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I thought it might be helpful to put together a brief troubleshooting guide for folks who find themselves with an oil burner not starting, at the most inconvenient time, like a holiday weekend when your local service company gets a premium for an "emergency" service call. So my experience is...

OK, I learned something useful today. If you are burning up snowblower belts, you might want to get some 40 grit sandpaper and burnish the drive pulley(ies) with it. I went through 2 sets of belts in the past two snows, and was beside myself on why the belts kept sliding on the pulley, even...

I'm trying to use an old Goulds well pump for an irrigation project, but the 3/4hp G.E. 240VAC motor has 117VAC on the case, so something is connecting one of the hot legs to the case, and it's going through a path with some resistance since it doesn't blow the circuit breaker; but the motor...

When I decided to tackle my forced air, oil furnace problems (see my "Replace heat exchanger or entire furnace? ", thread) I got to thinking about my HVAC system as a means to not only condition the air inside my home, but to enhance the air quality if I could. So I did three enhancements that I...

I have a lowboy oil furnace circa 1996, I've serviced it fairly regularly, although last year the igniter worked intermittently and I think saturating the mineral insulator with fuel oil several times and lighting it up, was more than that part could take. In cleaning the blower squirrel cage I...