On the hunt for the Blueray oil burner
I’ve been collecting burners over the years and just learned about the history attached to the blueray burner. Anybody got one for sale or trade?
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They were an abomination. The cause of many CO deaths. Why would you want one? I doubt there's any originals left. Most had the Venturi tube removed and was then set up as a regular Carlin 99.
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I think he just likes collecting them.
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You have to rag when Blueray pops up :)
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I've only run across one and replaced it with a Carlin. How deadly actually were they?
Miss Hall's School service mechanic, greenhouse teacher, dog walker and designated driver
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I know that John Cameron Swazye is dead!
Edward Young Retired
After you make that expensive repair and you still have the same problem, What will you check next?
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Huh?
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I worked on a few of them My boss at the oil company put one in his house in West Hartford. When he retired and I went into my own business he gave me a really good deal on a truck and some tools. I found out why.
But there was one catch. He had a Weil McLain boiler delivered to his house and I had to install it for free and remove the Blue Ray. That was 1986 I think.
His was like many others, very touchy. It seldom ran a full year he usually had it serviced twice a year. Some were constant problems
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John Cameron Swazye was a news caster from the 1960s that was a spokesman for BlueRay in the 1980s
When you have to explain a joke it loses its punch.
Edward Young Retired
After you make that expensive repair and you still have the same problem, What will you check next?
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I’ve always had him pegged as the Timex watch guy “it takes a licking and keeps on ticking”
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Well he stopped ticking in 1995 after all those BlueRay recalls closed the company. I wonder if there is a connection?
Edward Young Retired
After you make that expensive repair and you still have the same problem, What will you check next?
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The burner was so low quality for that type of burn .. Had a helix switch stuck in the vent connected to FF .. I may be wrong did they use the CC Heago nozzle … I Spent many nights cleaning BlueRays ..
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I worked with a lady years ago who if someone didn't get her joke or snarky remark, she'd say, "I don't chew my tobacco twice." and leave it at that.
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I guess the cad cell eye couldn't see blue so they had the heat sensor.
They did use some type of strange nozzle, but I don't remember what it was.
I forget who made the boilers but they were decent steel boilers. Maybe Thermodynamics. Never sold any of the Blue Ray furnaces I thought they were junk.
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Yeah, no cad cell eye. Honeywell pyrostat.
Monarch .75 70° CC. With matching "Air Metering Plate".
The company was Blueray Systems Inc. Not affiliated with TD. There's a development in Medford on Long Island called Eagle Estates. They had a lot of Blueray furnaces but I can't remember too much about them.
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The flame ring would warp and the nice flame was lost . The bad oil tank practice of the past did not help either .. It was a crush tube boiler and you find the baffles stashed behind the boiler … We throw away any efficiency just to keep them running.
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Yes but Blue Ray didn't make their own boilers. They used someone else's boilers.
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