Amazing to me that Honeywell (and now Resideo) are still making many of these replacement parts for aging boiler tech... AND that they're nearly identical to the originals!
The some of the replacement parts Honeywell offers that use bimetallic switches are not as good as the old mercury switches. We buy up the mercury ones whenever new old stock show up for sale. The mercury ones last decades.
You have never lived until you have to crawl into the combustion chamber of a three story marine type boiler and rebuild the refractory brickwork, then crawl into the steam chamber and rattle the tubes to the mud drum and water drum. Horrible work but oddly satisfying when the inspector gives you the green light to light the burner and start building steam again.
That's why I had BT's in the Navy to do that thing. I just stayed in Main Control nice and cool. F going into the fire room (specially the upper level)!!!
Your videos are outrageously funny hahaha🤣😂 , man what a good way to start my morning😎💯💯, by watching these informative/ funny videos!!! Keep grinding Brother !!
8:57 if you unscrew that little bushing looking fitting all the way at the bottom it will drain. when you get a glass gauge replacement kit that gauge cock should always go on the bottom. the other (top) gauge cock will not have that bushing. the issue with the slow filling after draining is that bottom gauge cock is likely partially clogged which i think you mentioned. likely due to not being drained often enough by the super. you can unscrew the packing nut on the gauge cock and the whole handle comes out and you can use one of the 2 copper rods protecting the glass to snake in and out of the fitting to clear it out. usually isn't a big deal, worst case scenario may need to throw some teflon on it if it leaks after putting back together. no need to drain the boiler completely; if you fully open the blowdown valve below it will create enough vacuum that you won't have any water coming out. 30 seconds and you're done
Nice to see the opposite side of the spectrum from the boilers I've worked on. My own house has a Burnham IN4 that's on it's way out and even that boiler is 2x the size that it needs to be. We have to increase the EDR of the system to match up to the smallest boilers they make. It's a horrible installation, done in copper pipe and all of the solder has left all of the joints. Waiting until the end of heating season to install a Megasteam 288 with a Carlin EZ-Gas (I know it voids the warranty but it's my own house and I really would like a 3 pass with a power gas burner). 3 inch drop header, dual 2 inch risers from the boiler, king valves, return valves, etc. My tiny system has 2 2 inch steam mains. That tiny boiler weighs 605 pounds, wouldn't like to have the job of moving that huge thing. Even the tiny MST288 has to be assembled in place in the basement. Looking forward to having a power burner again, like my old house, and not the dumb inefficient atmospheric. Makes a nice sound, I can tune it with my Testo 310 and not have an insane amount of excess air. Just wish I could have a dual fuel oil/gas burner that small but that's not happening.
Ooh that was a beast. I had an install one time where the furnace was about the size of my car... I had to rip it down to as small as possible. It was all ancient iron and steel. Super heavy compared to a furnace we install now.
My question is what did it take to screw those big ass pipes together I'm installing a new steam boiler with 2 "1/2 pipes and I. Tired with those already I can't think I would be able to handle those giant pipes to top them together it's crazy just looking at them
I have stewardship over a pair of 125HP low pressure steam scotch marine 3 pass boilers similar to that. North American Mfg. And also the system they’re connected to. There’s something primally satisfying standing there when they’re both at high fire
Back in the 80's and early 90's my then boss and i used to remove and install those huge HB.Smith Mills (pork chop section) boilers, the ones with the huge mudd drums. Those were the days! LoL!
That big chungus reminds me of the Kewaunee-Ross Type C I got to work on a couple of months ago. Was originally commissioned in 1956. "Only" 92hp if memory serves. Awesome old beast.
lol had to remove a old kewanee like that, a week with 2 guys and a torch hauled the pieces out, and piled em in the yard . exhaust was 32" had to hand make a cap for the hole
that well mclain reminds me of the boiler in the first appartment, it eventually rusted out to the point the tubes fell and it was just spewing flames and got condemmed, they stopped making that specific model ages ago, lol good times
Boilers on the Titanic were much much larger believe it or not, 24 double ended scotch marine boilers with 3 corrugated furnaces on each end weighing nearly 100 tons each, 15 feet long made of solid riveted steel construction. Mammoth in comparison to this large heating boiler!
Not trying to 1-up you or anything, but it is kind of funny to see how only working in certain classes only shows you a certain level of equipment size. We've got 3x 1000 HP steam boilers for building cars. They're nothing the likes of power gen or marine boilers, but they're some of the largest package unit boilers ever made AFAIK. Not to mention our 180 HVAC units you can walk in 😅.
Kudos for having the cajones to even walk in that room the nuclear reactor thing was in man! Also, I think you left your driver in it's flux capacitor. HA!! I called it! I made the comment before your reveal. Damn I'm good. Too be fair, you're better 😂😉😂
@@oliverbruh9769 Boiler HP or HP? Because 5400 kW is not that big. Biggest I worked on was 13.5 MW (or 1400 Boiler HP). You needed to climb a ladder and get on a platform just to shut the steam off.
