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Waste Oil Heater => Commercial Waste Oil Heaters => Topic started by: Btaylor on January 31, 2013, 12:02:27 pm
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I have a lanair mx200 that I cannot get to light. It done this to me the other day and I drained about 5 gallon from the bottom and it worked fine for a couple days. Tried to drain it today and it still won't light. The only thing that comes out when I drain it looks like oil. Could the water not be settling out? I'm about fed up with this thing temped to sell it. It's been more trouble than its worth.
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Hello
Sorry to hear about your bad luck I have had this problem before but I do not own a commercial Burner mines custom built now a few things will help does it not light at all .... take a few steps to get some details
pull the nozzle make sure it didnt get cloged up
check to see if its spitting any oil out at all
Check electrode gap and clean up and build up and re gap if needed
If that doesnt help
Could be bad oil
in this case
I run to gas station pick up 5 gal of Diesel and run it tought it i do this once a month anyways it seams to keep my heater block Clean out and burn up any un burned oil
if that works then just replace that batch of oil I got 110 gals worth of bad oil this year so im gonna boil of the water next year
Good luck
PS check to make sure your retention head didnt shift some how (happen to me)
And if you have a wife I no the feeling mines cusses my burner out everything it stop working LOL