tools required for oil boiler servicing?

[BenC]

hopeing to do oftec soon so i can start servicing boilers, just wondering what tools im likely to need and what are the best ones to have, i.e what are the best flue gas analyzers to have.

 

[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.