As I've mentioned in a couple previous threads, I've been slowly refurbishing a 1997 Brasilia Portofino 2GR/DIG. I bought it a few months ago and completely disassembled it, descaled and cleaned every single piece, and put it back together. Complete learning experience that I hope I will never have to do again (if it ain't broke...).
So finally, last night I got it working the way it should and even got to pull a shot before I saw a drop of water on the cold water line to the flowmeter, tightened the compression fitting and split the nut, spraying boiler water all over myself, etc. Being the self-starter that I am and not wanting to wait another week to get a part in the mail, I went to a local valves and fittings shop and bought new fittings, cut the pipe, threw it all back together and noticed that in the process, the "T" joint in the line had cracked and was spraying water. No amount of solder on the joint will seal it and no one carries this particular configuration of copper line/joint/fittings.
Ok, one more piece of background before I actually ask a question... I have no desire to run this machine as an automatic and would just as soon throw the flowmeters off a cliff. I've already bypassed the flowmeters at the group by installing 3-way toggle switches to engage the solenoid and pump separately and took off the control panels.
Here's the question:
This is the current set-up: inlet valve -(line)> flowmeter -(line)> heat exchanger. The line from the inlet valve to the flow meter is cracked and, since I'm going to have to fabricate a new line anyway, can I just run it from the inlet valve to the heat exchanger and bypass the flowmeters completely? My only concern is that this might affect the overall flow of water in the machine. I can't imagine that it would do anything differently but I'd hate to be wrong and ruin it further.
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