Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 20:11:14 -0500
Reply-To: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: NVC: What is inside of a Radiator??
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I've been to Europe and most all the radiators I've ever seen there are
run on boilers in the basement.
As such you must address the boiler then it will address the radiators.
There are standard water softening, scale removal chemicals for radiator
maintenance.
Shouldn't be a problem even in Austria to find it ................. Duh!
Call a plumber he'll have some to sell you.
Stan Wilder
On Sun, 4 May 2003 02:44:58 +0200 Robert Steven Fish
<fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> Since I just bought this old house (built in 1952) I have been
> discovering
> the most amazing things.
>
> From lead pipes to electric wiring with no ground, to coffee cans in
> the
> walls (apparently post war houses here were built with whatever they
> could
> lay their hands on... and sometimes they just filled up coffee cans
> with
> gravel and used them as bricks!!)
>
> Anyway... I have been bringing my Vanagon over to the new place
> pretty much
> everyday. Today I drained the heating system, which is a bunch of
> cast iron
> radiators, connected to a central water cooker in the basement.
>
> When I took each radiator off, I empied what was left inside of it
> out into
> a bucket. The most amazing black slime came out... and it stank
> like
> heating oil, or some other nasty petroleum product.
>
> Now that got me to thinking... what is in a radiator anyway?? In a
> Vanagon
> you could put just plain old tap water, but you would get tons of
> rust and
> corrosion fast, not to mention mineral deposits.
>
> In a house I would have thought that you would have pure water in
> the
> system.... but alas, the same thing would happen... right? But if
> you have
> oil in your Vanagon radiator fluid... that is a rather bad sign and
> means
> that two fluids which are not normally meant to ever mingle... have
> miingled. Is this the same with my house radiator, which is a
> heating oil
> powered creature, with water flowing through its veins?
>
> So do those of you who remember old cast iron house radiators have
> any tips
> and/or tricks for me?? After I flush all these radiators, and have
> them
> painted with car enamel... I will have to fill them up again.
> Should I use
> VW Blue RJ-11 (or whatever the PN is)??
>
> Thanks. Since this is pretty much way off topic, please reply to me
> via
> Fish-Mail, so we do not bore the other list members.
>
> RSF
>
> ! In order to reply to me, you must have the word "FISH"
> somewhere in the subject line of the email. Otherwise it goes
> directly in
> the trash.
>
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