slim_boy_fat
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Who's been a BUSY boy, then.
Onoff
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BiL lost his index finger on something very similar!
Onoff
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Yeah it was a fiver in the boot fair
Where will you go on a Sunday when they build houses on it?
Very quick and clean though, if you're going to cut off a finger it's probably the best thing to use.
Onoff
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Yep, his mate came round the corner and distracted him. Next thing the BIL is like "What?" with his mate pointing, ashen faced, at what's now on the ground.
Seadog
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Hopefully I've now got a working boiler.
I'd already cleaned the upper filter before I started flushing. The boiler now fires and runs without lockingvout. Still a tiny bit of kettling, but nothing like the explosions that were happening. A good soak overnight, with Scalebreaker FX in the system should get most of it broken down.
I'd already cleaned the upper filter before I started flushing. The boiler now fires and runs without lockingvout. Still a tiny bit of kettling, but nothing like the explosions that were happening. A good soak overnight, with Scalebreaker FX in the system should get most of it broken down.
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Is your boiler used for domestic hot water, heating your home, or both? I suspect that it's rather different from what we're using in our house. I'm planning some upgrades to our boiler to make it more efficient, so that I can procrastinate for a few more years about installing a new system. Our boiler is oil fired and used for heating the house (hot-water baseboard heaters) as well as for domestic/potable hot water. It's 31 years old, but still in reasonably good condition. We just had it inspected and serviced, but I think that if we replace the heat exchanger coil that's used for heating domestic hot water with a more efficient one, we should save a few bucks on our oil bill, and the hot-water recovery time should be shorter...maybe even unlimited shower time.
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I spec'd the coil in our hot water cylinder for a gravity fed system on a 40 year old boiler originally (ie bigger than normal) but we now have a pumped system on a new condensing boiler and it does heat up fast now. I was originally going to fit a much bigger heatstore but I probably won't bother now as it just works well.
Seadog
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It's a domestic combi, a Ravenheat. 19 years old, it's not done bad service. I had to replace the diverter diaphragm last year, at which point I soaked the plate heat exchanger in cleaner for a couple of days. That gassed quite a lot. The only other real problem that I've had was intermittent ignition. It turned out to be the ignition module (surprise, surprise). Every pin on both connectors had fractures in the solder. However they seemed perfect to the naked eye. Resoldering with proper lead/tin solder fixed that.
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When we get to the point of replacing our old-technology oil-fired boiler, we'll be looking at things like condensing combi units. A neighbour has a Bosch Greenstar boiler that he's happy with, although I plan to do a bit of research before going ahead with a new heating system. We're far enough from the center of town that we don't have natural gas service here, and we're thinking about switching from oil to propane, which would save space in our 'basement' (glorified crawl space) by getting rid of the big oil storage tank, and I think it would reduce maintenance as well. Of course, I'm open to suggestions.
If we had deeper soil in our yard, we might consider a ground-source heat pump system with a long ground loop, but we're essentially sitting right on bedrock, so a ground loop is economically impractical. An open-loop drilled well source would probably work fine instead of a ground loop, but it can get expensive, the flow rate would be unknown until after spending money on drilling, and I'm a bit leery about the chance of any disturbance to our existing drilled well (or the neighbours' wells).
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Just glanced at some of the Intergas literature. Sounds like it might be easy to maintain, with fewer parts to deal with. I'll add it to my list of systems to research.
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Don't know how it works in the US but last time I looked at a propane install, most suppliers here won't fill a tank that wan't supplied by them. So a big barrier to changing suppliers if they hike their prices, start giving poor service or even go bust. We went with oil (kerosene) in the end, choice of half a dozen suppliers in the local area and all pay-as-you-go. This was 15 years ago, don't know if anything has changed?
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As far as using their own tanks, it's probably the same here for liability and/or advertising reasons. Because much of Maine is very rural and without municipal natural gas service, we seem to have have a lot of fuel suppliers to choose from, both for oil and propane, and they're pretty competitive. My neighbor two houses down switched propane suppliers last year with no problems at all. If I recall, he pays separately for each delivery, so he isn't locked into any time-based payment plan, and if he doesn't like the supplier he can change. His old supplier picked up their propane tanks, and the new supplier dropped off new ones. I think a lot of the propane suppliers have moved away from single huge tanks to multiple tanks that are smaller and easier to transport/set up.
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Mostly fixed a Startrite 14.S.5 bandsaw with a mate, for another old mate.
It was a simple enough problem, in that the supply leads had been torn from their connections during transport.
Mind you, the blue flash was epic when it first got switched on, and everything trippable most certainly tripped....
Anyway, the thing is up and running, and it produced a lot of smiles.
Which is always good...
It was a simple enough problem, in that the supply leads had been torn from their connections during transport.
Mind you, the blue flash was epic when it first got switched on, and everything trippable most certainly tripped....
Anyway, the thing is up and running, and it produced a lot of smiles.
Which is always good...
Finally got the H2 750 fired up today, sounds sweet as a nut!.
Quite satisfying building it up from bare crank cases into a running bike again.
Customer brought the rolling chassis back in after powdercoating and treated it to some reproduction exhausts (expensive but they look really well made).
Shame it's so crap outside or I'd have gone out for a ride..
Quite satisfying building it up from bare crank cases into a running bike again.
Customer brought the rolling chassis back in after powdercoating and treated it to some reproduction exhausts (expensive but they look really well made).
Shame it's so crap outside or I'd have gone out for a ride..
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Thatll be a 75 H2C if my memory is correct. There not a bike to be tootling about on, but I assume you know that. That feeling of frame twist as you wind the throttle open coming out of a corner or round about is quite interesting!
Its a thing of beauty to those of us of a certain vintage.
Yes it is a H2C, been a bit of a job working on it, sourcing parts but nice to see it back on the road again.
