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You should be able to see an arc across the electrodes when it is trying to ignite?
Removed it (and the ignition transformer) and there is a nasty crack across on part of the electrode. Connections were also black and brittle. Unlikely to get a good spark, I think.
Black transformer box is bloated and puffy. I'm guessing it is the original from 1999.
Who on here as any experience of these?
Looks like our old oil boiler from 1999 is pretty shot, so not worth throwing good money after bad in order to get it to limp on for another couple of years.
We have a plentiful supply of wood, so commercial wood pellets for the biomass boiler would not be required. This would help with running costs.
Also, I believe there is a £5000 government grant available.
Unless the heat exchanger and baffles are completely shot, it's always possible to keep them going for affordable money. All the bits to fix the burner are generally pretty cheap.
I think I have eliminated most of the possible culprits....
There is plenty of oil getting to the pump and nozzle, but no spark.
Photocell seems to function as it should.
This leaves the control box and ignition transformer.
Tried to diagnose an intermittent issue on sons 05 Civic.
Every once in a while the temp gauge climb to the top and at the same time very little heat comes from the vents with heater turned up to max.
Im thinking possibly a sticky thermostat ?
Who on here as any experience of these?
Looks like our old oil boiler from 1999 is pretty shot, so not worth throwing good money after bad in order to get it to limp on for another couple of years.
We have a plentiful supply of wood, so commercial wood pellets for the biomass boiler would not be required. This would help with running costs.
Also, I believe there is a £5000 government grant available.
You're an old man now, Mr JamesV6CDXAnd lets be honest, for anyone under 40, as long as it has CarPlay, nothing else matters.
This fills me with gratitude, that at the age of 41 and a bit, my daily driver is still an Omega V6which can't play anything from my phone, and keeps skipping the tracks on CDs until it's warm. I am clearly just out of that age threshold
Just not as old as STEMO, obviously.
I can still manage a half a shandy and a curry, if ever you're game. It's been a bloody long time. Maybe this time we can skip the part where we bench press an AR35 onto an Omega, first?
Had the plumber coming to service my boiler earlier, but he didn't turn up.If your boiler is working, why bother with a service? They only clean things up, it can still pack up the minute he's out the door
When I phoned him he said he couldn't come as he was doing another job and wouldn't be able to come round before Christmas.
I'm not having much luck with tradies at the mo.
Well if something did happen it's a handy get out for the insurance company if it hasn't been serviced within the last 12 months, and I'm a bit paranoid about gas, so like to check it's gas tight every year.
True, and exactly my point.If Europe could make a decision about it, it wouldn't take much more support for Ukraine (along with more sanctions against Russia) to turn Putin's feeling that he's gradually winning to one of gradually losing.Since when has 'Europe' ever made a decision, about anything? Too many competing interests, ideas and cultures. If Russia nuked the UK, Europe would find a way to say that we're not really European and, anyway, it's our own fault for being so British.
That would be a game changer. The US can't be relied upon to do the right thing so Europe's future is in Europe's hands...
A small tanker type of truck was in front of me today as I drove home.
Reg plate was T11ETS or similar so it was obviously for emptying septic tanks.
It had a sticker on the back which made me laugh out loud.
"NO STOOLS ARE LEFT IN THIS VEHICLE OVERNIGHT".
I've turned the burner around (so it is facing outward)...
Good job there was no spark or you'd have had an industrial sized flame thrower to deal with.
But I won't be investing in any British stocks.
What they're saying is there were pre-accident fatigue cracks in 3 of the 4 mounting lug surfaces for the #1 engine. The engine "fell off" when the 4th lug gave way under the overstress of the take off. Whilst it's possible a bird strike was the straw that broke the camels back, the root cause of the accident is the fatigue cracks. It appears the design can withstand cracks in one and two of the 4 lugs, but if/when the third cracks the fourth isn't strong enough to hold it all together. And you wouldn't expect it to be.
So the report will IMHO concentrate on how/why these cracks occur, and how to inspect them such that the fault is detected when the first crack appears, rather than waiting for the engine to fall off when all 4 become cracked.
Point being just because your house is hypothetically worth X amount doesn't mean you paid anything like it
And yet 60% of homes in Norway have them, and year ok year they don't all freeze to death...
I think it's far more likely that we in the UK don't have the expertise to size, install and configure them correctly (yet).