I don't know to be fair I just converted it. Yeah we have a whole platform on top of the boiler. There's 4 valves on top for steam and bleeds and stuff. I dunno what the difference Is between boiler hp and hp lol. We're all kw here
No. AL Eastmond can build a boiler in place. Biggest I ever worked on was a 500hp. Most of what I saw was 275 hp or smaller and 100 hp is pretty common
yes, we build most boilers in place like weil & mclain series 88 and 80, h.b smith series 19 and 28, and replace a tone of steel tubes in fire tube boilers
That boiler was very poorly maintained, was a wise choice to do a hard pass on doing anything with it. Sight glass feed and boiler was clogged with sediment and rust as evidenced by how poorly it blew down and extremely rusty water.😢
I’ve watched many of his videos and he is young and might not know everything but he is knowledgeable enough to do the job without a hazardous situation
Amazing to me that Honeywell (and now Resideo) are still making many of these replacement parts for aging boiler tech... AND that they're nearly identical to the originals!
no school like the old school!
The some of the replacement parts Honeywell offers that use bimetallic switches are not as good as the old mercury switches. We buy up the mercury ones whenever new old stock show up for sale. The mercury ones last decades.
You have never lived until you have to crawl into the combustion chamber of a three story marine type boiler and rebuild the refractory brickwork, then crawl into the steam chamber and rattle the tubes to the mud drum and water drum. Horrible work but oddly satisfying when the inspector gives you the green light to light the burner and start building steam again.
That's why I had BT's in the Navy to do that thing. I just stayed in Main Control nice and cool. F going into the fire room (specially the upper level)!!!
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In a highrise in nyc i found a huge boiler, size of a box truck in the basement, was really cool.
Your videos are outrageously funny hahaha🤣😂 , man what a good way to start my morning😎💯💯, by watching these informative/ funny videos!!! Keep grinding Brother !!
Thank you for support brother!
Newly subscribed..... Mikey just wasn't giving me enough commercial heating content.
8:57 if you unscrew that little bushing looking fitting all the way at the bottom it will drain. when you get a glass gauge replacement kit that gauge cock should always go on the bottom. the other (top) gauge cock will not have that bushing. the issue with the slow filling after draining is that bottom gauge cock is likely partially clogged which i think you mentioned. likely due to not being drained often enough by the super. you can unscrew the packing nut on the gauge cock and the whole handle comes out and you can use one of the 2 copper rods protecting the glass to snake in and out of the fitting to clear it out. usually isn't a big deal, worst case scenario may need to throw some teflon on it if it leaks after putting back together. no need to drain the boiler completely; if you fully open the blowdown valve below it will create enough vacuum that you won't have any water coming out. 30 seconds and you're done
I was incharged off steam boiler for 40 years. It is gone now i don't miss it
Nice to see the opposite side of the spectrum from the boilers I've worked on. My own house has a Burnham IN4 that's on it's way out and even that boiler is 2x the size that it needs to be. We have to increase the EDR of the system to match up to the smallest boilers they make. It's a horrible installation, done in copper pipe and all of the solder has left all of the joints. Waiting until the end of heating season to install a Megasteam 288 with a Carlin EZ-Gas (I know it voids the warranty but it's my own house and I really would like a 3 pass with a power gas burner). 3 inch drop header, dual 2 inch risers from the boiler, king valves, return valves, etc. My tiny system has 2 2 inch steam mains. That tiny boiler weighs 605 pounds, wouldn't like to have the job of moving that huge thing. Even the tiny MST288 has to be assembled in place in the basement. Looking forward to having a power burner again, like my old house, and not the dumb inefficient atmospheric. Makes a nice sound, I can tune it with my Testo 310 and not have an insane amount of excess air. Just wish I could have a dual fuel oil/gas burner that small but that's not happening.
cool videos , great to have a skilled trade
Ooh that was a beast. I had an install one time where the furnace was about the size of my car... I had to rip it down to as small as possible. It was all ancient iron and steel. Super heavy compared to a furnace we install now.
Try workingbon 3/ 500hp Cleaver Brookes low pressure steam fire tube boiler. Quite impressive.
My question is what did it take to screw those big ass pipes together I'm installing a new steam boiler with 2 "1/2 pipes and I. Tired with those already I can't think I would be able to handle those giant pipes to top them together it's crazy just looking at them
That's what I worked on, but with Carlin 1150. Hated the 601 burner squirrel cage liked to blow up. Notorious for it.
I have stewardship over a pair of 125HP low pressure steam scotch marine 3 pass boilers similar to that. North American Mfg. And also the system they’re connected to. There’s something primally satisfying standing there when they’re both at high fire
After you left the building where you put your 15 in 1 I was like yep he forgot it🤣🤣🤦♂️
Use heat transfer paste on those wells. They'll come out easier.
