlet and outlet both at bottom of radiators) Traps are Dunham #2 rebuilt w. Barnes-Jones Cage Units, Dunham-Bush 1E, Mepco 1E, and Armstrong TS-2. All valves haveTunstall orifices sized at 8 oz.
    Current connected load EDR= 1,259 sq ft, Original system EDR = 2,100 sq ft Vaporstat, 13 oz cutout, 4 oz cutin - Temp. control Tekmar 279.
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