SERVOWARM...anyone know of them?

[mutley racers]

Hey chaps, i have been renewing a central heating sytem today. New pipe work, boiler the lot. Basically, the client had one of these servowarm behind the radiator boilers in.

What i want to know really is, are heat exchangers worth any money? Because the thing that i pulled from behind the radiator is like a metre squared. Huge, and really really heavy!!!!

So, any ideas?

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

is it made of copper? does it look like a combi heat exchanger?

 

[twistednuts]

I took one of these babies out a few months ago. They are seriously heavy arent they.
I just left the radiator by the gate and waited for one of them eagle eyed scrap guys to spot it. And he did. The deal was if he gave me a lift out with the boiler he could have it. Very awkward to carry, id never have done it on me own.

They probably are worth a tenner or somethin, but its not worth hurtin ya back for.

 

[twistednuts]

is it made of copper? does it look like a combi heat exchanger?

If it was copper i would have risked hurtin me back for it 🙂 Just a massive flat lump of cast

 

[Billy Bob Bob]

If it was copper i would have risked hurtin me back for it 🙂 Just a massive flat lump of cast

cast not worth the hassle,no money in iron/steel

 

[mutley racers]

No. it does not look like a combi heat exchanger. A big massive piece of cast iron i guess.

I also wacked 5 rads on the door step where i was working. I asked the client if they had any pikey,s around, he said no. Within 20 minutes they were all gone.

Bummer its not worth anything.

 

[tamz]

I normally give that stuff to the usual street patrols but the other week no one came around so i threw it in the back of the van and dropped it at the scrappies on the way home.
Fire and bbu and 7 rads £23.

 

[Halesowen1]

Servowarm?? are these the systems with a crazy hanging basket style thing, you need a watering can to keep topping up the system?? The one I ripped out deffo had this.

 

[tamz]

Thats the ones. It's called an urn. Usually accompanied with truwell pipe and dodgy dimpled (on the back) rads.
Servowarm were among the pioneers of domestic gas central heating. Even before big gas.

 

[diamondgas]

The servowarm master radiator ... ahhhhhhhhh! Replaced a load of them with Apollo's back in the 80's ... That's what my back tells me anyhow!!!:wheelchair:

 

[stevetheplumber]

i havent seen one of those for years now leaked at the drop of a hat and thermocouple was a nightmare to get

 

[scorps]

served the test of time though if we're still coming across em

 

[Nigelthegasman]

It was called a supreme 40. They put them in by the 1000's normally heat only but occasionally fitted with a cylinder and heating. It was a good boiler although suffered with the door hinges leaking every time you opened the front. Shame the concept has never been followed up with modern technology

 

[jtsplumbing]

Brings back memories from the 70s, installed loads of Servowarm systems in the S/West (Devon/Cornwall)

 

[Dotty]

Please register with us and start a new thread Nigel.