Christian Garibaldi lives in a firehouse, but the only fire he’s ever encountered was during a test drive in a Ferrari F430. He’d spent over a decade as an automotive tec...
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Archive for 2016
A question asked on The Wall: What WiFi Thermostats work best for steam? Hi, guys. Im getting lots of requests for wifi thermostats.
So the washing machine, which had sat like a sorry old man and served our family for at least 25 years, decided to spring more leaks that a litter of puppies last Christm...
A Wallie, Bio, posted this video as a part of a great thread that Delta T, another Wallie, started. He posted: Thought I would share this trick for getting an old threade...
Ross Moore, an engineer friend who works for Indiana Public Works, passed along a page from an old newspaper that had an ad for the Kewanee Boiler Company. An architect f...
Bob "Hot Rod" Rohr of Caleffi shows how to remove an old pipe nipple to make way for new fittings when restoring a radiator.
A discussion on The Wall: Paul S. asked, "Has ever heard of screwed copper pipe? I have it on a job and sizes are way off.
Dry steam is steam with very little liquid water in it. For heating systems, the goal has always been to have 98%-quality steam leaving the boiler. This means that there'...
I asked this question on The Wall: When do you think you need to protect against electrolysis corrosion from stray electrical current, and corrosion caused by dissimilar ...
The question came up on The Wall at HeatingHelp.com about why some contractors buy some or most of their stuff from online suppliers these days. This led to a conversatio...