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    Soft water for 1919 tube steamer make up? (2 Posts)

  • Timco Timco June 21, 2012 @ 11:45 PM
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    Soft water for 1919 tube steamer make up?

    Customer has a 1919 huge tube steamer. It's had a few tubes reolaced and the returns are rotted in a few places. One pipe.

    They had another guy tell them a water softening system will make this thing last way longer and will remove deposits from the system.

    Opinions from the pros??

    Thanks, Tim
    Working on steam and hot-water systems isn't rocket science....it's actually much harder.
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  • nicholas bonham-carter nicholas bonham-carter June 22, 2012 @ 12:40 AM
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    way longer

    if this boiler is at the stage of tube replacement, then it is not a spring chicken, whose life-span will be increased by some magic chloride atoms from a softener.
    better to reduce any abnormal need for makeup water instead of softening.--nbc
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