Goff, Kansas (Nemaha County) USA | I don't know too much about the Lanairs (other than what the guys at the farm shows say) but I have a Shenendoah 235 heating my 50'x100' shop. Have had it for 11 winters now and around 14,000 hrs on it, and have resealed the gun twice which the last time I did a full rebuild, nozzel, heating elements and the whole works, one other thing that made mine work much much better too was changing the 15 sec cutout to a 30 sec cutout on the shut down. That way if I have some bad oil or happpen to have a bit of water it will be more likely to get past it and keep on burning instead of shutting down waiting to be reset.
The gun on the Shenendoah's (firelake now) is very simple to take apart and clean and rebuild. The only think I have against the Lanair is the same thing with my Shenendoah which is the short length of the combustion chamber. The firelake for instance and some others too with the longer frame look to me to be better when it comes to getting a good full burn out of your flame. I should clean my burner once a month to keep the buildup of ash down to keep the heat transfer as optimal as possible but usually end up putting it off to more like twice a season when I start having problems. I know the longer frame setup burns cleaner cause I was checking out one that had been in use for a couple years and they hadn't cleaned it out yet at that point and it looked just as clean as when I get done cleaning mine out. Make sure you have plenty of oil supply, have gotten quite a few around here now so oil is getting kinda scarce to go around. I typically go through 1100+ gal a season and keep it set around 65 all the time. I also have LP fired hot water in the floor too though that I run if it is getting real cold out to help the oil furnace keep up.
Any of you other oil burners have any slick filter systems set up or are you getting good enough oil you don't have to filter it much? Seems lately I have been having to scrounge up some real crap oil sometimes. I have been using a 5 gal steel bucket with hole cut all over it then lining the inside with screen door screen which works ok but still has to be babysat or you can make a mess... |
Lanair waste oil shop furnace
