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Magnetite & debris filter

Synkro · 2025-04-01 06:51:55

Planning a power flush shortly and looking for a reccomendation on a filter. Wondering what proportion of debris is non magnetic and would be better filtered via a mesh rather than the majority of filters which appear to be magnet based. I'm deciding between the adey magnaclean professional 3 (has remote monitoring which…

01-04-2025 07:51AM

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Synkro

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Planning a power flush shortly and looking for a reccomendation on a filter. Wondering what proportion of debris is non magnetic and would be better filtered via a mesh rather than the majority of filters which appear to be magnet based.
I'm deciding between the adey magnaclean professional 3 (has remote monitoring which is nice) vs caleffi dirtmag which has external magnetic and a separate particles mesh filter.
Links
https://www.screwfix.ie/p/adey-magnaclean-professional-3-sense-magnetic-filter-22mm/167hf
https://www.bolasystems.com/dirt-separator-with-filter-and-magnet-caleffi-dirtmag-545375-3-4
2nd question
Would you risk powerflushing boiler heater exchanger directly or isolate completely and just flust through the circuit?
Boiler is probably 20-30yrs old gasoil
Thanks

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