Servicing a vaporising or pot burner for an oil Aga

[@tower2914]

Thanks will give it a go. Rayburn quit working today.

[@ffozzy1]

Thank you so much 🎉😊

[@andrewellis1934]

The last guy who serviced mine put new wicks in, where can I get the wicks please?

[@auntfanny3266]

Useful. Thank you.

[@ffozzy1]

Quick question where would I get some wicks from

[@curmudgeon1933]

If you turn your phone to film horizontally you won't cut off 3/4 of the screen.

[@plumbteam]

+Curmudgeon I make poor quality video's..... it's kinda my thing

[@curmudgeon1933]

Your choice, I was under the impression you were trying to pass on useful information. My mistake.

[@itsyaboinginda5841]

Curmudgeon bruh you don’t need to be a dick

[@carlmitchell9958]

Not really a diy job, messing with vaporising burners can be tricky.

[@adrianclarke2075]

Lol,it's an easy job for a human with good common sense

[@colinelliott5629]

It's actually extremely simple, and you'd have to do something really daft for there to be any danger. That said, there's something of black art about it, arising mainly from the paucity of descriptive literature. It took me a long time to know how to control high fire and low fire. Adjusting the height of oil in the burner is extremely awkward on my Aga (it's done by adjusting three studs beneath the oil control valve, which I can neither reach nor see easily). One needs to be able to check the level in the burner, if adjusting. When I used service engineers, they always cemented in the cauldron lid, and if I didn't, oil escaped and burned where it shouldn't, so I had to do the same. it's only recently occurred to me to grind the surfaces flat with paste, which has removed the chore of having to keep some fire cement. My Aga actually needs next to no maintenance, and even less adjustment. The main problem is the carbonising in the cauldron, the pipe immediately underneath, and it only takes me a few minutes to do, apart from allowing it to cool, but not too much; I've found that it's a good idea to maintain it and relight before the flue has cooled. However, I've lately discovered that the oil passage ways in the burner are partly blocked. I'm still trying to think of a way of clearing them properly, but it's taken 50 years to get that way.

[@petermartin5030]

​@@colinelliott5629Did you find a good way of cleaning the radial oil channels?

[@colinelliott5629]

@@petermartin5030 Not really. I use a stout bit of wire bent so as to be able to be inserted, with which to scrape it out. The outer ones are awkward.

[@petermartin5030]

I ended up cleaning the radial oil channels with a long screw through a perpendicular strip of woid as a handle, plus a thin, flexible hacksaw blade.