Marco Flamingo
Guru
- Joined
- Jan 7, 2020
- Messages
- 1,113
- Location
- United States
- Vessel Name
- CHiTON
- Vessel Make
- Tung Hwa Clipper 30
I have been working on running down a leak in my coolant system. When removing the heat exchanger hose from my hot water tank, it felt moist and crumbled in my hand. So I think I found the leak. I bought 50' of heater hose and replaced everything in the system.
But I had put coolant in and topped it off several times during the fix. Each time I had to remember to open the pet cock on the manifold and bleed out the air so that I could get a better read on whether I was losing coolant. Then I thought of the automatic bleeder that I have on the hydronic floor heat in my house. It is the same thing that is used on radiator heating systems in old buildings. It automatically burps out the air but not the liquid. They make them that are okay with glycol antifreeze and can handle way more pressure than the FL will ever make. It even looks like it might be the same size and thread as my petcock. Anybody using one of these to automatically eliminate the possibility of a big bubble in the FL manifold?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000MINF3...colid=Q5XMA49EDB8L&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
Mark
But I had put coolant in and topped it off several times during the fix. Each time I had to remember to open the pet cock on the manifold and bleed out the air so that I could get a better read on whether I was losing coolant. Then I thought of the automatic bleeder that I have on the hydronic floor heat in my house. It is the same thing that is used on radiator heating systems in old buildings. It automatically burps out the air but not the liquid. They make them that are okay with glycol antifreeze and can handle way more pressure than the FL will ever make. It even looks like it might be the same size and thread as my petcock. Anybody using one of these to automatically eliminate the possibility of a big bubble in the FL manifold?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000MINF3...colid=Q5XMA49EDB8L&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
Mark