Logic316 wrote:
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If it was working right it wouldn't be. you either have
excess soot, or excess unburned oil, and neither is good. A well
tuned oil fired boiler burns CLEAN.

There's always been a significant amount of soot that needed to be
cleaned out, even when I had the oil company guys work on it. There
was actually LESS soot in the boiler after I had adjusted it last
year, but for some reason the flame doesn't look the same this time
around and I'm not sure what I missed.


The only problem is, I'm
not sure how to properly adjust the ignition electrodes. I just
vacuumed out

You don't touch them. You have neither the tools nor the
knowhow.

Then tell me what special tools and info I need, if you're so smart.
I don't have an exhaust gas meter, if that's what you're hinting at,
but none of the oil company technicians I've seen use those either
(and I've had it serviced by different companies). They all adjusted
everything strictly by eye. This can't be rocket science.


The problem is that even when I open the air
intake band all the way, the flame is still long, red and smoky. I
tried another new fuel nozzle with the same results, so I'm pretty
sure that the nozzle isn't clogged up.

I dunno - throw a few more nozzles at it and see what happens.
Try some different ones. Whatever Home Depot has in stock that day
will do.

I used the exact same type of nozzle that the technicians from the oil
company put on there. And I get my parts from local heating and
plumbing supply distributors, and shop at family-owned hardware
stores, not Home Depot, you wiseass.


Call someone who knows WTF they're doing. PAY them to come do it.

**** off. I got it right last year. You're just jealous because
somebody out there isn't giving you any work. Well pity party for
you, boo ****ing hoo....

- Logic316

"Give a man fire and he's warm for a while. Set a man on fire and he's
warm for the rest of his life."

Seems like you [Logic316] need to set YOURSELF on fire!

--
Zyp