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Default Pilot light off in summer?


"Unbeliever" wrote in message
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Uncle Peter wrote:
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 20:47:13 -0000, Unbeliever
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Uncle Peter wrote:
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 19:22:37 -0000, Unbeliever
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Uncle Peter wrote:
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 17:35:47 -0000, Bob Eager
wrote:
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015 17:29:09 +0000, Mick wrote:

"Uncle Peter" wrote in message
news Anyone turn the pilot light of their boiler or gas fire off in
summer?

Never had a pilot light!

I'd be interested to know what proportion of new boilers have
them...

I've never had a new boiler. I take it they start with an
electric spark like modern cookers? I've never known a cooker
sparker to wear out, so I guess the boilers don't either?

Well you are not that knowledgeable are you really? Petrol cars
have "sparkers" AKA spark plugs, and if you drive, then you know
that they wear out quite regularly - so why wouldn't those used on
boilers and cookers be any different?

You are a little tinker aren't you with your teasing little
idiocies? It's great to see that you really enjoy being laughed at or
the
butt of many jokes and obscenities.

I'm currently laughing at you, as you don't seem to realise that a
car spark plug operates 1000s of times a minute. Your boiler
doesn't start that many times in a day.

You have yet to realise that the principle is the same and erosion
occurs at the tips of both.

My boiler fires up quite often during the day and the boiler igniter
has been replaced on several occasions due spark erosion at the tip.

Never mind, you'll still be laughed at and be the butt of jokes and
abuse simply because of your idiocies while you still continue to
post as you do.


"Quit often" is probably say thirty times a day. If you drive your
car for half an hour each day, that's 45000 sparks from each plug a
day. So your boiler spark plug should last 1500 times longer than
your car spark plug.


I doubt it old son - I drive a diesel and to the best of my knowledge, the
don't have spark plugs. They do have four glow plugs though, and while
you're spouting inane statistics, I wonder if you could tell me how many
times they fire per cycle of a four stroke engine, per cylinder?



Your heater plugs in your diesel ony work for a few seconds prior to
starting a cold engine.
There is no spark either.
They do not ignite the fuel ****-fer-brains.

Conditions in a car engine and a gas boiler are totally unrelated.