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TonyBuckley

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I stripped down my Taylors diesel heater and discovered most of it had fallen to pieces. Corroded and coked beyond belief. I have only used a couple of times on the new boat and it always burnt orange with not a lot of heat hence the service.

Just priced the replacement parts: burn pot, burner element, main stack and a couple of little bits. £450 quid! Seems a lot for what is basically pressed thin metal.

Should I dump and go for an alternative new heater or press on. It does look pretty and these parts will essentially make it into a new heater.
 
It should, as you are probably aware, burn Bunsen blue and give out ample heat, so something doesn't sound right.
They will burn yellow and produce a lot of soot if not enough fuel is getting through, but the drip glass should show you if there is a problem in that respect.

Complete guess but I would think that ours has about 5000 hours on it and no sign of corrosion or coking up.
I do run it often on kerosene (CH oil) though which burns bluer and gets the stainless steel cherry red and is a good decoking agent for both Taylors and Eber/Webasto/Mikuni alike.

I'd press on as our Taylors is the heart of the boat, but that is an eye-watering price for those parts..
 
It can only burn well if the flue is tall enough and in clear air...I have a lagged extension length, courtesy of this very forum, which takes it well above the sprayhood. Could that be responsible, was it brand new, is there at least 1.2m of flue to 'draw' exhaust air up whilst radiating heat into the cabin?

At sea I have another, lesser extension flue piece which will clear the boom when sailing..

Blue flame, three winters onboard uk, I have stripped it down once INCLUDING ALL the flue pieces, etc

I am a tad biased in its favour, luv it..
 
Had one for 18 years on my last boat. The bottom of the burner pot was the only bit that corroded - I wasn't rigorous in stripping it down, not least because I couldn't detach the burner stool (or whatever it was called) from the bottom of the burner pot. It rusted at the top, where the little grub screw fixes it to the top half - eventually I simply drilled another hole through both halves to take a screw to hold them together. My main cost over 18 years was with the drip feed valve - got through a couple of those. I am considering a pressurised parafin heater for the new boat though. I found the drip feed diesel just too temperamental - with the standard cowl, it blew out too easily from a backdraught.
 
Thanks guys - looking forward to "cherry red".

I got the pricing a bit wrong when looking more closely. Its about £340. I didn't realise the burner pot comes with the element. Not "too" upset with that price.

I do have a very good height of flue and it is capped with an H mounted vent. I don't really understand how it could have rusted to pieces with that in place - perhaps a later addition. The top of the unit cap is non existent through corrosion and both baffles in that part have disappeared. Basically it has disintegrated at the top end.

Do you find the heat travels through the cabin well or do you use a small fan to help distribute?
 
Oh dear, sorry to hear the extent of the corrosion..

The flue sounds perfect too, with H Top.

It IS a later thrupenny bit fronted unit? And you know the age, use, genuine, and stainless steel pucker skin etc?

At a loss, sorry.
Most odd.

Btw mine is mounted v low with a driptray/heat baffle under it to protect the floor. And installed by the galley. Heat moves forward by natural draft I think but, crucially, when at the computer at the chart table opposite, toasty feets...
Drip feed fed via a electric pump from the main tank, if that helps any?

The only times the flame has gone yellow are after prolonged v low flame. A goodly blast for 10 or 15 minutes until cherry red seems to clear it back to nice blue flame all the way up the central 'colander' ..
The thing has stated on for weeks continuously ..
( you prob know all this already)
 
Most of my bits arrived today.

One thing I have noticed is that the angle the fuel feed enters the burner pot is a few degrees different to the old unit.

This means I will have to bend the short length of copper tubing between the drip feed and the burner pot.

What's the best way of doing this. It is small diameter but quite tough. Should I heat with a blow torch?

Thanks

Tony.
 
OK - all fitted and really pleased. It was blasting out heat yesterday though the ambient temperature was 20 degrees so not a good test lol.

One more question... comparing the new and the old Burner Case, I am not sure if I have all the pieces that I should have.

In the old burner case (which was mostly disintegrated), there were two plates of metal that crossed over each other inside towards the top. Like some kind of heat baffles that maybe help keep the heat in the case while letting the gases escape. The new case did not come with these, but there are holes on the side in the same place as the old.

Currently trying to track down these parts but no success so far.

They don't seem 'necessary', but they must be there for a reason. Anyone know what they are for?

Thanks,

Tony
 
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