Hot water for domestic use : a complete guide to the methods of supplying and heating water for domestic purposes, giving each step to be taken and explaining why it is done . ke hardness of water,to prevent incrustation, but the only way is to re-move as much as possible of the mud content ofthe water. A simple means of accomplishing this Mud Deposits 61 is to use a device similar to that shown inFig. 12. To use this device, the bottom connec-tion to the boiler must be larger than the stand-ard size. Into this en-larged opening the mudconnection is connection consistsof an enlarge
Hot water for domestic use : a complete guide to the methods of supplying and heating water for domestic purposes, giving each step to be taken and explaining why it is done . ke hardness of water,to prevent incrustation, but the only way is to re-move as much as possible of the mud content ofthe water. A simple means of accomplishing this Mud Deposits 61 is to use a device similar to that shown inFig. 12. To use this device, the bottom connec-tion to the boiler must be larger than the stand-ard size. Into this en-larged opening the mudconnection is connection consistsof an enlarged pocket orfitting, with the returnpipe connection to thewaterback passing upthrough the center of itto a distance of severalinches above the level ofthe bottom of the this stand pipeis an annular spacethrough which mud, fol-lowing the natural slopeof the bottom of theboiler can settle downinto the mud pocket. Itwill be noticed that whensuch a fitting is used,there is little or no dan-ger of the mud becomingstirred up by the circulation of water between thewaterback and boiler, unless through carelessness innot drawing off the mud occasionally through the. Fig. 12. 62 Hot Water for Domestic Use blow-off connection, it is allowed to accumulate untilit reaches a point above the top of the return pipeto the waterback. Pipe Coils for Heating Water. Some cooking stoves and ranges are not providedwith waterbacks for heating water, and sometimesit is desirable to heat water in an ordinary heatingstove, furnace, or other type of heater. Undersuch conditions heating coils, made of pipe, areused to supply the deficiency of waterback or waterjacket. Usually pipe coils are made of plain,wrought-iron, or steel pipe, put together with ordi-nary steam fittings generally of the return bendpattern. In other cases the coil is made of copperor brass tubing, bent to fit its final resting place inthe firebox. Whatever the material used, the endsare threaded and made long enough to pro
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