Title: Oil Burner Electrode Assembly: Inspection, Cleaning, Adjustment
Headings: Oil Burner Electrodes
Assembly: Inspection, Cleaning, Adjustment

Oil Burner Electrodes
Assembly: Inspection, Cleaning, Adjustment
Oil Burner Electrode Setting & Adjustment Procedures
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Content: If you try to adjust or replace the oil burner nozzle, electrodes, or electrode ceramics (this is a job for a trained service technician, but an amateur can clean the outside of these parts if working with care not to disturb the adjustment). We also discuss oil burner nozzles and heating oil delivery rates and pressures
at HEATING OIL USAGE RATE. Be careful not to over-tighten or damage the brass nozzle-end fittings - the connection between the oil burner nozzle itself and the brass oil burner adapter. Early in our oil burner service experience we thought it was great to make these parts as tight as possible. T
The result was damaged threads on the oil line to which the nozzle adapter was mounted, or damaged threads between the nozzle adapter and the nozzle itself - leading to oil spray leaks, improper firing, and having to replace these parts damaged by heavy handedness. Be careful not to break the ceramic insulators on the oil electrodes
Check the Combustion Head or Turbulator or Heat Shield Position Settings as well. Many oil burners include a heat shield mounted on the end of the burner tube OR multi-bladed turbulator assembly, often held in place by a collar tightened over the oil burner nozzle. Shown above: the combustion head assembly for a Carlin 201 oil burner - excerpted from the manual cited below. The turbulator holding bracket and its mounting position on the nozzle adapter may be fixed to assure good clearance distance ahead of the electrode tips.