You can only find his videos relaxing if you've never been standing out in bad weather waving a flashlight so the oil serviceman locates you in the dark. Heating the house is the secondary purpose of an oil burner. Its primary purpose is to provide the oil repairman with a comfortable living.
Love the old pancake boilers. Easy to service. I see them in Minnesota all the time. Most of them are natural gas. 100+ years old and still choochin. About 60% efficiency. Yeeha!
This guy "I should have one on the truck" this mans stock is next level, its ashame that he doesn't have an apprentice with him this guy you wanna learn from
It always amazing how technology improves over time and how much smaller the replacement motor is over the one you just removed. Why do you wear gloves? LOL I still see people posting that question. Here's a new answer for you Steve. Why do I wear gloves? You get down here on your knees and do what I tell you to do and we'll see why I wear gloves. Nice job Steve.
A little sand cloth and KROIL., on the blower wheel, comes right off. KROIL you can get at United Refrigeration. Use it all the time for sticky shafts. Good vid.
50/50 ATF/Acetone is better than Kroil...I've used it for 30 years. Tested it(and a couple of others) alongside with a torque wrench on some rusted up marine fittings. Kroil was 2nd and IIRC PBB was 3rd or 4th along with older "Liquid Wrench".
That’s a really cool coal fired steam boiler from the teens or 20’s. Those are a piece of history and should be preserved. Do you remember if there was another coal fired boiler in the newer ones place or was the steam boiler the only one?
Will Butter I know, If that beast could talk, stories for days..... Right before it cleaned your wallet out to make it heat a house for a winter, and then shortened your life span. 😆
Always amazes me how people neglect to service their units and then all of a sudden 'I need you here today!'. Can't even wait the until the weekday. Oh well, extra money.
Steve, not being funny but with both the boiler and pipe work lagged in crumbling asbestos I hope you wore a p3 respirator mask. I 've seen a couple of good people die of mesothelioma from asbestos exposure and it's a truly cruel way to go. It's easy to be casual about asbestos as it takes years for it to show so it easy to forget that it's doing damage. Up until recently I like you would have and indeed have worked next to asbestos like that with no mask but seeing someone dieing in agony from just this sort of indirect exposure changed my point of view.
@@MrPaul1f Not only asbestos, saw dust, dust from sand, metal fumes welding and soldering, stain varnish paint rubber cement. I'd honestly probably wear atleast a good dust mask doing any work in a basement. Even if none preset on pipes, could be dust lingering.
The reason they don't make things like they used to (equipment that lasted the test of time) is because they need us to continue to work and stay busy and make money and spend money (worker bees). They way they changed the stuff that lasted into the throwaway stuff we use now, is by a scam we are all familiar with called (Environmental protection). I'll be the first to say we all should be conscious of the home that we live on but come on guys, wake up. They have dumbed down and pussified the generations that now live on this earth into little sniveling, crying babies that need safe spaces from words that others speak that don't agree with their beliefs. Awake oh sleeper and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee life. Think about those words for a moment.
man these pocket vintage draftrite gauge were hard to find in the 90's,i think today you can buy them online but there was a time when these were rare.
A real beast. I like all of the stove cement smeared all over it. Think how many brutal northeast winters it fought off. It's just nicely broken in now.
Great vids! Moved in dreading the idea of oil heat but now I love it.This unit could be mine, not serviced by previous owner in at least three years but works fine. Separate h/w burner too, love it. Anyone in the Danbury/NY state line area you'd recommend? Moving again later next year so doubt I'll be here for full contract so can I just ask for the burner to be serviced? I'm capable but a little unsure, rather a professional handle this one. 20yrs old, Beckett, 100K, Carrier, forced, new flue, heat exchanger, filter that I can see slightly more brownish since last year but not bad looking.
