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rob1962

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Graham Tvr1a
« on: July 18, 2012, 01:49:52 pm »
When soldering a lubricator on a Cheddar boiler do i need to use silver solder or would that be overkill any info would be good thank you.


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Re: Graham Tvr1a
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2012, 05:53:10 pm »
Always best to use silver solder for all live steam connections. Did you say you were soldering the lubricator straight on to the boller? you would be better using a screwed union, these are soldered to the lubricator and pipework coming from your stop valve.
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Re: Graham Tvr1a
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2012, 10:07:10 pm »
always keep it as close to the engine as possible .

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