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He must have a dozen Stihl piston and cylinder kits on the shelf thenNothing better than that smug feeling you get when you head to the cupboard,drawer or shelf and get that spare you already have and will get something back running.
It's the same feeling @8ob gets several times a week
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I was vastly disappointed
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I've taken the sensor apart and there looks like a burnt SMT resistor or other similar component (I can't see it it's so,small!) Bin job 
I went out to check the boiler on Sunday and it smelt quite oily, I found the flexy oil pipe was weeping so ordered a new one along with a filter element from Heating Parts Warehouse. They're here already, not the cheapest but good service!.
I went out to check the boiler on Sunday and it smelt quite oily, I found the flexy oil pipe was weeping so ordered a new one along with a filter element from Heating Parts Warehouse. They're here already, not the cheapest but good service!.
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you must have a newer boiler control board than meI've taken the sensor apart and there looks like a burnt SMT resistor or other similar component (I can't see it it's so,small!) Bin job
I went out to check the boiler on Sunday and it smelt quite oily, I found the flexy oil pipe was weeping so ordered a new one along with a filter element from Heating Parts Warehouse. They're here already, not the cheapest but good service!.
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Apparently those metal braided pipes are supposed to be replaced every year or two. The green pipes are something like five years. Our plumber mentioned it last year.I've taken the sensor apart and there looks like a burnt SMT resistor or other similar component (I can't see it it's so,small!) Bin job
I went out to check the boiler on Sunday and it smelt quite oily, I found the flexy oil pipe was weeping so ordered a new one along with a filter element from Heating Parts Warehouse. They're here already, not the cheapest but good service!.
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Same as the filter that looks like it's never been touched! I'll find another boiler man for the next service. I'm tempted to get OFTEC registration and do that as a job instead of being an electrician, seems like easy money servicing and installing oil boilers...
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Sod's effing law!
New oil pump today - 15 days after that post
Firebird - the Trigger's broom of oil boilers.
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Going back many years when I worked for a builders merchant, we sold 3/8 OD soft copper for oil lines & the fittings were generally flare fittings. The flaring tool was the same as the basic ones sold today in MM type places for brake lines but without the little die for doing the double flare.
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I bought some 10mm olives and that seems to have worked. The plumber had installed a short new bit of 10mm pipe between the old pipe and stop valve but had bent it and then just hung the filter off it without supporting it
It got knocked and leaked.
I couldn't get a new filter in time so found my old spare one and installed that. Nipped up the glands and it seems good.
It got knocked and leaked.
I couldn't get a new filter in time so found my old spare one and installed that. Nipped up the glands and it seems good.
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I don't remember exactly what the boiler guy said but it was something along the lines of the suppliers being allowed (or ordered?) to put 10% biofuel into the heating oil.
Apparently it destroys the hoses and you need the green hoses now for resistance to it?
Apparently it destroys the hoses and you need the green hoses now for resistance to it?
