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You may be asking for too much. Since a steam system is open to the atmosphere and constantly rusting and corroding, it's very difficult to keep the water pure. You shoul...
The boiler's water line is surging. Dirty water, a too-high pH, overfiring and improper near-boiler piping can all cause the boiler's water line to surge up and down. If ...
I learned these things the hard way. It took me a while. 1) The Only Time You Need F&T Traps Is When You Have A Condensate Pump Or Dry Return Lines.
One of the things I loved about this business when I was first coming up was that the name of a component nearly always defined its function. All I had to do was reverse ...
I was in the basement of this six-story apartment building in a suburb just north of New York City. This goes back some years when I was working for a manufacturers' repr...
1. Long ago, a Dead Man decided to heat a big building with a steam system. Since it was such a big building, and since pipe, valves and fittings have never been cheap, t...
Steam systems that make vacuum with pumps have been around for more than 100 years. In 1899, D.F. Morgan wrote an article in The Metal Worker magazine, suggesting that de...
I feel sorry for this guy because he gives the time (12:30 A.M.). Most likely, failed steam traps are causing the water hammer that you hear. This is not normal, although...
Ever wonder who first proposed heating buildings with steam? So did I, so I went and found out. Enjoy!
What’s the cheapest tool you can carry if your business includes taming old steam-heating systems and making them purr with greater efficiency? Litmus paper! You probably...
