tools required for oil boiler servicing?

[SimonJohns]

More to a service than the boiler/burner alone.

Agreed BUT. The op asked about just servicing the boiler

I'm just tryin to assist with the original question




---
- Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[SimonG]

....and like I said there's more to an oil boiler service than just the boiler/burner itself. The manufacturers courses will deal with specific boilers and burners, but won't cover oil storage or oil supply. I would hate to think the op serviced a boiler based on a manufacturers course to be landed with a massive bill because he wasn't aware that it was his responsibilty to look at these items as well and didn't see the leaking oil line or split tank or that the split tank was a single skin tank sat on a drain.

 

[Bones]

Boys boys, calm down!

I just need to get the main tools required for now.

I have done the whole course and passed so i can do servicing & commissioning, installation of the tanks and pipelines, and vaporising appliances!!

 

[SimonG]

Boys boys, calm down!

I just need to get the main tools required for now.

I have done the whole course and passed so i can do servicing & commissioning, installation of the tanks and pipelines, and vaporising appliances!!

Congratulations, now the fun begins.

 

[annie125]

ya its a good tool it make our work more easier.

 

[Bones]

ya its a good tool it make our work more easier.

Whats a good tool?

 

[PlumbBobBob]

go on annie125 spill the beans

 

[tommydog]

i have a 200 psi air compressor gauge on the end of a hydraulic 1/4 hose about 40cm long with a 1/8 BSP male thread and a 1/8 to 1/4 BSP adapter for testing fuel pressure (£12). i use it on every job and find that fuel filter and nozzle relacements are the basics before the analyzers come out.... so important i keep an extra gauge in the van incase it fails !

 

[lance]

also..13mm long reach socket and some others..
11mm rat sh%it ring
reillo fan puller
long nose pliers
molies

 

[dontknowitall]

I used a pair of stilsons today to remove a blast tube.

 

[lance]

Was it on a minor4?

 

[dontknowitall]

How did you guess!!!!?

190/240 - do you by any chance know what size nozzle it should be? I can't read the old one (which I put in!)

 

[WHPES]

Forget the Riello fan puller - just get one of those long reach micro bearing pullers and it will pull off motor bearings too. Alternatively a winscreeen wiper puller will take off Riello fans.

How about putting this thread as a sticky as the question keeps coming up?

 

[Dannypipe]

Just reading this thread with interest as I'm about to join the ranks of you greasy oil engineers. (well at the end of the month I am).

Noticed Croppie (where's he gone) mentioned a solenoid tester. Looked it up. Looks like a standard 'volt stick'.

Is it? Ta for any help. Danny.

 

[Dannypipe]

http://www.voltstick.co.uk/images/pdfs/voltstickShortform.pdf

seems there might be a difference. Interested to hear views. Sadly may be only croppie who has one, and he no longer seems to come on here.

 

[dontknowitall]

Solenoid tester = screwdriver

This is a rough and ready test to see if it magnestizes against your screwdriver. (There's a proper voltage test too but I'm afraid I can't be bothered to go out to the van and look the values up in my book.)

 

[Dannypipe]

What after you made my wife leave me.....go and look them up now. 😉

Doesn't matter, rough and ready suits me. I'm looking forward to the course, hoping I'll learn a bit.

I've seviced and installed in the past (got an Oftec guy to commision always). I think its time I registered despite it not being mandatory at the moment. Not cheap though.

 

[Lou]

I am updating threads. If this is not current then please visit the Oil & Solid Fuel Forum and post a new thread.