Apology

[vee-tail]

With the mods permission I would like to apologise for offending some guys here in a recent post.
Seems like I gave the impression of being a meddling DIYer, intent on wrongly fitting an unvented cylinder and liable to kill or maim the innocent.
If that was true your concerns would be justified and I thank you for raising them.
However that is not the case, and I will be installing the cylinder according to the G3 regs with which I am familiar. The heavy kit needed to deal with large dia pipes and holes in stone walls are to hand, and the cylinder will be properly assembled and fitted. Should it ever malfunction the boiling water & steam will safely pass through the walls and out of the building.
Recently the Tyne engine on a Qantas Airbus threw a turbine blade. This passed through the wing and they were lucky not to lose the aircraft. The engineers theorised on the cause of the fault, but it was a technician on the factory floor who figured out that they had fitted the wrong sort of oil seal on the turbine shaft. In the same vein there are people posting here who have a lifetimes experience of for example: Fixing cranky oil boilers, removing stuck immersion heaters without wrecking the tank, fault finding three phase electrics, drilling holes in concrete, soldering lead plumbing in listed buildings, etc ….
It’s to tap into that wisdom that I came here to this forum … I might know a bit about quite a lot of engineering disciplines, but the detailed knowledge based on long experience of some here is invaluable.
Again please excuse my un intended offence, and I hope to be able to continue to ask dumb questions. :smile5:

 

[fogarty]

So you have your unvented ticket ?

 

[on31ll]

our point was that you need to hold the G3 qualification and be part of a competent persons scheme (BPEC etc) its all well and good being able to read the manual but are you G3 qualified ?

nobody on here doesnt want to not give out information because thats what we are here for really (or in some cases some lads to just hijack all threads and talk about land rovers) but we know the dangers and those dangers can cost lives. i presume you have had alot of time in education for ur job etc etc and you talk about the tyne engine on the quantas flight but if i turned to you and said hey i read the book about fitting the engine but didnt have the qualification or the classroom experiance would you let me fit it ? no you wouldnt.


anyway not having a go we just like everyone to be safe and to be fair we spend alot of money for these qualifications and registrations and they might be stupid but we need them to work so why should everyone else who has some knowledge fit them without all the quals and cards ?


have a good day vee-tail

 

[Guest123]

Thank you for taking the time vee-tail to post this.

It is often difficult to guage a person's response from behind a keyboard but in general it was the opinion that qualifications are required to properly and legally carry out the works you describe. If this is the case and you have these qualifications then the forum members wish you all the best with your install. If this is NOT the case then I urge you to heed the advice given and get a qualified engineer in to carry out your install.

Either way, to stop this thread going round in circles, and as the advice has been given and you have taken this on board, THREAD CLOSED.