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Old 07-01-2010, 02:54 PM   #41 (permalink)
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Winding copper tubing around a horizontal exhaust pipe won't work very well. As the water heats up it will turn to steam. As it turns to steam it will want to rise. Since your loops are all horizontal the steam gets trapped at the top of each winding. If you wind the tubing around a vertical pipe you are fine, but there aren't many vertical pipes to wind around.

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