the funny thing about asbestos and mesothelioma claims. it seems to not effect everyone the same, if at all, many people worked in factories where it rained down like snow flakes and hung like fog and yet they never had a breathing issue one, many still alive or lived to ripe old ages. I think there's far more to it and other compounds/contaminated air being breathed involved in the mix.
White Ash deposits around a Pilot and /or Burners, Heat Exchangers which the gas burners are impinging upon, is from the use of aerosol sprays in the home or business which flows into the primary and secondary air mixing in and around the pilot and burners.🤔
that can also be from minerals in the air(humidifiers, as well as other steam sources like cooking can cause that), other gasses infiltrating into the home via the basement/crawlspace floor/walls can also cause that. many other household cleaning products. sometimes the supplied gas itself(propane or natural gas) cans do that from the odorant added(it builds up t higher levels at times). also candles, endless list :)
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The noisy pilot burner is “Sharp” with too much air to gas ratio. It will burn up the Thermocouple in short order, because it is excessively hot. The pilot orifice should be changed to one size larger which will quiet the pilot making it “Soft” , and cooling the flame, and thereby extending the life of the thermocouple.
too much gas pressure, it's chooching "full steam ahead", it probably blew out before in a down draft or was never set to start with. at least it;s not a big lazy no-air) flame with yellow tip sooting the boiler. although like that it will white ash it....
When you stuck the camera into the bottom of the boiler looking at all the soot you could just see on the bottom of the one heat exchanger a lot more white, almost soot or something like it was dripping. So I suspect the heat exchanger is starting to fail and that's probably where his water's going up his chimney and down onto his burners
Mikey Pipes , great content exceptional knowledge about your trades, I love watching the videos. How come you don’t work on oil fired boilers or furnaces? Is it just something you don’t like or not your forte? I have oil in my house and we don’t have access to natural gas, but I would go natural gas in a heartbeat if I could . So much cleaner in my opinion.
I would guess that boiler is late 50's early 60's area. ** edit: actually, after seeing more of it overall, the paint color, size, plastic rivets on the badges, probably the late 60's to early 70's range.
😂 she be an old steam girl😂 if and I say ( IF ) my memory is correct the series 3 were manufactured between 1986 and I believe 1999 was the last manufactured .. I could be off a year or two either way that was a long time ago for my memory to remember, but regardless, she’s from the 80s “” back in the day when they built boilers to last forever hardly ever had to replace a cast-iron burner 😁” but regardless she be dam close to 40 years old !! A for her age she be looking dam good 👍 an working like a timex watch… Nice tune up on an old girl !!!
I first guessed late 50 to early 60's, but after seeing more overall, I'm going with late 60's to early 70's. overall size, badges held on with plastic push rivets, paint color, standing pilot with thermocouple vs power pile. not many steamers around here and not that many hydronics at all, but I've seen plenty over the years(worked on/replaced them too)
@ throttle bottle 🤷🏻♂️ it is very possible I just know when I was first introduced to them. granted I agree with you the paperwork and some of the parts do look more like the 50s~60s but my first experience was in 88 or 89 after I did a 10 year stent in the Army after I took some classes an worked for a Master an lol now I’m too old an too stupid to retire now 🤷🏻♂️ I go out almost everyday but I leave most to my guys an gals.. 3 of them call me pops an think I am breakable China an are way way over protective of me 🙄 it’s not like I got one foot in the grave .. but I would be curious when that unit was actually manufactured 🤔
The EG series of boilers first came out in 1977 and is obviously still in production. The E series was 60s to 77 I think. This boiler still used push nipples and very heavily casted sections.
Mikey, Question........ You took off the Pigtail and water came out. The water level mark in black marker someone marked is about 2 inches about the float on the Miller No. 67. The fill valve is obviously bad overfilling, but why was the sight glass marked so high as "Normal Water Level" when it was still about 2 inches above the float on the No.67? On my 1962 National Boiler that still works like new since I replaced everything over the last 10 years the water in the sight glass is always perfectly in line with where the Float is on the No.67. I never got water out of my Pigtail opening when I take it off to clean it. Confused as to why water would be 2 inches above the float. Float in the 67 should show the same level of water in the sight glass.
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the funny thing about asbestos and mesothelioma claims. it seems to not effect everyone the same, if at all, many people worked in factories where it rained down like snow flakes and hung like fog and yet they never had a breathing issue one, many still alive or lived to ripe old ages. I think there's far more to it and other compounds/contaminated air being breathed involved in the mix.