I am not a service tech but a home inspector I would call montanari fuel in ridgefield ct ask for Andy but rose can schedule any service They installed my new furnace
That is an old coal boiler converted to an oil burner by pulling the ash door and adding fire brick to install the burner. Why'd ya change the filter? The last one lasted 12 years! What I heard my neighbor yelling at the service guy as he walked out to the truck to get a new filter. It looked worse than what you pulled out from the first tank.
Can that rusty water exchange plate be replaced, or will the entire boiler need to be replaced? It could start leaking any time. The 70 year old beast of the east might outlast the newer boiler.
@Dasdfjkl You would have to decide if the boiler was good enough to keep using. A new domestic coil, complete with face plate, could be provided for this boiler. There could be problems in trying to replace it: it's been leaking a long time and the opening in the boiler could be damaged, as well as the threaded mounting bolts/tappings/or studs (depending on the boiler.) For something that crusty and old, I'd go with a new boiler. Might have to use some paint remover on the customer, though!
love watching your videos.. why do you always go with a solid nozzle replacement, I thought I saw an f3 head,"not on this video". wouldn't a hollow be better?
Do you ever have to clean the chimney for these things? I imagine they can get creosote build up over time, as the oil doesn't burn 100% (though a well designed, well-tuned burned can burn quite efficiently).
Creosote is deposits from burning sappy wood. As long as the burner is kept in tune, and the boiler/furnace is cleaned regularly, really shouldn’t be any deposits in the chimney. If you see smoke coming from these, like you’d expect to see from a wood fire, something isn’t right.
Steven; You been living in the dark too long! Get yourself an illuminted hunting hat from Cabelas. Great for tracking deer in the dark after you shot one. I bought some good lights from Home Depot to work on my vehicles. Might be RIGID!
You're right, it'd probly be cheaper to replace the unit. Like he recommended. Or at least have it serviced. But instead she takes the most expensive route and let's the thing kill itself until she has to pay out the ass because of emergency fees. But dang oil just so expensive huh
Grew up with those pipes in my basement. Leaking white dust everywhere. Even at age 12 I knew to tape 'em upwith duct tape. Spent my whole teenage life down there. 15 years later guys came in with space suitsto get rid of all that.
@@thomascoolberth2648 Another guy and I took out the old asbestos corrugated steam pipe insulation at an old house. We knew what we were getting into, so we wore good masks and thoroughly soaked each section before opening it up and immediately bagging it. No dust in the air.
Hope you are retired when she decides to replace that old boiler. I would hate for you to have to carry it out. That cast iron beast must weigh 1000 pounds.
@Don With a sledge and some wood splitting wedges, the old cast iron unit separates into sections, that can be taken out on a hand truck. Nasty, messy job, though. Pay a couple of young husky hungry guys to do it! Tell them it's like two weeks workout at the gym (which it is!)
It seems that you made this video just for people who already know all about oil furnaces. The only thing that you said that I could understand was: "Bad Motor".
@ed marsh Seeing the nasty oil and dirt it should be obvious why he wears gloves. Once you get that ground into your hands it takes forever to get them clean. Plus the oil and products of combustion (soot) are not anything to have your hands in contact with all the time, slow poison.
Am I the only one that finds the videos relaxing or do I have to get my head examined.
Yes, me too. I like work - I can watch people work all day.
Try train videos. Even better.
Might be a little of both for me lol
You can only find his videos relaxing if you've never been standing out in bad weather waving a flashlight so the oil serviceman locates you in the dark. Heating the house is the secondary purpose of an oil burner. Its primary purpose is to provide the oil repairman with a comfortable living.
tighter than 2 coats of paint...... love ya Steve,great tradesman.
Love the old pancake boilers. Easy to service. I see them in Minnesota all the time. Most of them are natural gas. 100+ years old and still choochin. About 60% efficiency. Yeeha!
