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OT cast iron heating radiator question

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rhudson

02-03-2004 22:40:19




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i'm trying to use an old cast iron steam/water heating radiator to cool an old stationary engine. i want to use thermosiphoning instead of a water pump. to do this i need an upper water inlet and lower water outlet in the radiator. now the question, the fitting at the top of the radiator that looks like a pipe plug, is it a pipe plug or is it a nut that is holding the radiator sections together? i was getting ready to heat up the fittng today to try to remove it to gain access to an upper water path when i was informed (by a usually reliable source) that it was not a port but a mechanical fastner. Thanks for any information or ideas.

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rhud with more info

02-04-2004 08:03:56




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 Re: OT cast iron heating radiator question in reply to rhudson, 02-03-2004 22:40:19  
itwill be over the weekend before i can get a picture. the radiator has no outside means of holding the section together. it is now plumbed with inlet and outlet at the bottom right and left. at the upper right and left are identical cast bosses as with the bottom, with what appears to be a pipe plug with hex head installed. the sections come in contact with each other at the tops and bottoms at bosses that are inline with the upper and lower bosses. i'll try to post a picture monday night (if i can figure out how)

Thanks for the help.

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RWK in WI

02-04-2004 17:26:50




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 Re: Re: OT cast iron heating radiator question in reply to rhud with more info, 02-04-2004 08:03:56  
Just a thought, Could you lay the radiator horizontal so one inlet would be a bottom and the other at the top. Possibley put some kind of a plug somewhere in the radiator to force the liquid to move sideways and not straight up and down.



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John Humphrey Morocco IN.

02-04-2004 06:28:44




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 Re: OT cast iron heating radiator question in reply to rhudson, 02-03-2004 22:40:19  
Cast Iron radiators were used 4 ways; Steam; gravity return pressure supply/ vacuum return

Hot Water; one pipe system two pipe system When I was young ( 1940s and 1950s) I helped with pipefitting jobs, taking out cast iron radiators and installing baseboard radiation. We would move some of the radiators to the basement to provide heat down there. When Doing this, we would have to change the taps on the radiator. They all had 4 taps. We removed the plugs with an old pipe wrench and a hand sledge hammer.

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F.E. Bear

02-04-2004 03:51:37




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 Re: OT cast iron heating radiator question in reply to rhudson, 02-03-2004 22:40:19  
Cast iron radiators are held together by tie bolts well below and above the water inlet & outlets. The tie bolts do not come in contact with any water. The plug you mention should go directly into the water passage. If it has only one pipe into the radiator and a plug in the upper end, it was used as a steam radiator. It will be OK to remove the plug and use it.



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paul

02-04-2004 03:46:50




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 Re: OT cast iron heating radiator question in reply to rhudson, 02-03-2004 22:40:19  
A picture would be worth 1000 words - there are different designs, esp if it's a steam radiator, so hard to give a meaningful answer. There should be a large nut holding it all together, and for steam there only _has_ to be 1 pipe fitting, but it could have 2 pipe fittings & would if it was for hot water..... ..

Is there a lower fitting on it? What does the thing you want to heat up look like exactly?

--->Paul

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