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I've got an old old fired boiler for home heat, made about 20-30 years
ago. It's a Utica. The maintenance page that came with it says to fill
the two oil cups that are on top of the burner motor. I don't see
those.

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O.U. Series Utica boiler with Flamelock burner
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On Jan 9, 9:33*am, wrote:
I've got an old old fired boiler for home heat, made about 20-30 years
ago. It's a Utica. The maintenance page that came with it says to fill
the two oil cups that are on top of the burner motor. I don't see
those.

Thanks.

O.U. Series Utica boiler with Flamelock burner


Some older motors came with small rubber plugs covering the oil holes
for lubricant. I have that type on on a warm air furnace blower motor.
The plugs are not all that obvious, so inspect closely. You may even
find there are only a couple of 1/8" holes on the top of the bearing
housing. HTH

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On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 10:45:23 -0800 (PST), Joe wrote:

On Jan 9, 9:33Â*am, wrote:
I've got an old old fired boiler for home heat, made about 20-30 years
ago. It's a Utica. The maintenance page that came with it says to fill
the two oil cups that are on top of the burner motor. I don't see
those.

Thanks.

O.U. Series Utica boiler with Flamelock burner


Some older motors came with small rubber plugs covering the oil holes
for lubricant. I have that type on on a warm air furnace blower motor.
The plugs are not all that obvious, so inspect closely. You may even
find there are only a couple of 1/8" holes on the top of the bearing
housing. HTH

Joe

Also very possible the burner motor has been replaced and the new
motor has sealed bearings - no oil cups.
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