Taylor's 079 Paraffin Heater.

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Hi, I have a Taylors Parafin Heater that I plan to fit in my boat. I have set it up to test run before I install it.
Everything works fine, but I have one concern regarding the fuel delivery pipe. It gets hot, very hot.
Where it connects to the heater body, it turns water to steam. 12 inches away it's too hot to hold after just 15 mins of running.
Is this normal?
 
Paul06 said:
Hi, I have a Taylors Parafin Heater that I plan to fit in my boat. I have set it up to test run before I install it.
Everything works fine, but I have one concern regarding the fuel delivery pipe. It gets hot, very hot.
Where it connects to the heater body, it turns water to steam. 12 inches away it's too hot to hold after just 15 mins of running.
Is this normal?
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Yes.

Perforated metal shields are available or you could use perforated s/s tube. Or, you could do as I do, and make sure you don't touch it!
 
Hi, thanks for your reply, just to be sure we are talking about the same thing. I'm asking about the small fuel supply pipe and not the flue.
The only reason I ask is because I have seen lots of pictures of perforated flue covers, but I haven't seen a single photo with a cover over the fuel pipe.
 
Paul06 said:
Hi, thanks for your reply, just to be sure we are talking about the same thing. I'm asking about the small fuel supply pipe and not the flue.
The only reason I ask is because I have seen lots of pictures of perforated flue covers, but I haven't seen a single photo with a cover over the fuel pipe.
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I beg your pardon. I read your post in a hurry and I didn't read it properly. :o
 
I have just checked my heater, same model. The fuel delivery pipe stays cool but it does not pass uninterrupted through the heater casing. The external pipe (cool) connects to a brass fitting (warm) on the casing and thence to a separate internal pipe (hot) to supply the burner. Interestingly, the control rod does pass straight through a slightly oversize hole in the case. Outside the case this rod is very hot...
If you are near Christchurch (UK) pm me and you can have look at one in situ.
 
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Hi, that's a great help, Thank you.
My fuel pipe set up sounds the same as yours. An internal pipe that terminates on the outside of the heater. Then the fuel pipe with an olive and nut that goes to the fuel tank.
I must have a fault somewhere.....
 
Just on this.... I’m considering a Taylor’s 079. How do they perform? I have a 43ft with a large deck saloon area. We have a Webasto but it’s too power hungry to rely on long term.
 
Mine is an 065 but it has the same burner as the later models and it puts out a lot of heat.

The problem is that the heat is very localised so you need a fan to circulate it around the cabin. With a boat your size you might need two heaters.
 
Paul06 said:
Hi, that's a great help, Thank you.
My fuel pipe set up sounds the same as yours. An internal pipe that terminates on the outside of the heater. Then the fuel pipe with an olive and nut that goes to the fuel tank.
I must have a fault somewhere.....
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I had assumed the fitting on the case between the hot internal fuel pipe and the cool external pipe acted as a thermal break. The Owners Handbook notes in Section 6.4 (Assembling the fuel supply pipe) that "The fuel pipe has a soldered nipple at one end with a coupling nut which fits onto the (internal) fuel fuel line at the (case) fitting. All other joints.... use compression fittings. " The soldered nipple may be significant.
 
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Yes the internal pipe from the bottom of the burner to the outside of the heater is soldered at both ends into the coupling nut and the olive at the burner end. Its the standard part.
 
Paul06 said:
Yes the internal pipe from the bottom of the burner to the outside of the heater is soldered at both ends into the coupling nut and the olive at the burner end. Its the standard part.
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The manual suggests the external pipe also has a soldered nipple.
I confess I am clutching at straws here. I cannot see how the heat travels along your external feed pipe and not mine, even when I get the heat exchanger up to 200 Celsius.
 
I'm the same, I have the new, cast type burner, I did wonder I'd I was being a little too enthusiastic with the preheat blow tourch, but even after cooling the external pipe down, it gets hot again.
 
Experiment with the pressure - up and down. Can't really imagine it helping, but worth trying. I run my stove at 15 psi - well below what the manual says. I find the Hanse burners much prefer this.
 
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