a storm blew out pilot light on my water heater. It would not light again.
I knew the cause was that there is a pinhole to set air-fuel ratio and it
can become clogged. So unscrewed a few things to remove the pinhole and
dipped it in metho. Put everything back, pressed the piezo igniter and
hooray, flame appears.
Unfortunately, I only got 90 seconds of hot water, then main flame
goes out. So I had to call repairman from the company that sells my brand
of heater. And the problem was that I had to unclamp the overheating sensor
to remove the pilot light, and I put it back a few mm too high. So
poor little sensor tells gas to shut off.

One seems to have shot oneself in the foot financially then.
Brian

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a storm blew out pilot light on my water heater. It would not light again.
I knew the cause was that there is a pinhole to set air-fuel ratio and it
can become clogged. So unscrewed a few things to remove the pinhole and
dipped it in metho. Put everything back, pressed the piezo igniter and
hooray, flame appears.
Unfortunately, I only got 90 seconds of hot water, then main flame
goes out. So I had to call repairman from the company that sells my brand
of heater. And the problem was that I had to unclamp the overheating
sensor
to remove the pilot light, and I put it back a few mm too high. So
poor little sensor tells gas to shut off.

On Saturday, 29 July 2017 02:54:28 UTC+1, wrote:
a storm blew out pilot light on my water heater. It would not light again.

Don't think of it as money paid to fix the heater, think of it as money paid to learn how to do the job properly yourself so you won't have that problem next time.

Owain

On 29/07/2017 02:54, wrote:
a storm blew out pilot light on my water heater. It would not light again.
I knew the cause was that there is a pinhole to set air-fuel ratio and it
can become clogged. So unscrewed a few things to remove the pinhole and
dipped it in metho. Put everything back, pressed the piezo igniter and
hooray, flame appears.
Unfortunately, I only got 90 seconds of hot water, then main flame
goes out. So I had to call repairman from the company that sells my brand
of heater. And the problem was that I had to unclamp the overheating sensor
to remove the pilot light, and I put it back a few mm too high. So
poor little sensor tells gas to shut off.


Next time when tackling a new job take digital photos before you start
and as you go along. It's not a guarantee but when it comes to "I think
it went there" a photo's better than most memories.

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Robin
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On 29/07/2017 10:54, Robin wrote:
Next time when tackling a new job take digital photos before you start
and as you go along. It's not a guarantee but when it comes to "I think
it went there" a photo's better than most memories.

+1

On Saturday, 29 July 2017 16:03:14 UTC+1, ss wrote:
On 29/07/2017 10:54, Robin wrote:
Next time when tackling a new job take digital photos before you start
and as you go along. It's not a guarantee but when it comes to "I think
it went there" a photo's better than most memories.

+1

I tried that with a film camera once, rather than tracing the (experimental) circuit out. The resulting picture was hopeless, much of it too dark to see anything. By then I'd taken it apart, when I saw the photo I was certainly not reassured. I worked out what bits needed to go where though & had it all working fine afterwards. Digicams are so much better, you can see instantly what info you do & don't have in the picture.


NT

On 29/07/2017 18:28, wrote:
On Saturday, 29 July 2017 16:03:14 UTC+1, ss wrote:
On 29/07/2017 10:54, Robin wrote:
Next time when tackling a new job take digital photos before you start
and as you go along. It's not a guarantee but when it comes to "I think
it went there" a photo's better than most memories.

+1

I tried that with a film camera once, rather than tracing the (experimental) circuit out. The resulting picture was hopeless, much of it too dark to see anything. By then I'd taken it apart, when I saw the photo I was certainly not reassured. I worked out what bits needed to go where though & had it all working fine afterwards. Digicams are so much better, you can see instantly what info you do & don't have in the picture.


NT


Shh! You will wake whiskey dave.

In article ,
ss writes:
On 29/07/2017 10:54, Robin wrote:
Next time when tackling a new job take digital photos before you start
and as you go along. It's not a guarantee but when it comes to "I think
it went there" a photo's better than most memories.

+1

Did this when I was redoing a valley gutter between two roofs which
were a different height. That wasn't the original reason I took the
pictures, but it came in very handy when working out how the tiles
went back on again.

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Andrew Gabriel
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