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Post by joeq » Tue. Dec. 01, 2015 5:16 pm

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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Post by ddahlgren » Tue. Dec. 01, 2015 10:04 pm

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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Post by joeq » Tue. Dec. 01, 2015 10:53 pm

is that plastic barbed fitting on your stovepipe end, or at the gauge end?

 
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Post by ddahlgren » Tue. Dec. 01, 2015 11:17 pm

joeq wrote:is that plastic barbed fitting on your stovepipe end, or at the gauge end?
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.

 
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Post by joeq » Wed. Dec. 02, 2015 6:23 am

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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Post by ddahlgren » Wed. Dec. 02, 2015 7:53 am

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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Post by lsayre » Wed. Dec. 02, 2015 12:59 pm

ddahlgren wrote:Did it a few days ago well under 1 minute. It was off by around 0.03 so fluid must evaporate.
All liquids evaporate. Even mercury.


 
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Post by Smokeyja » Wed. Dec. 02, 2015 2:23 pm

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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Post by ddahlgren » Wed. Dec. 02, 2015 2:41 pm

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.
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.

 
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Post by joeq » Wed. Dec. 02, 2015 4:08 pm

lsayre wrote:
ddahlgren wrote:Did it a few days ago well under 1 minute. It was off by around 0.03 so fluid must evaporate.
All liquids evaporate. Even mercury.
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.
ddahlgren wrote:
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.
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.
I'm in the same boat.

 
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Post by Lightning » Wed. Dec. 02, 2015 5:08 pm

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.
It doesn't evaporate very fast Joe, I think yer good fer a while.. :lol:

 
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Post by ddahlgren » Wed. Dec. 02, 2015 11:31 pm

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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Post by KingCoal » Sat. Dec. 05, 2015 11:17 am

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. :sick:

 
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Post by joeq » Sat. Dec. 05, 2015 12:06 pm

So how many are looking forward to the cold, so you can crank her up? :D

 
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Post by just peter » Sat. Dec. 05, 2015 12:12 pm

I do. :)

Please let the winter begin.

Peter.


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