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  • 03-03-2018 11:36am
    #1
    Foggy Jew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 776 ✭✭✭


    Hi. I'm not a plumber, so unfamiliar with technical jargon, please forgive my use of non-plumbery words.
    I have a double radiator which is prone to air-locking. A plumber friend gave me a gadget about 3inches long with a little spinny thing at the end. Usually when the rad starts gurgling & swooshing , I put the little spinny thing into a nozzle on the inside of the top of the radiator, give it a few cautious turns, the air escapes & the radiator fills up & gets hot. I do the same with the second one & all is good.
    However, I don't seem to be able to get any purchase either nozzle with my little spinny thing. The spinny thing looks ok.... It doesn't seem mishapen... Because of the position of the rad, I cant get a good look at the nozzles, but I'm puzzled that both should give trouble at the same time. Any of you good folk out there with any suggestions? Thanks

    It's the bally ballyness of it that makes it all seem so bally bally.



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  • #2
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    Spinny thing is a vent key. There are different types but it sounds like you have a veha key.

    The vent key grips a tiny square shaped head to vent the radiator. I'd hazard a guess that over time you have ringed the square shaped head & the key can no longer grip the head.

    Most people need to vent rads once or twice a year. I haven't needed to do mine for over 10 years now. If you text regularly venting rads then you are regularly letting fresh water into the system. This can eventually rust the rads from the inside out.


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