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On the hunt for the Blueray oil burner

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Jnawskon
Jnawskon Member Posts: 2
in THE MAIN WALL

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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  • HVACNUT
    HVACNUT Member Posts: 7,426

    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.

    Big Ed_4
  • HydronicMike
    HydronicMike Member Posts: 342

    I think he just likes collecting them.

  • Big Ed_4
    Big Ed_4 Member Posts: 3,529

    You have to rag when Blueray pops up :)

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  • Grallert
    Grallert Member Posts: 1,113

    I've only run across one and replaced it with a Carlin. How deadly actually were they?

    Miss Hall's School service mechanic, greenhouse manager, teacher, dog walker and designated driver

  • EdTheHeaterMan
    EdTheHeaterMan Member Posts: 12,132

    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?

  • PC7060
    PC7060 Member Posts: 1,794
    https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1889898#Comment_1889898

    Huh?

    Grallert
  • HVACNUT
    HVACNUT Member Posts: 7,426
    https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1889895#Comment_1889895

    This much deadly.

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  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 20,155

    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

  • EdTheHeaterMan
    EdTheHeaterMan Member Posts: 12,132
    https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1889919#Comment_1889919

    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?

  • PC7060
    PC7060 Member Posts: 1,794
    https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1889946#Comment_1889946

    I’ve always had him pegged as the Timex watch guy “it takes a licking and keeps on ticking”

  • EdTheHeaterMan
    EdTheHeaterMan Member Posts: 12,132
    https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1889956#Comment_1889956

    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?

    PC7060
  • Big Ed_4
    Big Ed_4 Member Posts: 3,529

    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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  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 20,155
    edited March 1

    @Big Ed_4

    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.

  • HVACNUT
    HVACNUT Member Posts: 7,426
    https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1890060#Comment_1890060

    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.

  • Big Ed_4
    Big Ed_4 Member Posts: 3,529

    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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  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 20,155

    @HVACNUT

    Yes but Blue Ray didn't make their own boilers. They used someone else's boilers.

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