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White Ash deposits around a Pilot and /or Burners, Heat Exchangers which the gas burners are impinging upon, is from the use of aerosol sprays in the home or business which flows into the primary and secondary air mixing in and around the pilot and burners.🤔
that can also be from minerals in the air(humidifiers, as well as other steam sources like cooking can cause that), other gasses infiltrating into the home via the basement/crawlspace floor/walls can also cause that. many other household cleaning products. sometimes the supplied gas itself(propane or natural gas) cans do that from the odorant added(it builds up t higher levels at times). also candles, endless list :)
I see you got one of the plasma arc lighters... Those work great, I hope you have had good luck with it. Just don't forget to charge it from time to time. 🤠👍
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The noisy pilot burner is “Sharp” with too much air to gas ratio. It will burn up the Thermocouple in short order, because it is excessively hot. The pilot orifice should be changed to one size larger which will quiet the pilot making it “Soft” , and cooling the flame, and thereby extending the life of the thermocouple.
too much gas pressure, it's chooching "full steam ahead", it probably blew out before in a down draft or was never set to start with. at least it;s not a big lazy no-air) flame with yellow tip sooting the boiler. although like that it will white ash it....
Curious what the verdict was on the water loss. Is steam leaking out of the boiler or is the pressuretrol set too high or not functioning?
When you stuck the camera into the bottom of the boiler looking at all the soot you could just see on the bottom of the one heat exchanger a lot more white, almost soot or something like it was dripping. So I suspect the heat exchanger is starting to fail and that's probably where his water's going up his chimney and down onto his burners
Mikey Pipes , great content exceptional knowledge about your trades, I love watching the videos. How come you don’t work on oil fired boilers or furnaces? Is it just something you don’t like or not your forte? I have oil in my house and we don’t have access to natural gas, but I would go natural gas in a heartbeat if I could . So much cleaner in my opinion.
I’ve never been professionally trained on oil fired equipment
I would guess that boiler is late 50's early 60's area.
** edit: actually, after seeing more of it overall, the paint color, size, plastic rivets on the badges, probably the late 60's to early 70's range.
You're right on the money with that guess!
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😂 she be an old steam girl😂 if and I say ( IF ) my memory is correct the series 3 were manufactured between 1986 and I believe 1999 was the last manufactured .. I could be off a year or two either way that was a long time ago for my memory to remember, but regardless, she’s from the 80s “” back in the day when they built boilers to last forever hardly ever had to replace a cast-iron burner 😁” but regardless she be dam close to 40 years old !! A for her age she be looking dam good 👍 an working like a timex watch… Nice tune up on an old girl !!!
I first guessed late 50 to early 60's, but after seeing more overall, I'm going with late 60's to early 70's. overall size, badges held on with plastic push rivets, paint color, standing pilot with thermocouple vs power pile. not many steamers around here and not that many hydronics at all, but I've seen plenty over the years(worked on/replaced them too)
@ throttle bottle 🤷🏻♂️ it is very possible I just know when I was first introduced to them. granted I agree with you the paperwork and some of the parts do look more like the 50s~60s but my first experience was in 88 or 89 after I did a 10 year stent in the Army after I took some classes an worked for a Master an lol now I’m too old an too stupid to retire now 🤷🏻♂️ I go out almost everyday but I leave most to my guys an gals.. 3 of them call me pops an think I am breakable China an are way way over protective of me 🙄 it’s not like I got one foot in the grave .. but I would be curious when that unit was actually manufactured 🤔
The EG series of boilers first came out in 1977 and is obviously still in production. The E series was 60s to 77 I think. This boiler still used push nipples and very heavily casted sections.
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Mikey, Question........
You took off the Pigtail and water came out. The water level mark in black marker someone marked is about 2 inches about the float on the Miller No. 67.
The fill valve is obviously bad overfilling, but why was the sight glass marked so high as "Normal Water Level" when it was still about 2 inches above the float on the No.67?
On my 1962 National Boiler that still works like new since I replaced everything over the last 10 years the water in the sight glass is always perfectly in line with where the Float is on the No.67.
I never got water out of my Pigtail opening when I take it off to clean it.
Confused as to why water would be 2 inches above the float. Float in the 67 should show the same level of water in the sight glass.
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