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Properly setting up burners BY G EOR GE L ANTHI ER
dures to burners like the RIELLO, Figure 1. M Figure 1 Figure 2
any of you may remember my articles about adjust- ing oil burners by eye, a cad-cell eye that is using my "Lanthier Scale" and even how to apply these proce-
Figure 3
Many people who have used the procedure swear by it and
many still struggle to properly set up burners swearing at them instead of correctly adjusting them. Forgive me, but I also need to make one thing very clear before
we proceed and find it sad that many still don't get the very first essential element to adjusting an oil burner. This golden rule is not only for proper operation, but for the most reliable and clean opera- tion that you can achieve you MUST have proper draft setup. I'm either getting smarter in my old age or maybe senility is
finally closing in, but why are so many struggling with something so simple? Look, in my opinion, draft is probably the worse word to ever have been used around oil and gas burners unless you're going out for a few after work. Forget draft, think air, it's all about airflow and if it's wrong, well, it's wrong. Keep in mind the essential quote on burner adjustment:
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