Tay;ors 029

[RobinBirch]

Hi

Hanser has a Taylors 029 stove which has started playing up. The stove was on the boat when I bought her. Has anyone got an instruction booklet in pdf format that they could PM me?

 

[FWB]

Re: Taylors 029

These People will help.

 

[Parsonsheath]

Re: Taylors 029

Those people "helped" me, they will tell you who in your area is your distributor, then you pay him £10 for the "handbook" which covers several sheets, and is not of great help!

Then ask round, try old wooden boats first, "they always had Taylors" tho they are all on gas now (?) and they can do more than any notelet!

Do check with someone first as the spares are exhorbitant, psst, wanna new burner chief, just under £80!

 

[vyv_cox]

What form does the 'playing up' take? There is plenty of experience of them in the forum.

 

[RobinBirch]

I've used the stove on/off for about 6 months. No real problem until my last visit. Either burner when lit gently 'pulses'. Difficult to describe really. It's not a flaring up and the heat output is not as good as it was. I don't know if there is any routine maintenance I should be doing. 'Moonfire' is sending me a pdf of the manual for starters. Any ideas?

 

[srp]

Pulsing is often due to overfilling the tank with paraffin. The pump can only compress the air in the tank. I'm not sure why it should pulse at the burner because of this, but my old Taylors always did.
If it doesn't leak paraffin anywhere it's best not to take it apart. If you do take it apart make sure you have new sealing washers. The only tricky bit to get right on re-assembly is to get the little geared burner pricker in the right position - not difficult really.

 

[santeana]

It's possibly caused by your regulator valve being too open. Try closing the regulator valve with the stove lit - (there's sufficient residual fuel/pressure in the pipeline to sustain the flame for a short time). Then just crack open the regulator the smallest amount you can to sustain the flame. Pulsing should stop. This works on my 030L. If you don't have a regulator valve fitted then.....