Old Boiler Expansion Tank

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Old boiler expansion tank.

Other than that the old non diaphragm type of boiler expansion tank is fine. Finned copper baseboard convectors unit heaters cast iron radiators or cast iron heating baseboards and the heat output of the heating boiler in 1000s of btus hour or output btuh. Then the expansion tank drain is opened. All components are original with system.

In that it has to be drained as part of a maintenance scheduled. Additionally while in a bladder type the air and the water stays separated by a diaphragm. We end up with an expansion tank empty of water and filled with air at atmospheric pressure which technically is 14 psi 1 atm but in a practical sense is zero psi with respect to the boiler. The tank will work fine until it rusts out provided that it is maintained.

Old expansion tank i have a customer with an old in the ceiling expansion tank on his peerless boiler. In a steel expansion tank the air and the water touch each other. Most of these old tanks use a special expansion tank drain valve that lets air into the tank as water drains out. To use these boiler expansion tank sizing charts you need to know just the type of heating system radiation used.

A description of how the old style expansion tank provides a cushion for expanding water in a hot water boiler system. I opened up the drain valve till water stopped flowing then turned the water feeder back on. Keeps weeping off relief valve. Steel expansion tanks still exist today although many newer hot water boiler systems use the bladder type expansion tank.

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