Advice Needed on an integrated cylinder

[Jock Spanners]

Evening all,

I've got a customer with a fifty year old integrated type cylinder in the loft which is overflowing. It's basically a metal lined wooden box with an immersion heater in the bottom and another smaller box within it near the top which is linked to a warning pipe. There appears to be no float valve. It's fed by an oil boiler. What can I do to stop it overflowing?

Cheers,

Jock

 

[Scott_D]

Elson tank?

 

[Jock Spanners]

Yes. I think it's an Elson tank. I've no experience of them - before my time I'm afraid.

 

[Scott_D]

I have t seen many but I think the last one I removed had a float in the smaller box