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Waxie soot build up

Al Corelli_2
Al Corelli_2 Member Posts: 395
in THE MAIN WALL
Just took out a WM68 that saturated. Stunk up the whole house. Nothing else smells like that. UGH.

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  • doug_14
    doug_14 Member Posts: 15


    IN THE LAST MONTH .I HAD A FEW CALLS LAST WEEK ASKING THIS
  • Frenchie
    Frenchie Member Posts: 113
    Oil tech talk

    I think this is usually called cold soak or running saturation. There is a whole thread about this right now on oil tech talk.com Check it out, it's a good website for oil burners.
  • J.C.A._3
    J.C.A._3 Member Posts: 2,980
    For an even .....

    More discussed and in-depth reading, Check out Firedragon.ent discussion board.

    These are some of the finest minds from "Oildom", hashing over the point.

    We all know what happens...but the WHY is the big question. Sign up, sign in and maybe add to the discussion.(this is a "professional site only" . Homeowners may read, but will have to pass the scrutiny of the administrator to get access.Just a warning).Chris
  • Al Corelli_2
    Al Corelli_2 Member Posts: 395
    Oh, I know why...

    The homeowner "pushed the button a whole bunch of times" to try to get it to light.

    Then, it did light. The smoke pipe was cooked thin. The boiler had fire in it where it was never designed to have fire.
    And that sticky, smelly OOZE! UGH! We lifted the jacket to see the entire boiler covered in coked up oil. It seeped past the rope seals and coated the whole boiler.

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  • J.C.A._3
    J.C.A._3 Member Posts: 2,980
    Al.

    I could post a dissertation on this, and it would still fall on deaf ears.

    Oil companies have the "foot in the door" already. If they choose to NOT make a difference....it's their own damn fault!

    I came from the oil industry, I LEARNED the gas side only to keep my butt covered. If the "dark side"is where I have to work.....so be it. I figure I have to go another 15 years or so...Where the heat come from..... in the piping, I don't care at this point anymore.

    I can DO BOTH...but if the oil industry doesn't smartten up soon, I'll have made the right move. Chris
  • mtfallsmikey
    mtfallsmikey Member Posts: 765
    I don't know how things are now, but

    Back in the day, before flame retention burners and such,this condition was usually caused by dust/lint clogging the air shutter, burner running super-rich, with a spritz of poor shut off and after drip to put the icing on the cake. I'd rather smell raw sewage than this! brought back some old memories of the worst furnaces/boilers that I used to deal with.
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