windyhill4.2 wrote:McGiever, earlier you posted that I should be installing a wye strainer b4 the manifold,is there any concern that dirt could plug the strainer & stop the entire flow of water thru the boiler ?Or does dirt in the screen not affect the water flow thru/past the screen ? If dirt clogs a circulator,only that circuit would stop flowing.I am trying to put another order together,hopefully the last one & want to get all the remaining missing pieces.
No concern of plugging.
Wye Strainer gets a drain valve where you would open the valve and purge what has collected inside the strainer.
Strainer inside is a little basket and can hold a bit of debris, just periodically open the valve and find out what has collected.
Without strainer your water lubed circ. pumps would be running w/ sand like abrasives in it...sand makes a poor lubricant.
Bigger particles may remain in bottom or lowest part of the vessel and your only chance of removal is cracking the low point boiler drain seasonally early before things would get stirred up or after has been let sit a while. But since the particles are trapped they pose less problem than the smaller circulated ones.