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Saw this at a friends house that they just moved into. We are going to replace it with a new tank with legs this weekend.
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that reminds me of cow tippin ...
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Double wall tank??Originally Posted by canman13
If you really know how it works, you have an execellent chance of fixin' er up!
Tomorrow is promised to no one...
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for a temp tank to replace the bad one this would be ok in my area but ONLY as a temp emg fix that would have to be done properly with in 48 hours
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Nope it was a single wall tank only thing keeping it from tipping is the fill pipe. This was not a temp tank and the Best thing is the house inspector didn't say anything about it.
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They must have left their oil tank unattended in the 'hood
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While acknowledging I'm completely ignorant concerning oil burning furnaces; I still don't know how people sleep at night with all that fuel in their basement or right outside the kitchen door in a shed. How many gallons is that? Get tremors or quakes in NH? DC had one a couple years ago, did they not? {shivers}
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Oil is very safe you can throw a match in the tank and it won't light needs to be itemized. The tank holds 275gal. And yes we got a quack here too
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I don't see oil burners around here. What does it cost to run them on an average sized house?
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On a 2000 sq foot house it's around $2000 for the heating season
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Yes...I do recall from school (I think we had a week on them towards the end of advanced heating) the atomizing part and the importance of nozzle size.
I'm also told I could stand atop a 5 gallon bucket of gasoline and drop a lit cigarette straight down into it and it would be immediately extinguished. I can see that as well, but not about to test it.
I'm just thinkin' you should probably earn a bit more than a humble natural gas guy like me. Do they still have a retry button that the HO can keep pressing and dumping diesel when it's having trouble lighting off? And a step up transformer that could wallop the hell out of you? Or have they been modernized a bit as of late?
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They still have both newer ones you can only reset 3 times after that it goes into a hard Lock out. I have not heard that about Gasoline I would think it would go right up.
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A little 'duck' tape will fix that for you.
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That's weird it does not even look like it has leg bungs, was this a horizontal tank with the leg bungs in the back? And yes, I would not be able to sleep with that tank in my basement.....
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No there were no bungs at all. No idea it's like they made there own tank.
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Horizontal tank ? Legs on side ?
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Back in my drinking days I tested the cigarette in a 5 gallon bucket of gas. It went out 9 out of 10 times. Think the reason it ignited the last time was because someone kicked the gas can.
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Quite sure the DOE is saying that it now costs about the same as to heat your home with electric baseboard.
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Electrical Energy in bc is about 9 cents a kw hour last I checked. Even at that, it is cheaper to heat my place with natural gas than electricity. Not sure about heat pumps and the seer ratings vs gas.
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Itemized? Don't you mean atomized?
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