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Slowing a one pipe steam rad

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Jeff_4 Member Posts: 15

October 2002 in THE MAIN WALL

Is it true that as you slow one steam radiator through its venting, you speed up the others....?

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  Steamhead Member Posts: 18,562

  October 2002

  If you have good main-line vents
  
  it shouldn't. But if the main vents are missing or undersized, it probably will.
  
  Main vents are crucial to one-pipe steam system operation.
  
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