How a Fuel Oil Burner Works and Troubleshooting a Failure - ElementalMaker

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Published 2020-04-09
Fixing an issue with my Beckett AFG oil burner and walking through the troubleshooting process.
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All Comments (21)
  • @ElementalMaker
    Thanks for watching! If you would like to support this channel please head to www.patreon.com/elementalmaker. Every patron gets a virtual hug and my unending appreciation. I will also build a small shrine to worship you. One of these is a lie.
  • @Enjoymentboy
    I always appreciate watching someone apply logic and methodology when troubleshooting. Great work.
  • Gloves, moving Hydrocarbons away from the sparking thing, general not getting dead from fire... Is Prudence in the shop? Carefulling.
  • @CP-od7tr
    This is the best DIY repair video I have ever seen! Concise, step by step, and logical! Explains why to check each item. Dude you have found your calling. Find other household items to repair. Boost your subs? Better yet add a channel. Don't get me wrong, keep doing the original stuff as well. We love it! Screaming gummy bears! LOL!!!
  • And the tiddy on the bench😝 BTW, that Grolsch beer bottles work amazingly for home brews, I currently have apple cider and a sugar wash thats amost ready for distallation.
  • I have watched this Video lots before Mr Brilliant EM. I love fixing this sort of gas burner kit too. The reason why I've commented, is because your Doggie is Bloody Fuc#iing gorgeous. Dogs are the Bloody best. We Couldn't of Evolved or Survived without them.
  • @pfow2006
    Pretty much the same thing as the boiler on a hydrovac, I have had the same failure from a faulty thermostat. Cool to watch you diagnose it, the more failure scenarios a person experiences the better a person understands them and the easier they become to diagnose. Thanks for the video.
  • @SuperWhizy
    Thanks for sharing and allowing us to live vicariously through your success.
  • @DCFusor
    A hot air gun (or hair dryer) and a can of freeze spray are super useful to have around when troubleshooting intermittent failures. Things that might only fail rarely and be hard to find can be made to work and fail quickly so you can get it done a lot faster with less frustration - I learned that while on commission as a repairman long ago. For electronic gear, just the radiated heat from a soldering iron would often do - and a point source of temperature change can often narrow down the fault helpfully.
  • @kiykiy_maitai
    Nice, I guessed correctly about 4 minutes in after you displayed all of the symptoms. I work in industrial maintenance / automation controls for a large factory. At the 4 minute mark I called fuel shutting off intermittently, either solenoid bad or control system fault causing solenoid to turn off. Glad you figured it out!
  • @caveman6345
    Sorry I haven't been watching the videos as of late, I've been"offline" due to lack of funds but I'm back for an unknown amount of time. Good stuff.
  • @paulEG6
    It’s always nice when it’s a cheap and easy fix!
  • @ghostshadow9046
    in Alaska they stopped adding dye to heating oil due to the dye causing issues with several brands of oil fired heaters.
  • @Dave32488
    Been waiting and expecting some videos from ya man!! Love learning from your channel! Mu wife is always on to me over all my elemental experimentation lol
  • @ChozoSR388
    Always great when it's a cheap fix! Glad you were able to get it working again. I've been there; I know it's not fun lol