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Heat-timer vents

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Long Beach Ed
Long Beach Ed Member Posts: 1,806
in THE MAIN WALL
They work fairly well on a very good, dry operating system. But they do not last very long.

We liked them for awhile and installed about four hundred of them over the course of a year. Within two years, perhaps sixty failed due to a design defect which permitted the syphon bellows to detatch internally.

We wrote to the manufacturer and called several times, but they never responded.

The Gortons will last almost forever.

LOng Beach Ed

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  • Peter_16
    Peter_16 Member Posts: 8


    I was looking for vents to install on my 1 pipe steam system. I just bought the house, since several of the vents are bad, I am going to replace them all.

    What do you guys thing of the Heat-timer varivalves? (http://www.heat-timer.com/?page=varivalve)They sound good in their literature.

    Do these work well?
    Do they vent the radiators too fast or are hard to adjust?
    The manufacture compares them to the Gorton #2 main vent (for max flow rate), can these be used for main vents as well as radiator vents?

    Thanks for your opinions.
    Peter
  • Peter_16
    Peter_16 Member Posts: 8


    I was looking for vents to install on my 1 pipe steam system. I just bought the house, and since several of the vents are bad, I am going to replace them all.

    What do you guys thing of the Heat-timer varivalves? (http://www.heat-timer.com/?page=varivalve)They sound good in their literature.

    Do these work well?

    Do they vent the radiators too fast or are hard to adjust?

    The manufacture compares them to the Gorton #2 main vent (for max flow rate), can these be used for main vents as well as radiator vents?

    Thanks for your opinions.
    Peter
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