Back in the 80's and early 90's my then boss and i used to remove and install those huge HB.Smith Mills (pork chop section) boilers, the ones with the huge mudd drums. Those were the days! LoL!
That big chungus reminds me of the Kewaunee-Ross Type C I got to work on a couple of months ago. Was originally commissioned in 1956. "Only" 92hp if memory serves.
Awesome old beast.
Kewanee* I run two 200hp 1972 vintage Kewanees for a living.
lol had to remove a old kewanee like that, a week with 2 guys and a torch hauled the pieces out, and piled em in the yard . exhaust was 32" had to hand make a cap for the hole
I recently just cut up a 500+ gallon tank (orginal) and installed 5 new tanks to replace it
You come off as a tech that just wings it. Which comes off as funny af and scary. " ehh I don't know what this does but we guna do it anyways" 🤣😅
You got to get thrown into the deep end to learn how to swim in this industry
Nothing wrong with being funny it keeps the videos interesting don’t really want to watch someone who’s boring
1975 york shipley, 2500 gallon 3 pass. 10 years now i have tinnitus
The thing you flushed first it's the water column. back filling slow it's the hand valve on the gauge glass is closed.
that well mclain reminds me of the boiler in the first appartment, it eventually rusted out to the point the tubes fell and it was just spewing flames and got condemmed, they stopped making that specific model ages ago, lol good times
that boiler is what I would call a Wilderbeast, its like something from the titanic.
Boilers on the Titanic were much much larger believe it or not, 24 double ended scotch marine boilers with 3 corrugated furnaces on each end weighing nearly 100 tons each, 15 feet long made of solid riveted steel construction. Mammoth in comparison to this large heating boiler!
that was great volg eddie leak master plumbing
You never saw the 1200lbs, superheated, D-type boiler in my frigate, or the 600lbs M-type boilers on aircraft carriers.
Should have put never seize on that capillary tube
What city is this? Ny? Good job man. 👏👏
Why didn't you clean the gg on last boiler. It was filthy.
Sounds like the lower port to the 67 / sight glass is partially plugged.
You can build that boiler ofter the building is done
I would not be able to deal with the tool bucket 😂
Not trying to 1-up you or anything, but it is kind of funny to see how only working in certain classes only shows you a certain level of equipment size. We've got 3x 1000 HP steam boilers for building cars. They're nothing the likes of power gen or marine boilers, but they're some of the largest package unit boilers ever made AFAIK. Not to mention our 180 HVAC units you can walk in 😅.
Kudos for having the cajones to even walk in that room the nuclear reactor thing was in man! Also, I think you left your driver in it's flux capacitor.
HA!! I called it! I made the comment before your reveal. Damn I'm good.
Too be fair, you're better 😂😉😂
I would have just installed the high limited modifie it to work
That's a baby boiler. You should see my 1700HP water tube boiler, also have a hrsg with 5mw gas turbine at my cogen plant
Nice, I work on 7200 hp/5400KW Steam Boiler for Factory. 3 of them . 1700hp is baby :) lol There's even bigger ones out there.
@@oliverbruh9769 Boiler HP or HP? Because 5400 kW is not that big. Biggest I worked on was 13.5 MW (or 1400 Boiler HP). You needed to climb a ladder and get on a platform just to shut the steam off.
I don't know to be fair I just converted it. Yeah we have a whole platform on top of the boiler. There's 4 valves on top for steam and bleeds and stuff. I dunno what the difference Is between boiler hp and hp lol. We're all kw here
I'll have to have a look again either 5400kw or 54,000kw
the irony of stay off the grass we care about plants ...meanwhile nailing the sign to a tree
You should see the boilers I work with. One is 600 BHP and the other one is 1,200 BHP.
Did you get chat GPT to write your description?
Spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch.. and 15-n-1
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No. AL Eastmond can build a boiler in place. Biggest I ever worked on was a 500hp. Most of what I saw was 275 hp or smaller and 100 hp is pretty common
yes, we build most boilers in place like weil & mclain series 88 and 80, h.b smith series 19 and 28, and replace a tone of steel tubes in fire tube boilers
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Brick city yo.
Sometimes you remind me of a little kid to look on your face I broke it. You do an excellent job though
That’s a Titanic size boiler.
That boiler was very poorly maintained, was a wise choice to do a hard pass on doing anything with it. Sight glass feed and boiler was clogged with sediment and rust as evidenced by how poorly it blew down and extremely rusty water.😢
Lol a boiler running at 270 is not a boiler but a pressure cooker
i saw newark police car in video i went to rutgers eons ago.. peace
Baby boiler
Stick to residential, you are way out of your league on that boiler. It's easy to create a hazardous situation if you don't know what your doing.
I’ve watched many of his videos and he is young and might not know everything but he is knowledgeable enough to do the job without a hazardous situation
The first 4 minutes is a waste of your viewers' time.