[Roy Harding]

Some more photo's on pipe work.

[Roy Harding]

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[prestige cleaners]

hi roy, what rubber tubing for the gas did you use, its 8mm from the regulator, but looks like 12-15mm at the boiler? do i need an adaptor?

[Clive McDonald]

Hi Roy.
That's quite interesting.


If i've got it right you have four outlet ports fed by both hot and cold water?

I'm not sure this arrangement will have the flow for thermofog to fire up.

I may be mistaken as to how you have arranged things.

I assume one of the white bits on the yellow hose is an inline filter.

A good idea would be a tee and tap back to tank on the red hose.Of course a short hose from one of your outlet ports to the tank lid would do the same job if needed.

[Roy Harding]

What I have done is Put a T in after di bottle.

One straight blue pipe from the T to the four way valve.

Then the other pipe from the T  to the heater, and a red pipe hot back to the four way valve.

The way the water gets in to the four way valve is by turning the tap on, ie red for hot blue for cold.

And it does work.

As for the gas pipe still waiting for propane regulator. But have tried it with butane.


Roy

[Roy Harding]

hi roy, what rubber tubing for the gas did you use, its 8mm from the regulator, but looks like 12-15mm at the boiler? do i need an adaptor?

Just warm the 8mm pipe with some boiling water goes on fine.

Roy

[prestige cleaners]

cheers roy.

[Clive McDonald]

So the outlet ports are fed by either hot or cold, but not both at the same time? This is what i wondered.

I assume this is to feed two reels.Is this the same plumbing you had before you had the idea of a heater?

What i'm asking here is does one pump feed two poles okay when for instance one is doing ups the other downs?

[prestige cleaners]

does it have to be fitted exactly vertical?

[Roy Harding]

So the outlet ports are fed by either hot or cold, but not both at the same time? This is what i wondered.

I assume this is to feed two reels.Is this the same plumbing you had before you had the idea of a heater?

What i'm asking here is does one pump feed two poles okay when for instance one is doing ups the other downs?

Your correct one pump feeding two pole been like that 7yrs or more, we always seemed to have one dominant brush. But since using gardeners brushes with smaller jets we dont get that problem.

The inlet top left is blanked. I'm pushing the water in to the valve the wrong way with the red or blue pipe if both are turned of no water gets to the 4 way valve. So turning on the blue or red gives flow to the the valve.

I did this so I can chose hot or cold by opening just one valve. 

So all I have to do is turn on the 2 far right, and then chose hot or cold.

Roy

[Clive McDonald]

Very clever. I have two man hot but go two pumps after instead of before heater.Your system may well be better.

You will find two man delivers a perfect flow for the heater (Ie it works better than one man).

Anyway apart from the omission i pointed out(no return to tank) it is the best and neatest plumbed i've seen.The tie breaker would be how you've retained the lpg.

[Ste M]

Roy, where did you get the white filters from that you have before and after the heater?

[Roy Harding]

Roy, where did you get the white filters from that you have before and after the heater?

Hi Steve

It is isolation valve to stop the water flow, not an in line filter.

Roy

[Sir Squeaky]

You've got a hell of a lot  of stuff in your van Roy.

I do hope your van doesn't fail! It would take me all of 20 minutes to transfer my kit to another van!

[Roy Harding]

You've got a hell of a lot  of stuff in your van Roy.

I do hope your van doesn't fail! It would take me all of 20 minutes to transfer my kit to another van!

Your right Roger, last night -14 here so the battery took a hammering as its 6 years old. So off to get another later.

Roy

[LWC]

hey Roy you say the inlet is blocked off yeh? Will water come out of it if it wasnt blocked? If it does come out maybe you could pipe off it with a tap and use it to fill a trad bucket with hot?

[Roy Harding]

hey Roy you say the inlet is blocked off yeh? Will water come out of it if it wasnt blocked? If it does come out maybe you could pipe off it with a tap and use it to fill a trad bucket with hot?

I blocked it off with speed fit end stop, so no water will come out. And I use one off the out lets to the trolleys to fill the bucket.

But it could be available if needed.

I'm doing more revamps of my van, but its so dam cold out there.

Roy

[Ste M]

so at the moment your running two reels from one pump? how does it get on with this then as im running one reel off my L5 and the other off my Fogwash. If however i could set mine up like yours is a 100 psi pump up to running both reels at what could be 100metres?

[Roy Harding]

so at the moment your running two reels from one pump? how does it get on with this then as im running one reel off my L5 and the other off my Fogwash. If however i could set mine up like yours is a 100 psi pump up to running both reels at what could be 100metres?

I have been running 2 poles from one pump for 6-7yrs now. It is still the same pump 100psi flowjet. In the early days I used shureflow but went trough 3 pumps in about 3  months.

I sometimes have one person running a hundred meters of half inch hose, and at the same time another running 50 meters of half inch hose. But have not tried it yet with hot as still waiting for regulator and cabinet for propane.

Roy

[LWC]

hey Roy you say the inlet is blocked off yeh? Will water come out of it if it wasnt blocked? If it does come out maybe you could pipe off it with a tap and use it to fill a trad bucket with hot?

I blocked it off with speed fit end stop, so no water will come out. And I use one off the out lets to the trolleys to fill the bucket.

But it could be available if needed.

I'm doing more revamps of my van, but its so dam cold out there.

Roy

Very clever mate, really good idea. I like it. Just a thought tho, turning the heater off would give you cold water? So do you need a cold feed?