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Overheard a journeyman say all new boilers are junk compared to the old ones.

He was talking about a job in Pittsburgh, saying the steel in a 1950s unit was thicker and better. But I've worked on plenty of those old beasts with cracked tubes and efficiency you could measure with a sundial. The new ones I installed last week have monitoring systems that catch problems before they blow. Isn't clinging to the old ways just asking for a call back at 3 AM?
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butler.brian
butler.brian19d agoTop Commenter
Ever had to replace a whole circuit board on a new unit? Sometimes that old steel just needs a weld, not a four hundred dollar part.
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skyler_kim15
Guess I'm junk too, @the_nina. I'm a 1990 model.
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the_nina
the_nina22d ago
That's just how people talk about everything now.
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