Recent content by adamm

On an air compressor, if it is going into use, it will get wet anyway. Water will condense out of the high pressure air, which is why you are supposed to regularly drain air compressor tanks. It shouldn't be a big deal to get the water out. It may take awhile if it only has small ports.

When I bought my boiler it came with a cast iron electric circulating pump. It is something like this TACO circulating pump, but mine is not made by TACO. I plan to use this pump controlled by the thermostat that came with the boiler.

This what I was planning. The hot water comes from the boiler. The plan is to have a fairly conventional residential hydronic heating systems with zone control, thermostat, circulating pumps etc. The difference would be instead of using a purpose built rad that I would need to buy, cheap out...

I am installing an oil boiler to heat my shop. I picked up a used boiler with all the controls, and most of the components to install the system. The main thing missing for a complete system is a radiator. Has anyone used the rad from a car to heat their shop? The operating conditions should...

Which is the advantage of the gasifier style boilers as opposed to the old style smoke dragons. With most of the gasifier boilers used with dry wood, there is only a bit of smoke at start up, and no visible smoke during the burn. Adam

Hello Larry, I don't have an outdoor wood boiler, but I am looking into one and some of my family members have them. I frequent a forum where there are quite a few people who are knowledgeable about wood boilers: http://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/forums/viewforum/21 Their leanings tend...