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Hi sounds like someone used an underground soft copper fitting they were flared at the end and had the loose ollives i would have thought they would have used kingley compression fittings in those days you might still be able to get the ollives and fittings if you do a bit of...

dont do it you cannot pump a primatic cyld flow and return, they were only made for small systems and are designed to self vent on gravity only, you will have to fit a new indrect with a small header tank

just heat them up with a small blowlamp that will make the cover expand then the will undo , use a small piece of cloth under the grips so you do not damage the smoothe surface. mick

yes its definately the giananni diverter valve, you can get a repair kit but the valve will need to be removed, then you will need a new washer set, and then all the screws can be removed to be able to fit the new diaphram kit, i never bother i just fit a new complete valve its...

Hi it sounds like the plate heat exchanger has a pinhole in it, allowing the cold mains to pass into the other side making the pressure rise, i had the same prob on a worcester boiler could mean a new plate heat exchanger

what you have is a warm air heater and a water circuling that heats the water in a DIRECT copper cyd you cannot fit steel rads to a copper hotwater heater at all its only classed as a sink heater but most warm air instalations were fitted with these type of heaters so the answer is NO...

hi the rubber on the end of that bent pan connector is not fixed and will slide along, then you can cut off the bit not wanted, make sure you allow enough to go inside the pipe about 4 inch, it also looks like you might have to use another st connector to reach the pan unles you get...

Hi i have just completed a bio diesel processor it will be up and running next week i have just sourced a supply of used cooking oil and will be processing that into bio fuel i should be able to make it for around 40p per litre the processor is my own design based on what is...

Hi i am looking at buying a talbot express rambler motorhome the problem is there is no power steering fitted its a K reg 1992 i believe i wonder if anyone knows is it possible to retro fit any to the vehicle and were any fitted to this model and year its a 2.0 ltr petrol model...

hi, I did the same thing a few years ago on my wooden post tops, I used 4lb lead and dressed them over about 1/2 inch down all round then cut up the corners to the dressed part then i the cut around about 1.1/2 all round and scolloped them using the corners as the edge of the...

Hi i had a nasty shock a few years back after fitting a large warm air heater in a mate of mines factory, it had its own controler so all it needed was a feed to it , below was a basement room where all the wiring to the plugs ran perfect i thought, in the room was a compessor...

I know it sounds a strange topic but i wonder how many of us buy liquid soap for use in the toilets and bathrooms Well i have just refurbished my bathroom and decided to fit a soap dispenser instead of using a bar of soap we bought the same make in liquid as in the bars i used it for 3 days...

when you say "plug" do you mean a bosspipe thats for a wastepipe??? that goes into the cast pipe??? If so i would use a strap on type that way it fits all around the pipe, and can be bolted on and sealed with silicon that will never come off,

The coil has got a pinhole in it !!! turn off the gate valve to the cold feed for a while, the see if it comes out of the expansion back into the tank ?? the water in the main header tank is trying to reach the same level, backing up into the lower tank , as it would in a plastic pipe...

Hi all i decided to refurbish my bathroom fitting a new bath basin and a corner shower cubicle i used a white stone resin tray, I went to use it the other day and , it was just like a death trap so slippy its untrue, i was using shower gel, and had a job...

As you say the cyld is 1" bsp so the best thing to do is heat it up then with a pair of grips hold onto the 1" bush sides that you can see in the picture, and then use another pair to pull against that should remove the 3/4 m/i fitting, the to save ruining the cyld if the bush...

Hi i think by sidewinder he means its the hot water cyld it has at some time had an I M I sidewinder coil fitted to a direct cyld so as to make it into an indirect. The washers are fibre and there are two to each connection i fitted dozens in the 80s to save altering all...

Hi i still do not think its the A P S because that will not pull in until the fan comes on, if i was faced with the problem the first thing i would do is to go back to basics and replace the link for the stat and clock, then i would trace where the 240v is up to first port of call is...

Hi Tangerine i have misread your post and thought the boiler was a csi combi thats why i said it has a low water pressure switch as all ravenheat later combis do so it looks like its an electrical fault have you tried turning the mains off to the boiler for about 5 mins this...

hi i just looked at my manuals for the csi range it does have a low water pressure switch its above the diverter valve as the other post says its got a rubber boot over the wires but on looking at the electrics there are 2 types depending on what model it is some have 2...