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GW
GW Member Posts: 5,137
edited December 24 in Strictly Steam

here’s a new one, any ideas? The steam piping remnant was sitting on the ground.it seems to be a tin bottle of sorts, leaded onto the pipe.

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Gary Wilson
Wilson Services, Inc
Northampton, MA
gary@wilsonph.com

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  • Intplm.
    Intplm. Member Posts: 2,831

    WHAT THE HECK?

  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 19,621

    Guess he didn't have a plug or a cap. Where there is a will there is a way.

    Reminds me of an electrical forum I was on someone made an electrical box out of a tuna fish can.

    I hope he drank what was in the bottle and didn't waste it.

    kcoppGW
  • JUGHNE
    JUGHNE Member Posts: 11,513

    Air chamber for water hammer?

  • mattmia2
    mattmia2 Member Posts: 15,647

    was it 2 pipe? maybe it was the open vent of the returns

  • Waher
    Waher Member Posts: 365

    I think it’s an air vent. Crude version of a Hoffman 75. Is there a hole at the top?

  • mattmia2
    mattmia2 Member Posts: 15,647

    if you scrape it, is it tinned copper?

    DanHolohan
  • Mad Dog_2
    Mad Dog_2 Member Posts: 8,414

    Shunt Feeder? Mad Dog

    Consulting by Mad Dog & Matt Jr.
  • GW
    GW Member Posts: 5,137

    not sure I’ll be back at this job any time soon- I’ll scratch it if I get back there

    Gary Wilson
    Wilson Services, Inc
    Northampton, MA
    gary@wilsonph.com
  • Intplm.
    Intplm. Member Posts: 2,831

    If that was done during the depression, I can understand this. Ive seen some jobs/things done in homes that were done during the desperation era of the depression.

    GW
  • mattmia2
    mattmia2 Member Posts: 15,647
    edited December 26

    Or WWII when you couldn't get stuff.

    I think the people that grew up in the depression saving everything comes more from WWII and the first years following it where there was just stuff you couldn't get at any price. It wasn't as much about being afraid they couldn't afford it again but more that there wouldn't be one to be had.

    Intplm.GW
  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 19,621

    My uncle bought a house that had a fire and was abandoned. Him and his brothers fixed it up. Not sure if this was just before or just after WWII but I know they couldn't get stuff. He had scavenged a boiler and oil burner from the Gilbarco Plant in West Springfield where he and his father (and maybe some of the brothers) worked. Gilbarco used to make oil burners, and they had some boilers they renamed probably made by others. Steel boilers. That ran until the late 70s.

    Late 70s he bought a new Utica (which unfortunately had a Wayne burner) but it was ok and I installed it for him.

    The fitting they had used back in the 40s were all cobbled up, cast brass sweat 90s, wrought copper fittings, some kind of strange Monoflow fitting I have never seen before or since. Recessed convectors in the walls. Soft copper tubing run up through the walls to the 2d floor.

    The system still works as it did in the 40s I saw it again a couple of years ago.

    mattmia2Intplm.GW

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