This guy "I should have one on the truck" this mans stock is next level, its ashame that he doesn't have an apprentice with him this guy you wanna learn from
You’re a very patient man,,,I would have ran away from that ancient burner set up
Don't miss oil heat at all. Glade to know someone still works on them. Good job
It always amazing how technology improves over time and how much smaller the replacement motor is over the one you just removed.
Why do you wear gloves? LOL
I still see people posting that question. Here's a new answer for you Steve.
Why do I wear gloves? You get down here on your knees and do what I tell you to do and we'll see why I wear gloves.
Nice job Steve.
Good job Steve! Please keep the videos coming. I really enjoy watching your videos.
Great job I’ve just about watched everyone of your videos for years very enjoyable
'schmag' - that's a new one on me. Thanks for another great vid, Steve.
is oil heat a very efficient or economical way to heat?
Gotta admire Steve's determination. A lot of guys would have just got a new squirrel cage and been done with it. I'm positive he has one in the truck.
Your helper sitting next to you in your vehicle will never tell you how to do things. Just glad to be on the job next to the boss.
I totally enjoy watching your videos. You are an incredible Oil Burner Technician.
That squirrel cage made you work Steve. That boiler is an old beast, but she’s still choochin. Nice job bud!
Pay me now$....or pay me later$$$, great job Steve.
In 20 years the new furnace is rotting out. But other old furnace still going. Lolol
Got enough tickets to start a small bonfire,in case the motor goes out again,just put the old service tickets in the chamber,and whoosh!.good job,
A little sand cloth and KROIL., on the blower wheel, comes right off. KROIL you can get at United Refrigeration. Use it all the time for sticky shafts. Good vid.
John Frank kroil is the BEST! It loosens things that nothing else will. You can also buy it direct from them at kanolabs.com
50/50 ATF/Acetone is better than Kroil...I've used it for 30 years. Tested it(and a couple of others) alongside with a torque wrench on some rusted up marine fittings. Kroil was 2nd and IIRC PBB was 3rd or 4th along with older "Liquid Wrench".
TakeDeadAim I’ve never tried it, but many people say that the ATF/acetone brew works great. I’ll have to mix up some and give it a try.
That’s a really cool coal fired steam boiler from the teens or 20’s. Those are a piece of history and should be preserved. Do you remember if there was another coal fired boiler in the newer ones place or was the steam boiler the only one?
Will Butter I know, If that beast could talk, stories for days.....
Right before it cleaned your wallet out to make it heat a house for a winter, and then shortened your life span. 😆
Lol, i don't care about efficiency. I'd be keeping that old beast going until the fire box cracks
@Will The Thrill These are both set up as water boilers, not steam.
16:10 to 20:36 , that part of your video sums up just about every "easy" job I do!
Those blowers don't come off most of the time on a motor chageout. So I just do a new wheel on the new motor.. Saves a bunch of time.
But the satisfaction of finally getting it to come off is so rewarding.
Nice Saturday job Steve. That’s money right there
Steve, what an old one. Nice job on quick change out of motor.
Hello from Minneapolis - Minnesota!
Always amazes me how people neglect to service their units and then all of a sudden 'I need you here today!'. Can't even wait the until the weekday. Oh well, extra money.
Steve, not being funny but with both the boiler and pipe work lagged in crumbling asbestos I hope you wore a p3 respirator mask. I 've seen a couple of good people die of mesothelioma from asbestos exposure and it's a truly cruel way to go.
It's easy to be casual about asbestos as it takes years for it to show so it easy to forget that it's doing damage. Up until recently I like you would have and indeed have worked next to asbestos like that with no mask but seeing someone dieing in agony from just this sort of indirect exposure changed my point of view.
@@MrPaul1f Not only asbestos, saw dust, dust from sand, metal fumes welding and soldering, stain varnish paint rubber cement.
I'd honestly probably wear atleast a good dust mask doing any work in a basement. Even if none preset on pipes, could be dust lingering.
I really enjoy the oil burner videos. We don’t have many out here.
