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Jay and mike 1
 
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any tips on how to bleed the heat exchanger on the above?
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Jay and mike 1 wrote:

any tips on how to bleed the heat exchanger on the above?


I'm nigh on certain the bleeding is performed by an auto air bleed unit
located near trhe top of the boiler.
The dust cap may not be open (it usually get closed because the whole
unit had started to leak water).
The unit may be stuck fast with crud.

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On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 19:27:27 +0100, Ed Sirett
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Jay and mike 1 wrote:

any tips on how to bleed the heat exchanger on the above?


I'm nigh on certain the bleeding is performed by an auto air bleed unit
located near trhe top of the boiler.
The dust cap may not be open (it usually get closed because the whole
unit had started to leak water).
The unit may be stuck fast with crud.

Yep thats about it Ed..

joe

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