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Posted by Steve Scott on February 12, 2007, 7:47 am
There is one thing that's a bit unique with the Blue Angel burner.
They have a cast end cone that is adjustable. I've only found the
instructions for the dang thing in the burner installation
instructions. Not on any burner setup info. Every one I've seen has
been left the way it came from the factory with way too much secondary
air. That is air that moves between the end cone and retention head.
They can generally be made to run decently. We have a few out there
but they can be a PITA. Much prefer a Riello.
FWIW, a perfectly clean unit can soot up in about 2 days. Ask me how
I know. :)
I have to ask, why do you have a return? If you REALLY need one a
Tiger Loop is a better approach.
wrote:
>Being a home moaner in the same house for 36 years gives me some experience
>in my heating system.
>
>Becoming a cheap fuck is the way I look to some, but the only reason I mess
>with my oil burner and boiler is because for the past 36 years I have had
>many service companies (yes they were all oil dealers) service my system.
>Each and every guy that came to my house thought a lot of himself and his
>abilities, but turned out to be just another useless lazy fuck.
>
>I guess had bad luck all those years?
>
>Anyhow, I have to buy oil from an oil dealer. I prefer not to buy from a
>"COD" dealer. I get a service contract from each and every dealer I have
>bought oil from. Some contracts were free, some I paid for. They were
>necessary because I used to be out of town a lot and wanted my family to be
>able to get the system fixed quickly if something broke down.
>
>For the past 10 years I have been in the office. I keep service contracts
>for just emergency service and parts if something breaks down early am or
>weekends.
>
>I have replaced the combustion chamber (wet pack chamber in my '86 Weil
>McLain 4 section P68V 5 years ago. the service company wanted 700 bucks. I
>bought the kit at Blackman for 32 bucks and put it in in about an 1 1/2 to 2
>hours. No hinge on the old boiler front plate like the newer Gold series.
>The burner was a Wayne Blue Angel HS.
>none of the dealer's service guys apparently knew how to set it up to burn
>clean and always bitched about it. I assumed they were cleaning the boilers
>heat exchangers on each annual service. Yeah, right. Last December, the
>service guy came and said the Wayne was a piece of garbage and I should
>replace it with a better burner. He admitted that nobody was familiar with
>setting it up. To me it looks like it only has 1 extra adjustment ( the air
>baffle ). He replaced the nozzle and electrodes, said he cleaned the boiler
>again. 2 weeks later something happened again. I opened the peep hole to
>look and a blast of soot and flame shot out. Chimney clog? No way; the
>boiler was plugged almost solid.
>I took the top off, saw WTF!!! I bought a soot saber and the correct brush.
>The soot saber was necessary to bust through all that shit. You COULD NOT
>SEE the cast iron!
> I took out 2 or 3 quarts of shit from the boiler.
>
>I figured if these guys can't work on a Blue angel, I'll get something they
>should all know, a Becket AFG. Yeah, cheap fuck Bob put it in himself,
>bought it at Blackman for just under 280 bucks or so, complete (it was not a
>package) with the frame, air tube, nozzle and whatever. Bought new smoke
>pipe and damper. Set it all up by eye (guess I should have spent a grand on
>a Bacharach combustion analyzer too). and It ran so sweetly. Still does.
>
>I hired another company, got the system into pristine shape, asked them to
>start out with an inspection and tune up. The guy had no combustion analyzer
>other than his eyeballs. Said it looked good. I yawned when he said he would
>come back. He never did. Never needed to yet.
>The smokepipe is still clean inside. I never want to clean another boiler
>again, so from now on I'll have to watch the tech like a hawk. I hate that,
>cause I never liked to be watched that way when I was a tech in my job. Just
>not comfortable.
>
>I've said enough on this and won't even get into why I put in the oil return
>line to my tank.
>
>Yeah, the Holiday Inn express is a good commercial.
>
>No, I don't think I am smart at all; just not a lazy fuck either. I guess I
>deserved everything above? Bubba, any comments?
>
>Bob
>
>
>
>>
>>> This is true only if you have the second line (return line) that is used
>>> in a 2 pipe system that returns the fuel oil back to your tank.
>>> Otherwise, without that plug he installed, the fuel oil that does not go
>>> though the nozzle into the combustion chamber just dumps over the pump's
>>> relief valve and circulates in the pump.
>>>
>>> Stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night.
>>
>> That Holiday Inn Express thing is mighty impressive, DIMwit! :-)
>>
>> -zero
>>
>>>
>>> Bob
>>
>>>> My burner service guy removed the pump on my Beckett head and screwed
>>>> in a small set screw. He said that this would make the pump return
>>>> the fuel back to the tank and that without this set screw the pump
>>>> wouldn't return the fuel. Does this sound right?
>>>
>>
>>
>
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