Magnaclean Twintech

[bengasman]

Has anyone have experience with the twintech?
Am considering installing a filter on a particularly bad system, and it seems a good idea to filter non-metallic bits as well.
20 quid difference between the 2 so that seems to make it worth it, but are there any known downsides to the twintech?

 

[htgeng]

Has anyone have experience with the twintech?
Am considering installing a filter on a particularly bad system, and it seems a good idea to filter non-metallic bits as well.
20 quid difference between the 2 so that seems to make it worth it, but are there any known downsides to the twintech?

I thought there was a manufacturing fault (leak) with the unit and they had stopped selling them?

 

[simond]

We've had a flood with a new one week before last.

Asked for a warranty call (still waiting) and instead they've offered me a free unit for my trouble in returning to fit another. That is not good enough, they must make these things for £30 each.

I would avoid this stuff and fit a Spirovent. Much better made, and around for donkeys years.

 

[Deleted member 105431]

spirovent magnabooster is far superior


http://www.spirotech.co.uk/pages/Home/Downloads/Brochures___Leaflets/

 

[roguetrader]

had 2 leaky twintechs now, all they do is send an uprated bowl and new seal out, overpriced tat that has made me look silly more than once, (ok, its not hard) when you encourage your customer to spend extra you expect something that has been well tested, not drawn on a fag packet, sent to china for production, then put together and packaged by chavs in the midlands. spiravent magnabooster is far superior.

 

[bengasman]

Guess it is not going to be a twintech then.
Thanks for the input guys

 

[Kev F]

fitted 2 twintechs now and they have been good as gold, fitted about 50 magnacleans before christmas, not fitted the spirovent yet, anyone got a cost? paying £72 and £92 for the magnacleans, spirovent does look better made, bit dubious as to how it catches it when the pipe is in line whereas on the magnaclean it actually hits the magnet then goes down to the outlet

 

[bengasman]

I had the same thought. Spirovent does look like a better quality, but putting the magnet in the middle of the flow seems a better idea.

 

[Kev F]

could do with banging our heads together and designing one that incoperates the 2

 

[bengasman]

Designing is easy enough, manufacturing at low enough price and marketing at large enough scale to enable bringing more profit than headache is the challenge.
Total of design and manufacture costs as a rule of thumb should be below 15% of realistically marketable value to achieve this in today's market.

 

[n2o]

Isn’t the spirovent magnabooster designed for use on the boiler flow? If this is the case then it won’t stop system dirt from entering the boiler and pump or is this not a problem?

 

[JohnD]

IMO the magnet in the newer Spirovent is just a gimmick. Its separation method catches sediment and particles without a magnet, and the magnet can only hold black sludge that has already fallen into the collection bowl. I'm sure they only added it to attract people who have heard of the magnetic method but don't understand how the vortex works.

The Spirovent is a very solid brass device. I have the old type on my boiler return and it has caught lime fragments and brown rust that a magnet would not.

That said, I have also used a Magnaclean and it is very rewarding to see how much black it catches.

I am a householder not a pro.