On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 21:10:29 GMT, "Pete C."
wrote:



CO deaths are a result of poor combustion adjustment combined with flue
leakage, both of which have a higher probability with a gas furnace due
to:

1) People believing that a gas furnace does not require annual
inspections / service. This creates a greater probability of the furnace
falling into disrepair and the poor adjustment and leakage forming.


And the average Oil burner in a home that is not serviced properly is
JUST as dangerous.

No disrespect intended, Pete.

This whole thread seams to be diminishing the attention due to oil
burning equipment.

A delayed ignition that has not left the confines of the combustion
chamber may not be an explosion according to some, however it is an
unplanned event.

What you learn in a classroom is fine. It prepares you to go into the
field. Once you've been in the field for 3-4 years, you realize just
how little you knew that first year.

Many things go wrong with oil burners. YOU may know to stop resetting
your protectorelay after the third time, however most DO look at it
like an elevator button.

Most are filthy. Just have a fly on the wall look-see at most HVAC
shops and watch the service techs try to casually avoid the oil
service calls.

Oh, by the way, standing in front of a 750 HP boiler (30,131,000
btu's per hour./ 215 gal. per hour) while it huffs itself out for .5
seconds, and then back into high fire with out shutting off the main
fuel valve will forever makeup ones mind on weather or not an oil
burner can or cannot explode.


-zero



Pete C.