Recent content by elrodalonzo

Paul, Sounds great. Thank you for your help it is greatly appreciated. Happy Thankgiving to you and your family. Lonnie.

Correct. Each radiator has only one feed in. On my old boiler there is a large riser pipe coming out of the top and goes left that tees off to each radiator. Also a tee off this pipe that goes down and back to the bottom of the boiler. There is also a second large riser pipe that comes out...

Paul, I took a couple of pics, let me know if you get them. The new boiler I have says SGO Series 3 Oil-fired natural draft steam boiler. My radiators have pipes only going in none going out with a vent on the other side.

Well I would appreciate that. I haven't contacted the manufacturer yet they usually won't help the homeowner with such matters they'd say contact a professional. I purchased the boiler on ebay in a flood sale, had to replace the liner. Boiler is fine the box was ruined so they couldn't sell...

My intent was not to insult Joe, I hope that's not what happened. I do appreciate the input but since I already have the new boiler it seemed like a mute point. Contacting the manufacturer is a good idea I will do that, I just thought somebody might be watching that could offer a simple...

Many reasons. Cost for one, convenience is also a big factor. My steam boiler is down in the cellar and I would have to go down there everytime I wanted to put wood on it. Now I have a nice glass doored Lopi wood stove (looks good too) that is in my livingroom and the wood is handy just...

I am currently in the process of replacing my 30 year old Oneida 110K BTU boiler with a new Weil-McLain SGO-3 114K. The only snag I see is the old boiler has two riser pipes and the new one only has a place for one. Everything else looks pretty straight forward. Any comments or suggestions...

Thanks Blue Jay, I think I'll draw down some water in the tank and pump some air in there. My pump is quite old so when that dies someday I think I'll put on a new pump and get a tank with a bladder in it. As far as running the draw line back down the casing I'm a little afraid to undo it...

It's a hand driven well and I had trouble years ago with the copper pipe that went inside the 1 1/2 inch well casing. It developed a small hole and we lost prime. We just hooked the suction line to the top of the well casing and it's worked fine since then. Is the mistake I made buying a...

I have a shallow well (12 ft) with a GE 1/3 hp shallow well pump hooked to a 42 gallon epoxy lined (bladderless I think) water tank. It gets full of water and I have to almost completely drain it and then refill it frequently or else the pump comes on with any demand for water. What kind on AVC...