Help with Van Wert

 
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windyhill4.2
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Post by windyhill4.2 » Fri. Jan. 05, 2018 10:14 am

I am still struggling to figure how this hot water heating system with a jammed gear box issue turned into a recommendation to get a steam plumber to fix what the painters may have messed up. :roll:

Thinking further into this.... I have concluded that the painters of bygone yrs. left there paint brushes inside the gear box (because they were using oil based paint) & after getting all the radiators reset & reconnected, they forgot their paint brushes.... which in time, overheated the gears & jammed them..... thus the need for a steam plumber when the jammed gear box caused a heat needed with none available,emergency. :lol:

 
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Coal Size/Type: PEA,NUT,STOVE /ANTHRACITE
Other Heating: Ground Source Heat Pump and some Solar

Post by McGiever » Sat. Jan. 06, 2018 8:14 pm

Paint Cans will need another warning listed on labels so painters do not continue to have this disregard for restrictor plates when yanking out radiators to paint wall behind them. ;) And while they're at it to stop painting over the screw heads on receptacles and switches cause it makes it hard to get out the screws sometime later. ;)
Last edited by McGiever on Sat. Jan. 06, 2018 8:19 pm, edited 1 time in total.


 
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Rob R.
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Post by Rob R. » Sat. Jan. 06, 2018 8:19 pm

Let's try to fix one thing at a time. Without a functional stoker the radiators don't make much difference.

 
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McGiever
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Location: Junction of PA-OH-WV
Stoker Coal Boiler: AXEMAN-ANDERSON 130 "1959"
Hand Fed Coal Boiler: BUCKET A DAY water heater
Hand Fed Coal Stove: Warm Morning 414A
Coal Size/Type: PEA,NUT,STOVE /ANTHRACITE
Other Heating: Ground Source Heat Pump and some Solar

Post by McGiever » Sat. Jan. 06, 2018 8:21 pm

Rob R. wrote:
Sat. Jan. 06, 2018 8:19 pm
Let's try to fix one thing at a time. Without a functional stoker the radiators don't make much difference.
Yeah, Where does the stoker fix stand at right now?

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