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Re: Installed a main vent and a radiator stopped heating
vapor systems are designed that way. it is very common to use steam pressure to lift condensate in ordinary 2 pipe commercial systems.
mattmia2
Re: Miller CMF2 80 Furnace
Other oil burner maintenance items are better left to a professional. Although many of the Mobil Home furnaces do not lend themselves to combustion analyzer probes because the exhaust pipe is in the negative pressure zone of the duct blower inlet. I have used RTV cement with a 1/4-20 bolt to seal the test hole in some cases where the test was needed to verify the heat exchanger was not compromised or I needed to use a vacuum to remove copious amounts of soot. Most times they are best left to the experienced eye of an oil burner expert. Nozzle replacement, oil filter change, and combustion head cleaning is usually all part of a standard "tune-up" from your oil dealer or oil burner pro.
Re: Peerless 63 Series... Discontinued???
@mattmia2 A pot type burner used kero or #1 oil and was gravity fed from a 275 no pump. It had a constant level valve, and the fire didn't go out. It was like a lantern with a wick almost. When the thermostat shut it down the constant level valve closed down but not off and kept an oil pilot. When the thermostat called for heat, it opened the constant level valve and the flame increased. Perfection Furnace were the ones I saw.
If it was Timken it was a different animal. They had a motor and it was a vertical rotary burner and fired straight up like a pot burner. The motor shaft spun and slung the oil out by centrifugal force.
Timkiens (and there were other vertical rotaries like torrid heat) were very efficient burners. Better than most gun burners at that time. They burned clean with a high Co2.
Re: The Loneliest Place, my new article for PHC News magazine.
I had some beauties in my time. Do I miss it? yes and NO. There is something challenging about it though.
- I stuffed an oil fired boiler full of wood and newspaper and lit it with a match when their LP tank for the gas pilot was empty. Pulled the flame scammer out to fake out the control till it lit main flame.
2. Primed an oil pump with orange juice when I had to get the heat on.
3. Stripped all the 1" blowdown pipe off 3 boilers from the MM 51s and 150s and coupled them all together to make a temp oil suction line to get a burner running out of a 55 gallon drum to keep a building from freezing. Their underground tank had got filled with water and melted snow.
4.Pumped out a burner that was in a pit with the water over the top of the burner. Dried things out, tossed the primary control and put a bunch of jumpers on the subbase to get a burner to fire.
Re: Mystery water leak - excess water take up problem
Whatever your are going to install will cost you the same $$$ pretty much. Toss another Independence in if you want.
That way you don't have to worry about the install. Any decent plumber should be able to cut and paste……………………………..you would think.
And if you install the same boiler and your controls, low water cut off, pressure control etc are ok you can just buy the CI replacement block and save some $$$
really sucks to have this happen in the winter with a boiler that young.
Unfortunately, that is Burnhams MO
Re: Mystery water leak - excess water take up problem
I will give you my opinion and that is all it is. Go with Weil Mclain or Peerless. Stay away from Burnham and any of their re branded names like Crown.
Burnham came into the northeast (I am in MA.) big time in the 80s and 90s & 2000s. The schools were putting them in like crazy and all the installers were pushing them. They must have had good prices because they were taking every commercial job.
They (Burnham) blamed the water (chlorides) everywhere but eastern MA and RI were the worst. They also talked about some portion of the heat exchanger which had hot flue gas on one side and no water on the other.
My problem with them is ok, steam boilers can fail but hot water should go 30 years or more. Well, theirs didn't. I saw job after job with hot water boilers leaking after 10-15 years. I know of a high school with 5 Burnhams built in 2002 and they were all replaced when I retired in 2019 and most of them leaked long before they were replaced. JMHO
Your not that far into NH. I am sure there are some MA contractors with NH licenses. Search around some of the MA border towns. The boiler is shot so ripping the jacket off to find the leak you have nothing to lose. You may be able to slap some JB weld on it to buy some time. Weil McLain EG-50 is 454 sq feet of steam and Peerless 63-04 is 458
Re: Peerless 63 Series... Discontinued???
First time time might involve a tiny learning curve. But it's really very easy.
Re: Peerless 63 Series... Discontinued???
Will need to field assemble the wiring. No big deal. The wiring comes marked. Not well, but if you look at the wires, you will see tiny notes as to which wire goes where
Re: Rollout switch tripping
@Saul , call us on 410-321-8116 and we'll set up an appointment.
