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[aarmga]

THey make additives for that!

[mlappin]

THey make additives for that!

Yep, all fuel delivered to the farm now has algaecide added since its all B5 anyways. All transfer tanks get filled then I give em an extra shot of algaecide then we drive around a few days before using them the first time to make sure the algaecide gets sloshed all around the inside of the tank. Newer combine uses a primary filter with the water sensor built into it, wanna say forty bucks a pop, don’t wanna replace those everyday.

[slimjim]

Ok, so I'm starting to get a picture here in my mind, stainless can be pitted from electrolysis but it won't corrode/ rust but no protection like a ground cable,  other than boiler treatment and mandatory testing is used to protect the boiler, the nipples are stainless and the elbows are black iron, I came across this last week, it's the second time I have seen it, its supposed to be stainless and Jake told me personally that he had never seen it before, sorry you saw it a year ago and sent him a new air box just like you did this time

[hondaracer2oo4]

This has happened twice to the same guy but none of your other customers? i would think that something environmental is going on with the air coming through?

[slimjim]

Nope, 2 different customers and almost a year apart, both after 1 season!

[hondaracer2oo4]

Any idea how far apart the build dates or s/n are? I wonder if they had a bad sheet of stainless with junk in it?

[slimjim]

I certainly could check on it when I get home, I'm currently delivering an excavator track in southern act so it will be a while.

[hondaracer2oo4]

I'm certainly not a metal expert by any means but doesn't that look like failure caused by impurities? 

[shepherd boy]

  Air boxes used to be mild steel. They are using stainless now. They were seeing some of this and that is why the switch. The new air box should solve the problem. Mild steel and moisture don't mix.

[slimjim]

That's an airbox from one year ago, when I sent them the serial number Jake of course said at first that he had never seen it before and then that yes it must have been an old light duty steel airbox that got mixed in by accident, this is an ISO certified company, how can that happen and it happened to me twice, I guess I'm just lucky huh

[mlappin]

That's an airbox from one year ago, when I sent them the serial number Jake of course said at first that he had never seen it before and then that yes it must have been an old light duty steel airbox that got mixed in by accident, this is an ISO certified company, how can that happen and it happened to me twice, I guess I'm just lucky huh

Guess so.

Got the new airbox for mine, cleaned the old and zero signs of corrosion. Course I suppose some might be hiding in a corner somewhere but unless a person cut it clear apart…..

For some perverse reason the wife likes the look of the Selkirk rain cap on the G200, still has a sticker on the side of the “spark arrestor”, still readable as is the sticker on the top of it. Guess Selkirk must use extremely high temp stuff to make their stickers eh?

I’ve gone thru several “rebuilt” starters from an ISO company on our John Deere loader, first one lasted a week, second worked so well it wouldn’t disengage sometimes, third was finally right. This tractor is literally the worst anything I’ve ever changed a starter on, have several “custom” wrenches made just for the bolt that hides between the backside of the starter and block.

[mlappin]

Far as making your own, unless you are going thru a ton of makeup water not sure it’s worth the hassle, well other than bragging rights.

[shepherd boy]

  Guess we can be mad at the mild steel air box and mad at Jake, or mad at the company mistake if that"s what feels good or be glad for a new stainless air box if that feels good.
    Glad feels better than mad to me, so I'll choose Glad.  Have a great day!

[slimjim]

When will you ever get it? It isn't about being mad, it's about being lied to or misled, I thought you guys were all good Religious folk, there is a passage in there somewhere about it would be better to tie a millstone around your neck and cast it into the water, you might want to freshen up on it.

[slimjim]

Ok so I finally found the serial numbers that both had the issue with the airboxes, first one was installed feb 2016  run one season and found when servicing the next spring it's serial number was 111511 it was sold into Enosburg Falls Vt.
The second actually has a picture on here of us delivering during a snow storm late last fall 2016 it's serial number is 111765 this as well was just discovered this summer during a summer service.
Mind you I must say that HeatMaster did in both cases send out a replacement air box but as I have said several times before, really the customer is expected to be happy that his $11000 boiler needs a repair such as this and they need to do it?