This is on behalf on an elderely friend, who has one of these that is
suffering from 'i'm dead with a lockout'.

Resetting doesn't fix it, and a bit-of-cowboy plumber looked at it and
pronounced the igniter dead, and the pump leaking and suggested a whole
new burner assembly.


He claimed the oil from a leaking pump had dripped on the igniter
transformer and shorted it. Oil is however an insulator.

He also claimed it hadn't been serviced for years (it had).

Certainly there was no sound of sparking although the pump did spin up.

Anyone got any useful advice to offer in terms of what may have gone,
what it should cost to get it fixed and where to get parts if local
plumbers do a teeth suck and start talking silly money? Or 'cant get the
parts for that mate: You needs a new boiler'

Heat exchanger looks OK ish.



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You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a
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