Tighter than two coats of paint 😂😂😂😂that was classic. 👍
Ole oil burner, looks like they both need R&R . Good fix for Saturday OT call. Steve Lav.
The reason they don't make things like they used to (equipment that lasted the test of time) is because they need us to continue to work and stay busy and make money and spend money (worker bees). They way they changed the stuff that lasted into the throwaway stuff we use now, is by a scam we are all familiar with called (Environmental protection). I'll be the first to say we all should be conscious of the home that we live on but come on guys, wake up. They have dumbed down and pussified the generations that now live on this earth into little sniveling, crying babies that need safe spaces from words that others speak that don't agree with their beliefs.
Awake oh sleeper and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee life. Think about those words for a moment.
I love your videos. That old boiler. Lol.. you could throw some firewood in that thing to get them by Lol!!! Give it the old gundy.
man these pocket vintage draftrite gauge were hard to find in the 90's,i think today you can buy them online but there was a time when these were rare.
The beast from the east....nice!
A real beast. I like all of the stove cement smeared all over it. Think how many brutal northeast winters it fought off. It's just nicely broken in now.
Great vids! Moved in dreading the idea of oil heat but now I love it.This unit could be mine, not serviced by previous owner in at least three years but works fine. Separate h/w burner too, love it. Anyone in the Danbury/NY state line area you'd recommend? Moving again later next year so doubt I'll be here for full contract so can I just ask for the burner to be serviced? I'm capable but a little unsure, rather a professional handle this one. 20yrs old, Beckett, 100K, Carrier, forced, new flue, heat exchanger, filter that I can see slightly more brownish since last year but not bad looking.
I am not a service tech but a home inspector
I would call montanari fuel in ridgefield ct ask for Andy but rose can schedule any service
They installed my new furnace
Does that fuel oil have the same algae grow in it that diesel does if it sits for a really long time?
That boiler looks as old as my house. Which was built in 1926. My steam boiler is from 2016 though
Most of those motors have an oil port and if the homeowner put one drop of oil once or twice a year, it would help extend the life of the motor.
That is an old coal boiler converted to an oil burner by pulling the ash door and adding fire brick to install the burner.
Why'd ya change the filter? The last one lasted 12 years!
What I heard my neighbor yelling at the service guy as he walked out to the truck to get a new filter. It looked worse than what you pulled out from the first tank.
James Shanks that’s funny 😆 😂
Very fun to watch and learn.
Someone get this man a blower wheel puller 😂 lmao good video my dude
Can that rusty water exchange plate be replaced, or will the entire boiler need to be replaced? It could start leaking any time. The 70 year old beast of the east might outlast the newer boiler.
@Dasdfjkl You would have to decide if the boiler was good enough to keep using. A new domestic coil, complete with face plate, could be provided for this boiler. There could be problems in trying to replace it: it's been leaking a long time and the opening in the boiler could be damaged, as well as the threaded mounting bolts/tappings/or studs (depending on the boiler.) For something that crusty and old, I'd go with a new boiler. Might have to use some paint remover on the customer, though!
I say the beast will outlast the newbie if it's not replaced just for dumb reason like being "too old"
That older boiler looks like a coal-fired unit converted to oil-fired.
time to convert it back to coal.
Did Fred Flinstone own that Oil Burner?
love watching your videos.. why do you always go with a solid nozzle replacement, I thought I saw an f3 head,"not on this video". wouldn't a hollow be better?
great work!!!!!!!!!!
Obviously that lady makes the tenants pay for heat or else she'd have changed that old ancient inefficient relic long ago.
For sure lol she seems real cheap like the tenants pay you rent, the least you could do is replace the boiler in the summer
A fan motor puller & blower wheel puller will do wonders slipping it off the shaft
Do you ever have to clean the chimney for these things? I imagine they can get creosote build up over time, as the oil doesn't burn 100% (though a well designed, well-tuned burned can burn quite efficiently).
