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volmaakt

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    Nooit Volmaakt
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    Auchinstarry Basin, Scotland

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  1. It was more the threaded bit going directly into the stove I was wondering about.
  2. Ta. Is that a fancy (better?) version of Boss White?
  3. Hello. Any recommendations for what to use for sealing the fittings (compression) going into the back of my boiler stove? PTFE? Stove silicone? Thanks
  4. Thanks. I have a lid for the tank. Would the point on the right of the picture serve for this even if it is a couple of inches off the bottom of the tank assuming the water level would be kept above this? Should I just leave the other pipe in the tank be?
  5. Yes, hadn’t quite thought that one though properly, thank you. So if I used the two existing points would I run the right hand side of the picture point down into the return to the stove and have the other pipe as a vent from the highest point of the feed? A concern is that this pipe is only 10mm, is this enough to vent if I ran 15 or 22 up to it This is a gravity system and just radiators.
  6. I was planning on one circuit to go fore, top tapping for feed and bottom tapping for return and the same to go aft. There are four tappings at the back of the stove. The fore run is to have the header tank and the aft run to have a pipe venting outside, this will be off the feed and will vent higher than the header tank. I have tried to add a picture of the inside of my proposed header tank. If I have then the rest of my message may make sense if not then never mind. At the top left of the picture is an overflow pipe which I was planning on running into the return run back to the stove, bottom right of the picture is where I am planning to feed into the tank from the highest point of my feed from the stove, this is two inches from the bottom of the tank. I wanted to use these points because they are existing, welded fittings from my tanks previous life as a urn. I figured this was preferable to blanking them off and then having to cut new holes into the tank. Does this look feasible?
  7. As soon as it is built I will post a picture. Looks great in my head though...
  8. I am going to be having a split system. Planning on 28mm copper feed in both directions with 22mm returns in hep. 15mm up to header tank? I “found” a ”discarded” rectangular stainless steel urn at work which I have cut to size around which I am going to build a u shaped towel storage unit and it will have a nice heated stainless steel mirror in the middle. TD, you did suggest to get inventive.
  9. Thanks. That is why I liked the look of them
  10. It is for an open vented solid fuel system on my boat. I think most of my system will be in copper but some may be hep, are they compatible?
  11. Hello. Has anyone used or heard of tectite push fit copper fittings being used for a central heating system? They have an upper limit of 114 degrees and the man on the phone said they were suitable for solid fuel systems. Thanks.
  12. It is built into the stove. I suppose I had better get a move on with the radiators etc. then, starting to get a tad chilly up here in Scotland
  13. I’ve got an old Demi-john, could add coloured water and watch it swirl while on the loo... Thanks for your help, I’m sure I will have more questions when I start. Oh, one more, might be stupid. Can you use a back boiler stove as just a stove before connecting all the pipe work etc.?
  14. Just running radiators off the stove. Have an instant gas heater for water. My plan is for the expansion tank to be at the front end of the boat (bathroom). I had planned it to be after the two radiators on the fore run and fed into the return. This is the highest point on both the fore and aft run. Can the tank be in a room or should it be behind/under something? Was planning on using 28mm copper for the first 150 cm and then dropping down to 22mm hep.
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