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Post by jonjel on Nov 30, 2015 13:38:36 GMT 1
Mr Sonde,
I don't think we can magnetise this as the pipes which are copper are silver soldered on to the pipe they are designed to cool, which is steel and so magnetic. I have done a bit of reading and think the only real cure will be either strip the bloody thing down or try much stronger HCL.. The HCL will come first!
As for the crowd funding, I am not going to bother. I would be fighting the state and I neither have the energy or the time. What time I have left I will be spending on simple things in life which I hope include my grandchildren. And with any luck blocked pipes or difficult applications, no matter how interesting will be the responsibility of other people here.
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Post by jonjel on Dec 9, 2015 17:32:08 GMT 1
Well the decision was made yesterday to cut into the dammed system. 28% HcL had little or no effect other than removing the paint from the workshop floor. As I speak one of my people is busy with Oxy Acetylene replacing the pipes, which is proving to be easier than we thought it might be.
We were concerned (I was) if we by-passed them, as a previous owner had it would eventually come back to bite us on the bum.
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Post by mrsonde on Dec 10, 2015 1:20:38 GMT 1
Well the decision was made yesterday to cut into the dammed system. 28% HcL had little or no effect other than removing the paint from the workshop floor. As I speak one of my people is busy with Oxy Acetylene replacing the pipes, which is proving to be easier than we thought it might be. We were concerned (I was) if we by-passed them, as a previous owner had it would eventually come back to bite us on the bum. Did you try the magnetic field method?
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Post by mrsonde on Dec 10, 2015 1:23:38 GMT 1
Oh, as you were. Yes - the steel is irrelevant. Industrial boilers are steel. It's the water that you're magnetising - thereby creating a hydrogen efflux at the surface, thereby breaking down the limescale. It works - it can't fail to work.
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Post by mrsonde on Dec 10, 2015 1:28:47 GMT 1
HCl won't work, by the way - it will eventually, of course, but only after weeks of flushing and repetitive application. By which time you'll have destroyed your copper pipes, I shouldn't wonder! The interface is too constricted in the set-up you've described. Sulphuric acid would have been better in that situation.
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