On Thu, 06 Apr 2006 23:24:12 GMT, Bubba ReMoVe
wrote:

On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 06:10:38 GMT, Doug
wrote:

On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 20:38:12 GMT, Bubba ReMoVe
wrote:

On 3 Apr 2006 04:09:36 -0700, "homeguy" wrote:

I have a Beckett head on a Bock Hot water heater. The heater was
shutting off and cavitating (pulsating). I changed the pump and nozzle
and the pulsating went away. However, the burner still shuts off and
trips the breaker on the controls. I've replaced the light sensor,
transformer, controls and checked the gap on the electrodes.
Everything looked fine. I'm wondering if the aquastat could be causing
the burner not to light at times. When I press the breaker button the
burner heats the ho****er to temp. Then for some reason, over night it
pops the breaker on the control. ALso, the boiler is on the same line
and it rund and shuts off fine. Any suggestions?

You haven't quite replaced enough parts yet. Keep trying. Once you
change them all, you'll find out that you still don't have a freaking
clue on proper combustion of an oil burner. Hopefully, we wont read
about you in the obituaries.
Bubba

Humm,
Perhaps I should discuss the time when I was out of the country on a
job, my furnace shut down and a relative called a pro to service it?
Two days after the "pro" serviced it, the burner puffed back so hard
it blew the stack pipe off, filling the house with enough soot to
cause an $18K insurance claim?

Or the time when I visited a neighbor hours after a pro serviced her
burner, only to find fuel oil spraying all over her basement floor?

Or the time techs from my local gas company replaced the delayed start
main gas valve on a furnace in one of my rental houses with an instant
start value? The flame roll out was indeed impressive.

etc, etc, etc

I've been installing and servicing heating equipment in my properties
for 31 years and have yet to endanger anyone.

My point is that are poor professional techs and good amateurs and
vice versa. Automatically giving someone such useless advise as the
above is pointless.

Doug



All you have explained is that you and your neighbor dont shop for a
professionally trained licensed HVAC tech too well.
As far as your local gas company goes, Id just as soon have hired my
12 yr old neighbor.
Would you let "just anyone" baby sit your newborn and sibling
children? Of course not. You would check many many references before
hiring out that task to such precious "cargo".
So WHY OH WHY would you not do the same amount of investigating into
searching for a professional HVAC company? You are trusting someone
with your life and the lifes of those in your home to someone that can
burn your house down or fill your house with soot and carbon monoxide
in a very very short time.
Next time, do your homework a little better. Its obvious that you and
your neighbor didnt.
Bubba

Humm, another trite useless answer...
Oh well, I shouldn't expect more...

BTW, the guys mentioned above were licensed with good references, at
least in terms of how much can be checked out on a weekend with no
heat.

I've had so many bad experiences that I ALWAYS do my own work unless
I'm out of town and a tenant has no heat or it's a weekend and I can't
get a part. In any event, under no heat conditions in New England, one
can not spend a day or two checking references, especially if the
tenant has complained to housing code enforcement. Heat has to be
restored NOW!

I just made one exception because it was a warranty job. This past
week I had a well known company replace a boiler core this past week.
I've used them several times with good results.
And yes, they have many references.

This time their techs broke a sump pump adjacent to the boiler,
installed the safety relief valve drain tube so that it dumps its
output on TOP of the boiler and failed to reinstall the draft diverter
in the smoke pipe (it was left hanging ajar on one screw).
Those were the mistakes I found in the first 3 minutes of my follow up
inspection.

Maybe you get better help in your area?

Pardon my cynicism but it's based upon unfortunate experience.

Doug