Feature Story Testing your equipment before the onset of the heating season can save a lot of headachesBy George Lanthier A lot of my recent articles have focused on meters, testers and gauges, and in response to those articles a lot of my e-mail surprised me, but I guess in some ways it didn’t. When writing articles I’m finding out ...

Feature Story By Chris Traczek Like Fuel Oil News, many companies in the fuel-oil industry have been in business for 70-plus years. Two, Taco, Inc. and ECR International, chose to share with us how they have been able to stay ahead of the curve over the past seven decades. Taco innovates for the “good of the industry”Taco, Inc., Cranston, R.I., ...

Feature“Diagnostic troubleshooting” can often eliminate the misdiagnosed “blown seal”By George Lanthier Most of this article comes from one I did a long time ago, but it has to do with probably the most troublesome leak on an oil burner. It originates at the burner housing and in most cases the pump is replaced for an alleged bad seal. The truth ...

Featuresby George Lanthier Recently, I’ve been hearing a lot about one of my favorite things to teach and one of my pet peeves. I did an article on this subject about 10 years ago, but it seems at every seminar I teach, it keeps coming up. What makes it even sadder is the cause and the fact that we only ...

FeaturesBy Lindy Lindtveit For Part I Click Here In Part II, we pick up our discussion of the new Tigerloop Model TN oil de-aerator introduced in early 2005 by Tigerholm of Sweden and Westwood Products of the U.S. The new Model TN replaces the former Model T60I, which is the original oil de-aerator and which is installed on millions of ...

FeaturesKnowing the right tests can eliminate confusion in maintaining Permanent Split CapacitorsBy George Lanthier In this article, I’m going to discuss the Permanent Split Capacitor, or PSC motor. About five years ago, these motors hit the United States oil-burner industry and have taken off like no device I’ve ever seen. What’s funny to me as a teacher and industry history ...

FeaturesRemodeled Tigerloop oil de-aerator sets a new standard for the industryBy Lindy Lindtveit ‘Why, that looks just like R2D2 from ‘Star Wars’!”That’s the typical reaction you hear from a burner tech that sees the new Tigerloop oil de-aerator for the first time. And while it’s not exactly a duplicate of that little robot, it does look quite different from the ...

FeaturesService techs must know the correct procedure to complete this common taskBy George Lanthier I love surfing the Internet and the information that’s available there is incredible. There are several great sites for heating guys and we are finally getting around, by request, to bringing back our own Chat Room, DragonTalk. My hopes are that it will not only house ...

FeaturesBy George Lanthier In Part I, we established a lot of rules for draft and ended up by talking about outside air and the fact that although I’m the world’s greatest believer that you must have plenty of draft for combustion, I’m not an advocate of outside air. It’s funny, because over the years in my ruminations about combustion air ...

Features Remember Volkswagen’s ‘Fahrvergnügen” ad campaign? Translated, it means ‘driving with zeal.” Today, the automaker insists that the same sense of excitement happen in the showroom, and has invested with zeal to make it happen.‘We want our new showrooms to be gems, a thrill for buyers and places of exquisite comfort,” said Frank Maguire, vice president of sales and marketing ...