I'd just replace that. Ours here was full of sludge and deposits we do live in a hard water area but it seems to me thats coming the end of its useful life!...
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Copper cylinder question.
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Which may well be a bit "furred up" at that age...
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Okay, well I'll see what it looks like when I drain it and get it out. It's a bit cramped in there, so I don't want to work on it in an awkward position.
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We have lovely soft water, but I expect there will be the same sort of black grit we find in the header tank. I'll see how it looks when I get it out.
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Soft water attacks copper. (As you have found out) There's likely to be other incipient holes waiting to appear. Hard water furs it up. (You can't win).
Thirty years old...it's likely to be dead. Get a new one.
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If it's a soft water area, then probably true.
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We had a man in to replace our boiler. I asked him to fit a new cylinder while he was at it - the old one didn't have any decent insulation, and certainly didn't have a decent coil.
When he tried to undo the immersion the thread tore out of the top instead of the immersion coming out.
When two of them tried to carry it out the bottom cracked all the way around, and nearly came off.
When I saw it outside it was a third full of green scale.
30 years old or so... ring a bell?Andy
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Thats just what happened to ours .. at 20 years!...