Building a New Era Base Burner
- joeq
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Isn't there a rubber hose going to the plastic gauge itself? Or did you make a metal connection to the plastic nipple at the gauge? My copper tube connects to the rubber hose supplied by Dwyers, and I disconnect it, to adjust it, like Lee does.
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I used 10 feet of 1/4 copper tubing (tubing coiled around a can of spray paint)to a compression fitting and 1/8 pipe union that the Dwyer supplied plastic barbed fitting screwed into.
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Stovepipe 10 feet coiled copper tubing 1/4 compression fitting to 1/8 pipe coupler to 1/8 pipe plastic fitting to match the Dwyer hose.joeq wrote:is that plastic barbed fitting on your stovepipe end, or at the gauge end?
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Then there is your "quick disconnect". When you want to zero your gauge, simply remove the rubber hose from the 1/8" plastic coupler, and reset your your gauge. "Easy peasey". (Or do you already know that?)
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All liquids evaporate. Even mercury.ddahlgren wrote:Did it a few days ago well under 1 minute. It was off by around 0.03 so fluid must evaporate.
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have you all thought of switching your Manometers to a differential pressure gauge such as the Dwyer Magnehelic ? no mess, no fluid, no fuss.
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When I run out of the supplied red juice will give it some thought but for now at least 2 or 3 more years left in it.Smokeyja wrote:have you all thought of switching your Manometers to a differential pressure gauge such as the Dwyer Magnehelic ? no mess, no fluid, no fuss.
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No! Say it's not so Larry. My mercury sw Honeywell thermostat has been more reliable than any of the "temporary" replacement circuit board crap that I tried, and ended up back with the mercury one. Even put a second thermostat in my upstairs hallway, and was fortunate enuff to confiscate a mercury switched Sears model bought in the 70s. I'ld hate to think they will become "inoperable" soon.lsayre wrote:All liquids evaporate. Even mercury.ddahlgren wrote:Did it a few days ago well under 1 minute. It was off by around 0.03 so fluid must evaporate.
I'm in the same boat.ddahlgren wrote:When I run out of the supplied red juice will give it some thought but for now at least 2 or 3 more years left in it.Smokeyja wrote:have you all thought of switching your Manometers to a differential pressure gauge such as the Dwyer Magnehelic ? no mess, no fluid, no fuss.
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It doesn't evaporate very fast Joe, I think yer good fer a while..joeq wrote:No! Say it's not so Larry. My mercury sw Honeywell thermostat has been more reliable than any of the "temporary" replacement circuit board crap that I tried, and ended up back with the mercury one. Even put a second thermostat in my upstairs hallway, and was fortunate enuff to confiscate a mercury switched Sears model bought in the 70s. I'ld hate to think they will become "inoperable" soon.
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I have a couple mercury thermostats and thermometers and have lasted 50 years and still spot on. The mercury is in a sealed glass tube and no place to evaporate to as not open to the air. They were banned by tree huggers when all that was needed was a way to get rid of them like the very 'safe' NiCad and Lithium batteries.
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having decided I like the new tending practices and hopper so much that i'm going to work up a convertible funnel for the top so I can use any length of "drop" pipe I wish.
this will be a 2 piece affair and hope to have some pics in the next couple days.
the way the weather is going here I may not get the fire bed depth above 9 inches till the 1st of Jan. on the surface that seems all positive but I have vague concerns of what's waiting out there from Jan.- April.
this will be a 2 piece affair and hope to have some pics in the next couple days.
the way the weather is going here I may not get the fire bed depth above 9 inches till the 1st of Jan. on the surface that seems all positive but I have vague concerns of what's waiting out there from Jan.- April.
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I do.
Please let the winter begin.
Peter.
Please let the winter begin.
Peter.