HERE,S ONE FOR THE BOFFINS ON HERE

[B.O.B DOLE]

I decided to independently check the MI for the Worcester 35cdi.

This clearly shows details of a condendate soakaway and shows the contents annoted "K". The key for "K" is shown as "Linestone Chippings" !!!

Dont assume that Bob Dole is always telling you the correct facts !!!

Tony

Agile been on the worcester training 12 month ago and the boffin there told us to ignore the publication in the manu,s instructions and use peet gravel ring them up tomorror and then see who as egg on there face.

 

[croydoncorgi]

Sorry to (acid) rain on your parade!
In between 'linestone' and 'peat gravel' there's some risk of total confusion here.

For a start, I'm sure what was meant was PEA gravel - in other words, fine gravel with pea-sized stones.

And has anyone actually done the numbers to work out how long it would take condensate at (say) 3 litres per day max to react with (say) 10 kilos of limestone (calcium carbonate). I think the answer will turn out to be 'a long time'.

And anyway - why not add some more limestone when the first lot gets dissolved away after several years. Since most of the reaction products will be soluble, the soakaway will be half-empty. (Unless, of course, we start getting high-sulphur gas from wherever we will get it from when North Sea runs out - in which case the state of the soakaway will be the least of our worries!)

 

[oilman]

If it's looked after like most things, it wont matter whats it's filled with, nobody will ever bother to look once it's installed. Even assuming it's accessible.

 

[ChrisR]

fitz wrote:
let it drain into a bucket and so evaporate

But won't just the water evaporate leaving an ever more concentrated acid solution in the bucket?

iirc nitric acid boils at 80 odd so would be gone before the water.

I think I'll market kettles with level switches, for evaporating off condensate. Now how big would one have to be to store enough to use economy 7 at night?

 

[chrishutt]

I think I'll market kettles with level switches, for evaporating off condensate. Now how big would one have to be to store enough to use economy 7 at night?

I think I've got an even better idea. How about a boiler that doesn't take quite so much heat out of the flue gases and so avoids condensate being produced in the first place. It would be marginally less efficient than a condensing boiler, but if it was marketed as say standard efficiency it might just catch on.

 

[ChrisR]

Maybe if you call it "Class A Standard Efficiency"?

 

[Slugbabydotcom]

I decided to independently check the MI for the Worcester 35cdi.

This clearly shows details of a condendate soakaway and shows the contents annoted "K". The key for "K" is shown as "Linestone Chippings" !!!

Dont assume that Bob Dole is always telling you the correct facts !!!

Tony

Agile been on the worcester training 12 month ago and the boffin there told us to ignore the publication in the manu,s instructions and use peet gravel ring them up tomorror and then see who as egg on there face.

Googled on peet gravel and pete gravel. There was one hit on peet gravel by an illiterate on ebay. So basically if BOB can't even spell what he is talking about how can anyone expect to believe what he is saying.

To take up agile's point I was once shown a book that said that hot taps should be fitted on the right. My response was that I could show them 20 where it was the other way round.

Howcome this topic has stretched to four pages? Perhaps we are all missing traineegasman

 

[Agile]

Oh no we are not !!!

I do have to say that I will continue to follow the printed MI for boilers and will not heed some unidentified person who B.O.B. Dole ( not his real name ) met on a course.

Also remember the soak away should be more than 500 mm from the outside wall. CORGI once told someone to move it because it was too close, extended gas safety ???

Tony

 

[B.O.B DOLE]

Oh no we are not !!!

I do have to say that I will continue to follow the printed MI for boilers and will not heed some unidentified person who B.O.B. Dole ( not his real name ) met on a course.

Also remember the soak away should be more than 500 mm from the outside wall. CORGI once told someone to move it because it was too close, extended gas safety ???

Tony

HO yes you are
you can say what you like till the cows come home but i am wright

 

[Nige F]

Oh no we are not !!!

I do have to say that I will continue to follow the printed MI for boilers and will not heed some unidentified person who B.O.B. Dole ( not his real name ) met on a course.

Also remember the soak away should be more than 500 mm from the outside wall. CORGI once told someone to move it because it was too close, extended gas safety ???

Tony

HO yes you are
you can say what you like till the cows come home but i am wright

Wilbur or Orville and I am Buzzzzzzzzz Aldrin

 

[Agile]

Is B.O.B. Dole really "Trainee gas man" ?

Surely not, his spelling and grammar is a degree better and he is not as abusive as TGM. Although he said "He is wright" ( Presumably he means "right" ).

If I got a written letter from Worcester, do you think that B.O.B. would admit he is wrong ( or "rong" as he would probably spell it ).

Perhaps I should send an email to Worcester as it hardly does their Company a service to suggest their MI are incorrect and allegedly one of their trainers is spreading incorrect rumours?

Tony

 

[chrishutt]

do you think that B.O.B. would admit he is wrong

No, it's a waste of time arguing with him. Boring Old Bloke's problem is not so much getting the thing muddled up in the first place - we've all been there - but his refusal to acknowledge his mistake when in became obvious. Sadly for him he will never learn with that attitude. Let's put this thread to bed.

 

[B.O.B DOLE]

If I got a written letter from Worcester, do you think that B.O.B. would admit he is wrong ( or "rong" as he would probably spell it ).


NO i think that you would be wong

 

[skybluescooby]

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time for bed said zebedee

 

[silverback]

I contacted Worcester today regarding this matter of what do they recommend using in the soakaway from a condensing boiler and their answer
















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