Creosote is deposits from burning sappy wood.
As long as the burner is kept in tune, and the boiler/furnace is cleaned regularly, really shouldn’t be any deposits in the chimney.
If you see smoke coming from these, like you’d expect to see from a wood fire, something isn’t right.
wd-40 should start sending you free cases for all the product placement. lol
Thanks for shareing
that's an old coal boiler converted over to fuel looks to be from the 40's
ohh mamma steve is changin a filta n nazzle
Were you working on a steam train? LOL she's older than most boilers even in your videos.
Hi Steve, what is that meter you’re using to measure the flame in the boiler hole? Curious, thanks!
Mchale Navy thanks! Would U be able to tell me what is the proper draft measurements ?
Mchale Navy thank you so much for the information!!!!
No knee pads...Steve?
Damn that coil plate is shot on the wbv
27:23 "Tighter than two coats of paint..." :D
Hey >> Heating Specialist
yes clean the flame sensor with a scotch bright pad and reinstall in
Cool! now I'm wondering if I can get away with charging my lady for the Sunday Service Call? ha ha ... thanks again.
@@TheOregonOutlaw Tell that alternative payments arrangements are welcome.
Would hazmat suits to replace it. Asbestos pipes and insulation on boiler.
No phone calls on overtime Mama
Steven; You been living in the dark too long! Get yourself an illuminted hunting hat from Cabelas. Great for tracking deer in the dark after you shot one.
I bought some good lights from Home Depot to work on my vehicles. Might be RIGID!
wow very old boiler I think this boiler from 1930's to 1940's
Shes got more tickets than my old lady!
Those "beast" boilers were build to last. U less it cracks it will last very long. Definitely not efficient though
when do we check the storage tank for sludge?
When you have to change your filter every 6 months.
Well if oil wasn't so darn expensive perhaps she could afford service more often
You're right, it'd probly be cheaper to replace the unit. Like he recommended. Or at least have it serviced. But instead she takes the most expensive route and let's the thing kill itself until she has to pay out the ass because of emergency fees. But dang oil just so expensive huh
Oh goody asbestos covered pipes
Grew up with those pipes in my basement. Leaking white dust everywhere. Even at age 12 I knew to tape 'em upwith duct tape. Spent my whole teenage life down there. 15 years later guys came in with space suitsto get rid of all that.
@@thomascoolberth2648 Another guy and I took out the old asbestos corrugated steam pipe insulation at an old house. We knew what we were getting into, so we wore good masks and thoroughly soaked each section before opening it up and immediately bagging it. No dust in the air.
Good job brother
BeastMode mama
Oh mamma... if she is paying you weekend rates she isn't tight.
Hope you are retired when she decides to replace that old boiler. I would hate for you to have to carry it out. That cast iron beast must weigh 1000 pounds.
@Don With a sledge and some wood splitting wedges, the old cast iron unit separates into sections, that can be taken out on a hand truck. Nasty, messy job, though. Pay a couple of young husky hungry guys to do it! Tell them it's like two weeks workout at the gym (which it is!)
There was that much rust from just 20 years? That looked like 50 years of rust.
That boiler is older than fire
If she ever sells that house, all that asbestos has got to go. Asbestos abatement is not cheap either.
It seems that you made this video just for people who already know all about oil furnaces. The only thing that you said that I could understand was: "Bad Motor".
I'm a HVAC student 2 weeks in ... I'm followin' no problem.
Easy Money
Should charge her $300.
asbestos pipes,goodbye..
what old junker this is . Steve,why do always wear gloves.love the videos,you always make.keep up the good work.
@ed marsh Seeing the nasty oil and dirt it should be obvious why he wears gloves. Once you get that ground into your hands it takes forever to get them clean. Plus the oil and products of combustion (soot) are not anything to have your hands in contact with all the time, slow poison.
Can't grasp why you wear gloves