candle burner maintenance

Empire_2

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Stephan

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For those who have a candle burner boiler read this. This week end I took the burners manifold out of my boiler. Some burners were not burning efficently so I decide to clean them. An old man told me to boil them in a vinegar solution so I did. It took the dirt right out of them. I also cleaned the gaz hole at the base of each burner with a needle. There was a lot of black dirt in there. Then I put everything back together and what a difference it made. My burner stay on for a shorter time. I can move steam to radiator that were hard to reach before and they get hot all the way across. I will definetly put that on my annual maintenance list. It work for me, hope it work for you.

Mark Hunt

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Jason_15

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What is a candle burner boiler?

Stephan

Hi Jason
A candle burner is made of, on my boilers, five rows of fifteen little burner. They sit on a manifold that distribute the gaz to each of them. So when you look at the assembly it look like a bunch of candle on a cake. Each candle have a gaz intake and an air intake. The gaz intake is threw the part that screw in the manifold.The air intake is four bigger hole around the base of the candle. If the gaz hole is partly or completly obstructed it will result in a lean mixture and lost of burner Btu's. If the air hole are dirty it will result in a too rich mixture and you will waste fuel. Cannot do that with the price of gaz nowdays...
I had somebody come in and look at my boiler before I start working on it. He told me that I had to change it. But before to do so I decided to get educated to give it a fair shot. So I bought the book from Dan Holohan "The lost art of steam heating". I fix all the little thing that have been neglected by the previous owner as I go. After a lot of fine tuning on radiator pitch, main air vents, radiator vents, main pipe insulation, burner maintenance, valve leak, thermostat anticipator adjusment, pressurtrol adjustment, my boiler is doing fine and perform like it's suppose to. There is a lot more to a steam system then the boiler. Those books were the best investment I ever made. Good luck.