Yeah, John, I'm overdue. I have the commercial stuff, I forget the name but black bottle with orange cap. I've just been too lazy to disconnect the water line and run it in. It works great on scale on the pressure tube at the bottom of the group.
Interesting that the screen on the wand clogged though--that happened a couple of years ago, and I rarely use the wand except for dumping the boiler. b Sent from my apple IIe On Apr 21, 2014, at 11:48, John Brinkman <[email protected]> wrote: > That sounds like a serious scale problem. Have you got an inline water > softener? If not, may be a good idea at looking to get one. > > Would suspect you may be in need of a big descaling session, I usually use > citric acid but suspect you may be looking for something more aggressive. > > JohnB > > > On 21 Apr 2014 19:33, "Benjamin McCafferty" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hey guys and dolls, > > > > The screen on the water wand has long since clogged with scale; even a > > week-long soak in descaler makes no difference. > > > > This morning I went to do my usual once-a-month dump of the steam boiler > > via the water wand (I dump a few times to reduce TDS since I never use the > > water wand) and nothing came out. And I mean nothing--not a bit of steam > > or otherwise. > > > > Is it possible that the valve for the wand has clogged? I presume only > > replacing the valve will fix this? > > > > I am not thinking this bodes well for the boiler. > > > > best, > > bmc > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Brewtus" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected]. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/brewtus. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Brewtus" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/brewtus. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Brewtus" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/brewtus. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
