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[mlappin]

Snapped a few pics, all I’ll say is next time I’ll get some Logstor couplers and tubing and extend my lines, what I had to work with was what I had from the hookup on my old stove. A foot or less of that stuff is not easy to move around, a hair dryer does work wonders though.

Running a Taco Delta T for the house loop so added the third pump to insure proper flow thru the stove when the Delta T is running on low.

[mlappin]

I should add the shop is lower that the boiler, I already had to fix a few seeps because of the stupid putty. Drained a few gallons out of the shop line in the shop and a few out in the basement and didn’t lose any unhooking lines. Well that and I thought I had two extra isolation flanges around, about the time I started in on this late Friday night I remembered I had already used them elsewhere and wasn’t about to wait till the middle of the next week to get more.

[tinfoilhat2020]

i like the temp gauges.....i was thinking about adding a few....do they cut down on flow have the well immersed?

[slimjim]

I like the heater hose! It works great for that final connection and flexibility!

[tinfoilhat2020]

why the two pumps ran in sequence on the one set of lines? long run???

[mlappin]

why the two pumps ran in sequence on the one set of lines? long run???

The Bell and Gosset pump is to insure proper flow in the stove if the Delta T pump should be running on low for an extended time. Both my runs are around 118’ so no need for a booster pump.

The thermostat just have a 1/4” stem on them that’s in the water flow so very little restriction if any.

The 1” heater hose would have been nice, but just another one of those things that seem rare as hens teeth around here, my local place I deal with could have got it for me if I ordered a full roll. Not to worried about anything shifting though, the Logstor has been in the ground for over a year and the pad has been there for 15, everything should be done settling by now.

[U.P. Doug]

My install was new last year, including the pad. I hard plumbed in from my logstor to the boiler with unions and valves, both shut off and boiler valves. Did not think about my pad moving in the hard winter last year, I went out to fill boiler for the night and found it at 260 with no water in it. I keep my backhoe parked next to it, so I pulled the coals out and put them in the bucket to get the stove cooled down. The raising of the pad pulled the fitting off the logstor. I put a longer piece of pipe in each line to get through the winter, and installed heater hose this spring to give me the flex I need. I found a large selection at McMaster- Carr. They are usually pricey, but have everything in stock and you get it the next day.

[juddspaintballs]

1" heater hose?  That's brilliant!  I've got 1" PEX connected to my Logstor via sharkbites threaded into the Logstor fittings I bought and occasionally the sharkbites leak from the stiff curve the PEX has to make to connect to things.  Maybe I should replace those sections with heater hose and be done with it?

[U.P. Doug]

Nothing like laying on your side in -18 degree weather to figure out a fix so you don't ever have to do that again. They have hose that will take some pretty high heat, as well as stainless braided assemblies that thread onto pipe thread.

[Sloppy_Snood]

How did you fabricate the flexible heater hose section mlappin?

In particular, what are those bands holding the hose to the fitting? 

Also, what is the male threaded to flexible hose fitting (adapter?) called?

I want to fabricate a couple small hoses in a very similar fashion (connecting to 1-inch copper on my boiler).

Thank you Marty. 

[mlappin]

How did you fabricate the flexible heater hose section mlappin?

In particular, what are those bands holding the hose to the fitting? 

Also, what is the male threaded to flexible hose fitting (adapter?) called?

I want to fabricate a couple small hoses in a very similar fashion (connecting to 1-inch copper on my boiler).

Thank you Marty. 

I take it your referring to the orange section of tube?

Thats actually just standard pex, the bands are crimps, Lowes or Menards carries em.

[mlappin]

My install was new last year, including the pad. I hard plumbed in from my logstor to the boiler with unions and valves, both shut off and boiler valves. Did not think about my pad moving in the hard winter last year, I went out to fill boiler for the night and found it at 260 with no water in it. I keep my backhoe parked next to it, so I pulled the coals out and put them in the bucket to get the stove cooled down. The raising of the pad pulled the fitting off the logstor. I put a longer piece of pipe in each line to get through the winter, and installed heater hose this spring to give me the flex I need. I found a large selection at McMaster- Carr. They are usually pricey, but have everything in stock and you get it the next day.

Was pretty frigid here as well last winter but never had a problem with connections coming apart.

Hydraulic return hose would also work well, high heat rating with a 350PSI pressure ratings and not near as stiff as regular hydraulic hose.

[juddspaintballs]

This stuff looks to be the right hose to use.  Finding barbed fittings should be easy too.

McMaster Carr part:

[mlappin]

Not so sure about that, doesn’t give a pressure rating and says for use with gravity flow of liquids.

[juddspaintballs]

My Heatmor is a non-pressurized system, and I think most wood boilers are, or at least very low pressures.  It's a semi-rigid pipe.  I'm not sure what the gravity flow of liquids means, but I bet it'll work perfectly for the intended purpose.