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[Dan Robinson]

Come on.... Tell us your actual qualifications and experience.

 

[Steelmasons]

Soft copper tube about 6mm. They were called `weep pipes` by some, I kid you not. Two copper pipes would be in the wall to the wall thermostat. You obviously think it is funny as it is all before your time.

'weep tubes' being the correct terminology.
Are you saying the ROOM/WALL thermostat was switched via gas weep tubes???..

 

[Dan Robinson]

'weep tubes' being the correct terminology.
Are you saying the ROOM/WALL thermostat was switched via gas weep tubes???..

Steel you young whipper snapper.... Can't you hear the Internet creaking under the strain of these two's googling efforts?

 

[Steelmasons]

Can always spot a googler Dan as they take a while to respond to a question put to them..

 

[Dan Robinson]

If at all. Apparently I don't know what a Vaillant, Potterton, Ideal, Wooshitter, Viessmann etc look like inside. Feck me......

Bernie seems to think I work on my own too.

Wouldn't have got those 3" valves and tube up to those ceilings on my tod Thursday if I did. Hey ho. I certainly wish they all did have their boilers serviced every year. Landlord's inspections notwithstanding standing that would make for a very easy and profitable year .


Clueless is the word

 

[Steelmasons]

I had interests in electronics and that was the career I followed and it covers a wide reange of applications including controls for large gas powered heating equipment.

What type of controls were you involved in with regards to gas powered equipment?

 

[hard-work]

'weep tubes' being the correct terminology.
Are you saying the ROOM/WALL thermostat was switched via gas weep tubes???..

YES. You ignorant person.
Weep tube from the relay valve in the boiler's gas line inside the boiler to the mechanical wind up clock which could be in the boiler or mounted separately.
Then from the clock to boiler thermostat, which was variable action not snap action.
Then a copper weep tube from the boiler thermostat to the wall thermostat which was variable action.
Then a weep tube from the wall thermostat back to the boiler and into the burner box where the tube terminated at the pilot light. It looked like there was two pilot lights inside.
Gas went through it all, right to the living room. The bigger the small flame at the burner the more the two stats were open. If both were off (satisfied), or the clock switched, it out there would be no flame. There was also in the gas line a thermocouple valve with a big red button with a thermocouple into the burner box. There was also a governor in the gas line. This was before multi-function gas valves.

To turn the boiler off manually a small thumb valve was in the weep line. If no flow of gas through the weep lines, the lead weight operated relay valve dropped onto its seating cutting off the gas supply to the boiler.

It was all variable. The flame could be a bead at the burner or full on, depending on the two stats. When the weep pipe was not passing gas the valve dropped as the pressure was equal either side of the diaphragm. When the stats and clock allowed gas through the weep pipes, pressure on the upper side was less the lower side and the main gas lifted the weight allowing gas to the burner. A Gas relay valve.

Now you know Mr smarty know-it-all with an attitude. The burner modulated to a far greater range than today and not an electrical component in sight. You have never even heard of it, never mind touch one.

Later versions had an electric solenoid in the gas line and an electric time clock. The electric clock also switched in a pump.

 

[Steelmasons]

The blending valve was set to 55C.

Any particular reason for setting "blending valve" to 55c?..

 

[Steelmasons]

YES. You ignorant person.

Then a copper weep tube from the boiler thermostat to the wall thermostat which was variable action.
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...ahh right , so the boiler stat controlled the room stat???....never stop learning in this game , every day's a school day....
Thank you for schooling me on this total load of absolute bo!!ocks...

 

[Corgigrouch GTi]

I had interests in electronics and that was the career I followed and it covers a wide reange of applications including controls for large gas powered heating equipment.

I sincerely hope that your knowledge of electronics is better than your knowledge of how flues work... Is it true that you suggested that a DIYer build a flue that came from the top of his stove and then run down under the floor?

 

[hard-work]

...ahh right , so the boiler stat controlled the room stat???....never stop learning in this game , every day's a school day....
Thank you for schooling me on this total load of absolute bo!!ocks...

You have not a clue. Limited education and comprehension backed up by total ignorance.

 

[picasso]

And yet he still knows more than you.

 

[hard-work]

He clearly does not know more than me. He hasn't clue what I am on about, displaying total ignorance. My comments apply equally to you.

 

[picasso]

Thread will disappear soon so no need to worry that most reading this must realise your a moron.

 

[hard-work]

You are a troll and that is your aim. Anyone who shows these know-it-all on-the-tools men up for what they are, a concerted effort is made to close a thread or get rid of them. The thread is full of backbites from people like you who ruin the thread. Grow up!