Can anyone reccommend a boiler repair fella in the South manchester
area pls?

My glowworm spacresaver F has givenup.
Its not the fan(my suspision is the pressure switch).
Ta.
Pls email me if you know of someone who's not going to rip me
off.....or know of some cowboys for me to avoid.

"Carl" wrote in message
om...
Can anyone reccommend a boiler repair fella in the South manchester
area pls?

My glowworm spacresaver F has givenup.
Its not the fan(my suspision is the pressure switch).
Ta.
Pls email me if you know of someone who's not going to rip me
off.....or know of some cowboys for me to avoid.

Have you considered D-I-Y? You should be able to get a new pressure switch -
if that's what it is.

In order to verify this, you could try wiring a manual switch in parallel
with the pressure switch. When the fan starts up but the boiler doesn't fire
(I presume that's the symptom?) flick your manual switch on. If the boiler
then fires ok, this indicates that it *is* the pressure switch at fault -
provided that the fan's shifting a reasonable amount of air, of course.

[I'm sure that some will frown on this approach - but it's what I would do
if it were mine].

Roger

Roger Mills wrote:
"Carl" wrote in message
om...
Can anyone reccommend a boiler repair fella in the South manchester
area pls?

My glowworm spacresaver F has givenup.
Its not the fan(my suspision is the pressure switch).
Ta.
Pls email me if you know of someone who's not going to rip me
off.....or know of some cowboys for me to avoid.

Have you considered D-I-Y? You should be able to get a new pressure
switch - if that's what it is.

In order to verify this, you could try wiring a manual switch in
parallel with the pressure switch. When the fan starts up but the
boiler doesn't fire (I presume that's the symptom?) flick your manual
switch on. If the boiler then fires ok, this indicates that it *is*
the pressure switch at fault - provided that the fan's shifting a
reasonable amount of air, of course.

[I'm sure that some will frown on this approach - but it's what I
would do if it were mine].

Roger

The pressure switch is often fed by plastic tube which get ruptured.
I've test switches by sucking on the tube.

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 14:48:37 +0000, Roger Mills wrote:


"Carl" wrote in message
om...
Can anyone reccommend a boiler repair fella in the South manchester
area pls?

My glowworm spacresaver F has givenup.
Its not the fan(my suspision is the pressure switch).
Ta.
Pls email me if you know of someone who's not going to rip me
off.....or know of some cowboys for me to avoid.

Have you considered D-I-Y? You should be able to get a new pressure switch -
if that's what it is.

In order to verify this, you could try wiring a manual switch in parallel
with the pressure switch. When the fan starts up but the boiler doesn't fire
(I presume that's the symptom?) flick your manual switch on. If the boiler
then fires ok, this indicates that it *is* the pressure switch at fault -
provided that the fan's shifting a reasonable amount of air, of course.

[I'm sure that some will frown on this approach - but it's what I would do
if it were mine].

Lo and behold I frown!
You will effectively connect the wires on the
seperate poles of the APS together there is no guarantee that this is a
harmless thing to do from the perspective of the control circuits.

At least as likely as the APS itself are the sensing tubes and there
inlets.


--
Ed Sirett - Property maintainer and registered gas fitter.
The FAQ for uk.diy is at www.diyfaq.org.uk
Gas fitting FAQ http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/GasFitting.html
Sealed CH FAQ http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/SealedCH.html

In message , Roger Mills
writes

"Carl" wrote in message
. com...
Can anyone reccommend a boiler repair fella in the South manchester
area pls?

My glowworm spacresaver F has givenup.
Its not the fan(my suspision is the pressure switch).
Ta.
Pls email me if you know of someone who's not going to rip me
off.....or know of some cowboys for me to avoid.

Have you considered D-I-Y? You should be able to get a new pressure switch -
if that's what it is.

In order to verify this, you could try wiring a manual switch in parallel
with the pressure switch. When the fan starts up but the boiler doesn't fire
(I presume that's the symptom?) flick your manual switch on. If the boiler
then fires ok, this indicates that it *is* the pressure switch at fault -
provided that the fan's shifting a reasonable amount of air, of course.

[I'm sure that some will frown on this approach - but it's what I would do
if it were mine].

Well, that would potentially have the common connected to the normally
closed and normally open connections simultaneously if the membrane has
ruptured. I'm not quite sure whether this might blow something on the
pcb.


How to test an air pressure switch:

with the power to the boiler off, remove the air pressure switch
connector on the pcb. It is a 4 pin molex connector on the fuelsaver,
with 3 wires coming out. You should be able to check which is the
normally closed, common and normally open from looking for the
corresponding colour wires on the microswitch on the APS. Using a
multimeter (checking the lead resistance by touching them together),
look for less than an ohm resistance between the normally closed and
common on the molex connector. (Doing it this way will also check out
the wiring to the APs as well as the pressure switch itself).
The aps body should have one or two rubber hoses connected to it. Pull
the other end of the tube off so you can activate the APS by sucking or
blowing. Depending on which tube, either suck or blow GENTLY to activate
the microswitch and test the common to normally open contacts on the
molex connector, again this should be less than an ohm.

Job done

Lastly check that the tubes to the APS aren't blocked
--
geoff