Bleedin' typical

Oct 04, 2013 13 Replies
C

I've been converting the gravity HW system over to pumped. Not been a difficult job, but awkward at times. And of course it sprouted extra tasks like a new feed and expansion tank (Polyred packaged tank - handy bit of kit) and a new incoming mains stopcock.



Finaly get it refilled and ready get it going again and the bloody boiler (which was fine 2 weeks ago) decides not to fire up (sparking, but not lighting) :-(



Oh well it's a nice simple Ideal Mexico, so hopefully all it wants is a bit of a clean or something )


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T

You didn't turn the gas off by any chance? ;-)

Tim

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F

I thought the Ideal Mexico was of the vintage variety using a permanent pilot and thermocouple.

No pilot implies you've turned the gas off somewhere, or possibly a blocked jet, or the spark isn't close enough to ignite a flame.

Can you use a match on a long wire, and check if there is anything being emitted from the pilot assembly by trying to "blow" the match flame?

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J

or worse, plumb it into a water pipe ;-)

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C

This is a new fangled model from circa 2002, it has a pilot ignited by a spark.

I'm going to have a look at it over the weekend.

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M

En el artículo , John Rumm escribió:

my so-called heating engineer managed that during a boiler change. Had to take the gas meter out and empty it of water...

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D

Will he have fracked it then?

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J

Well to be fair, even the ancient models had that - kind of. The permanent pilot light was lit by a piezo spark igniter, when you pushed the button! ;-)

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R

On mine, there's a cutout that can be reset by pressing a button which doesn't look like a button on a small brown disk.

-- Richard

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C

No chance of that , since it turns out there is no gas c*ck on the boiler supply pipe anyway

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In message , Richard Tobin writes

Well, it looks like it was a dirty/blocked pilot jet.

Works fine now.

Cheers folks

Now, where is the rad bleed key that I had earlier today.....

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