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Disparate Dan
Hello, virgin-poster (please be gentle with me)
Stupidly allowed my oil tank to run dry (again
).
Last time, it cost me £140 for a professional boiler guy to restart the boiler.
I know that all he did was bleed the oil-pipe and I have done this successfully, myself, but that was a different boiler.
I've no objection to anyone earning a wage, but I'm currently unemployed and simply haven't got any money at the moment (and it's perishing, here).
I've attached a couple of photo's of my current boiler for if someone would be kind enough to tell me where the bleed point(s) is/are or offer any other advice.
The black, flexible-pipe in the pictures, is the oil-feed pipe and the fuel is "Premium Kero 28" according to the delivery slip.
On this particular model, I have located a black allen nut (you can see it having been loosened on the close-up picture. It is just above the black flexible oil-pipe on the left-hand side).
Just to the right of that, there is another nut which requires a flat-head screwdriver and I've loosened that, also (oddly, this nut/screw is set - as default - to be flush with the surrounding case but, when tightened, will actually "counter-sink" itself to about a third of it's length). Each of these nuts have a film of heating oil on their inner tips/threads when they are removed, so I'm hopeful that I'm "on the right track".
When I loosen them, though, there is no sound of air escaping or any oil coming out. I even left them open for over an hour and periodically pressed the reset button - hoping that that might draw the oil/air through the pipe - but no joy at all.
Thanks very much for taking the time to read this.
Stupidly allowed my oil tank to run dry (again
Last time, it cost me £140 for a professional boiler guy to restart the boiler.
I know that all he did was bleed the oil-pipe and I have done this successfully, myself, but that was a different boiler.
I've no objection to anyone earning a wage, but I'm currently unemployed and simply haven't got any money at the moment (and it's perishing, here).
I've attached a couple of photo's of my current boiler for if someone would be kind enough to tell me where the bleed point(s) is/are or offer any other advice.
The black, flexible-pipe in the pictures, is the oil-feed pipe and the fuel is "Premium Kero 28" according to the delivery slip.
On this particular model, I have located a black allen nut (you can see it having been loosened on the close-up picture. It is just above the black flexible oil-pipe on the left-hand side).
Just to the right of that, there is another nut which requires a flat-head screwdriver and I've loosened that, also (oddly, this nut/screw is set - as default - to be flush with the surrounding case but, when tightened, will actually "counter-sink" itself to about a third of it's length). Each of these nuts have a film of heating oil on their inner tips/threads when they are removed, so I'm hopeful that I'm "on the right track".
When I loosen them, though, there is no sound of air escaping or any oil coming out. I even left them open for over an hour and periodically pressed the reset button - hoping that that might draw the oil/air through the pipe - but no joy at all.
Thanks very much for taking the time to read this.