Doobie,
Under what premise can you mix the too, you can always make something fit,
hell that is easy. What I was wondering is what principles are you using to
make your statement that you can mix cu with ci.

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"Doobielicious" wrote in message
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"El-Jay" wrote in message
...
I am definitely no expert in this area, but when I wanted to do the same
thing (replace 2 cast iron radiators with baseboard heat), every plumber
and
plumbing supply house I spoke with said, "You can't mix copper baseboard
units with cast iron radiators".

That's bull****!! You can mix copper with cast iron with a few simple
threaded fittings.





Apparently they do sell cast iron baseboard-style radiators, but they
are
extremely expensive. Also, there is some fomula they use that tells you
how
many feet of the horizontal baseboard-style units it would take to
replace
the heating value of each upright cast iron unit.

Bottom line for me was that I had a plumber replace two cracked cast
iron
radiators with similar sized used radiators that came out of an old
house.

"Tom" wrote in message
...
We have an older house with a few hot water radiators in places we'd
rather put furniture. I'd like to replace a few of them with
baseboard
heat. We have a single pipe system with each radiator fed off the
"main"
line and a circulation pump. The boiler runs about 170F.

This seems to me to be a relatively simple matter of properly sizing
the
baseboard and re-piping, but I'm always underestimating these things.
Can
anyone offer some advice? Is there a preference for cast-iron versus
fin-tube baseboard units? Is there a simple way to predict baseboard
size
from radiator size?

Thanks,
Tom