Recent content by goleary

Terrance - man, what a pain. I consulted with my plumber - showed him the nearest union, wandered around the basement hoping to find something that would make it better, cussed the guy who did it, and realized how useless cussing someone dead at least 40 years was. In my case there was no...

HJ, I checked out a couple of the nipples, they do seem to be threaded in opposite directions on either end, at least where I had a chance to look this morning. I need to take a wire brush to them to confirm though, I just traced them with my fingernail. There's a union... about ten feet up...

Ah! Yeah, close to a hundred might be an underestimation - house is ~1885, I don't know enough about heating systems to know if this is original, but it is most certainly old. I gather then that it's time to whip out the phone and call my plumber? At least get his advice on what to wreck to...

Ouch... Why's that? I've gotta get that linoleum tile up... which means that at least one of them has to come out (most unfortunately the one I posted the pics of).

Of course now I realize that the picture I picked as an example shows the nipple welded into the bushing... This is the only one like this as far as I know, the rest are threaded. This one I guess I'm going to try turning the bushing (with nipple!) out of the radiator to disconnect, unless...

Good morning all, I've got 6 great big cast iron column radiators piped through the floor, which I'm trying to get sanded and poly'd. Prep steps already taken care of - system's drained... anything else? There's no shutoff valve - piping comes up from the basement below, hits a ninety...