Outdoor Wood Furnace Info
All-Purpose OWF Discussions => General Outdoor Furnace Discussion => Topic started by: lindnova on December 05, 2011, 04:12:26 PM
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Anyone use a y strainer in their water line?
I just installed one thinking it would be a good idea. I have a bypass with valves to clean during service or if it starts restricting flow too much. After 4 years, there was a lot of black sludge coating the pipe. Hopefully this will avoid having a clogged heat exchanger.
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Dealer did not install one on mine. I recently did a sample drain on the low point of OWB and nothing came out so I hope I'm ok.
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Anyone use a y strainer in their water line?
I just installed one thinking it would be a good idea. I have a bypass with valves to clean during service or if it starts restricting flow too much. After 4 years, there was a lot of black sludge coating the pipe. Hopefully this will avoid having a clogged heat exchanger.
here is mine
http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h308/billie_boy7/P2180002.jpg (http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h308/billie_boy7/P2180002.jpg)
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I just put one in a month ago to, never new i needed one!
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Well I put one in to protect my 20 plate heat exchanger. Not sure how I will know when to clean it though.
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gm...i use one filter a year on mine. i usually start my stove in mid to late october and run on last years filter untill some time in november. i figure this should give the old filter a chance to catch all the little "clinkers" that accumulated in the boiler in the summer months from being idle. Then i use my bypass valves and put in a new clean filter for the "heavy burning" that is to come in the coming winter
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gm...i use one filter a year on mine. i usually start my stove in mid to late october and run on last years filter untill some time in november. i figure this should give the old filter a chance to catch all the little "clinkers" that accumulated in the boiler in the summer months from being idle. Then i use my bypass valves and put in a new clean filter for the "heavy burning" that is to come in the coming winter
Willie do you ever find much in the filter? What kind do u use?
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the filters i use look like a woulnd up roll of about 3/16 string (like you buy at the hardware store) when i started//teh replacement filters i get now look like they are pressed or molded out of some type of plastic or hard fibre
i have never really seen and chunks so to say (but some specs) but the white string (the color it goes in when new) is a rusty color.
also when i replace my underground pipe last year it looked like a thin layer of black (thin like ciggerette paper) all around the inside of the kiteck lines. however i have never noticed any cooling of the rads in my house///yet
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The strainer I installed is nothing more than #10 mesh. It looks more like a brass check valve, not a sediment filter bowl. I tried to post pics, but couldn't get the file small enough. After 24 hours, I checked it and there were no large particles and a couple small specs caught in the bottom. I don't expect to have restriction problems and probably will only need to check & flush it a couple times a year.