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Burner whining...

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loudburner
loudburner Member Posts: 2
edited January 2022 in Oil Heating
My 24 y/o Riello started making this noise...  see youtube link to hear below.  it's been regularly serviced since new.  next service date is in 3 days.  

https://youtube.com/shorts/9MUeH3FHofU?feature=share

assume it's a bad bearing or something, ok to wait the 3 days?  or push the service company to get someone down here asap?

UPDATE:  tech listened to video, they stated ok to wait til Friday.. i have that in writing should it come back to haunt me....:)

thanks


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  • Big Ed_4
    Big Ed_4 Member Posts: 2,785
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    Yes the greased bearings seem to dry out about twenty years , no danger except for the noise .. You can pop off the pump , cup the motor with your hand to hold in some oil and turn the burner on and the noise would go away .. Buys you a few years ...

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    loudburner
  • loudburner
    loudburner Member Posts: 2
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    Big Ed_4 said:
    Yes the greased bearings seem to dry out about twenty years , no danger except for the noise .. You can pop off the pump , cup the motor with your hand to hold in some oil and turn the burner on and the noise would go away .. Buys you a few years ...
    Thanks much.  It's been working flawlessly since 1997, that and the Weill Mclain boiler.  other than replacing a valve here/there and a circulation pump i have been pleased with the unit.  the burner does sound like a jet engine, something the tech warned us about when installing l..lol

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