svme valuable information on U... subject of oil heating plants aﬁahlyy the National Fuel Oil Eouncil These deal with several wmmon aspects of oil heating.

TWO liASlC FACTORS The basic factors in home

mating plant accidents are: (1) the type of fuel burned.

wlii - mhnsfating oil is a relatively safe mi since it is non -" explosive. non-tric controls. is the We of toxic and. in its inert irate, non-inflammable. l However. heating oil (No. 2

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the: oil distinct from other type: of oil fuels used in _ it is particularly

type of equip- .,._ which it is burned. Heating oil (No. 2 fuel oill is always burned in a central heat- automat-

oil homes and particular- ly in the northern half of th e countrv where full heating is required. It is type com- millly understood when the gm,‘ “oilheating" is used.

‘EQUIPMENT USED

Central oilheating has high re- lative safety. The following sum- marizes the te nical reasons

for this:

Central oilheating consists of an automatically operated heat- ing plant with three full groups of electric controls.

It manufactures heat by atom- izing liquid fueloil— breaking it up into particles and then mixing it with r — within a

Combustion occurs only when the balanced oil-air mixture ignited by a controlled electric

park. | This regulated heat in the fire chamber is transferred through

liot water or steam- iarry the heat via enclosed gucts or pipes throughout the

sting with oil are pres-I

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. The heating oil (No. 2 fuel all not catch fire for 30 to

is stored in a large. heavy . e burn- ier Theoil this through piping to the burner always under full regulation of ithc electric controls which shut . it off at any time there is a mal- 1 function

.‘ -rm: CONTROLS

In automatic oil heating there are three interchecking electric con 01s

1. The thermostat which is a thermometer equipped to ‘send an electrical message to the heating plant to turn it on or

the off

2. The basic combustion con- trol sees that this message is executed only if there is the pro- per mixture of atomized oil and proper ignition. It will h the burner temporarily or lock it oft‘ on "safety" if all condi-

acked up by the stackswitch mounted on th e stack — which will also close down operations it the flow of combustion gases to the outside is too hot or to ld

co . 3. The third electric control is

the limit control which holds

within safe limits the pressures

or the temperatures within the

system‘ which distributes th e e

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All these controls back each other up. so that if one misses. the next takes over. In central ' there is never any manual operation. All adjust- ment and servicing are carried on by professional servicemen‘.

PRINCIPAL FACTS

The principal facts about the safety of heating oil (No. 2 fuel oil) are:-— It Is Non-inflammable

rmal State

1 No 2 fuel oil is a refined and stable petroleum fuel which virtually non - inﬂammable in its inert state. Its fire point- t.h- temperature at which it can actually catch fire — is between 140 and 150 degrees Fahrenheit. confused "flash point,” the technic- al temperature at which there is

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partial vaporization and at tim-

Know heating facts and avoid accidents

es flashing. No. 2 fuel oil will 30 de- grees above its "flash point"). As stored in the home and until atomized under controls in the insulated fire chamber. unless

he dipped into a container of it and the match will be snuffed out. Spontaneous combustion al- so is unknown with heating oil. 2 it is even more unlikely that a true explosion in home heating can be caused by heat- ing oi‘. burned in automatic cen- tral henting. An explosion technically a large b consuming all gaseous products almost instantly and having great force. No fuel can explode until it has been completely or largely vaporized into a gas. Large quantities of vaporized heating oil mixed in just th e right proportions with air and ched off by an open flame constitute a situation which just doesn't occur in operation of an automatic central heating sys- tem. There has virtually never been a true explosion of heating oil in an automatic home heat- plant, nor has there been

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—- it has no inherent fumes dangerous to health.

Serious damage or injury are highly improbable.

To sum up, the basic charac- teristics of heating oil and the automatic, electrically - controll- ed equipment in which it is burned are such that a central oi! heating plant accident. even if it should occur. will rarely set fire to a house and will 11 ot cause an explosion. Minor acci- dent can occur. but serious in- jury or major damage are high- ly infrequent.

Therinostat child of Scot chemist

An obscure Scottish chemist named Andrew Uregwas the first person to describe the function or the device now known to most householders as the ther- mostat and give it its name.

In 1031 -' long before oil fur- naces -— Ure wrote a paper for the August Royal society. In it. he described the thermostat or heat governor as a bi-metal de- vice of zinc alloyed with copper and tin combined with steel. It would. he said, regulate damp- nerr and drafts.

In 1883.! Al Butz. a Minneapo- lis inventor. m a de a practi- cal application of the idea that was soon used in some heating plants. I-Ie launched a little en-

ro srsnr BURNER-KICK IT

Light moments in sc1lesman’s life

Oil furnace servicemen. who are now moving into their busiest season. h a v e their lig sad— moments. the old. experienced hand is called to a home, the first thing he checks is the valve on the end of the oil tank. And. some of h in claim it's simply remarkable how often that valve has been turned off. People with chil- dren should look at first thing of all

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v to turn that little wheel." one oldtimer reported.

There are times. however, when a v e n the servicemen

travelling, decided to stop overnight at a motel near Toronto. As he was register- ing the woman operator in- quired as to his business. He told her he was “in oil heat- ing." and she promptly asked if he could help with a prob- e

m. . She explained Hier oil burn- cr sometimes failed to start when heat was required and the man who installed it had been unable to find th e trouble Always the burner was off on safety. and fre- quentiy — but not always - would start when the reset button was pushed.

sent for the serviceman who ‘

removed burner head. cleaned the nozzle and check- ed the ignition— all standard operating procedure. After

this the burner usually started.

Late one night the burner locked out and resetting fail- ed to start it. Irritated at the prospect of paying for another service call, the woman kick- ed the burner. It started im- mediately. Since then, she went on, whenever the burn- er locked out she pushed the reset button and kicked the burner. It always responded. But, she said the practice was not only hard on the feet but

wasn't operating. vestigation revealed there was 0 defective starting.

switch in the oil burner motor."

Spl-.t phase motors are used on high - pressure type '

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puriiers They have a special ; can start if only when this coil is in the 1

ing coil and

circuit. When the motor com- es up to speed the starting coil is disconnected by a con- trifugal switch built in the motor Occasionally the start- ing switch may develop a de- fect so that it does not readily retun- to starting position. when this happens a slight

i switch contact to close and start the burner. The remedy is to replace the motor or take .t the switch contact to close v and to a repair shop to have starting switch fixed.

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An expensive home is no dot -errant with more than half the {multiple-death tragedies toob ‘piece in homes which would [be classed as “modest" or sub ‘standard, 30 per cent sens val- lued at $10,000 or more. and iabout 13 per cent were worth

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Build a backyard barbecue if ‘you must- but don't tinker with eating equipment unless you know what you're doing. That's the advice of one of the largest on heating equip- ment manufacturers in the a furnace or

c o m- pany believes. “such repairs or re-

lacements should be left to

e xpert you should call in to do he work since it simplifies his iagnosis."

Here are the company's sug- at should

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Heat outlets: Radiators and cuts xnastbe clean to give ood performance. Depending

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Repairing oil burners job for experts only

on the type of outlet in ,used in your home. ha ve the service- man drain and clean the units, inspect valves and blow out any accumulation of dust and dirt.

Long research needed to find control system

For many years research en- gincers have been working to make your home comfortable. They've gone high and low and even carried out experiments in planes travelling through the thin cold air eight miles up.

There they found that heat is drawn from the body of the pilot fast that normal room tem- erature is not nearly sufficient to keep him from freezing to

plane feel like 70 degrees—nor- mal room temperature-—requir~ es 140 degrees.

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