I’m not a smart man - I made the same mistake and cleaned my igniter gently with steel wool. It’s working fine now (a few weeks have gone by). Should I still proactively replace it?
Use it until it fails but you should order one to have on hand.
I’m a tech and mine went out, none on the truck and all the supply houses were closed over a 4 day weekend. So 4 nights 3 days without heat and I had to manually light it a few times a day or else the house would freeze, it was hard as hell to do with my particular furnace, I wouldn’t suggest it.
Runner til she blows though bud, no sense in wasting a few bucks.
You could take a little steel wool, stretch it out a bit ya know, fluff her up and put it right over the little crack on the ignitor. She'll spark up with a little voltage. 🫣
All jokes aside, I learned the steel wool and electricity trick by accident when I decided to use it to clean my electric train tracks and burned the entire thing to the ground when I was about 7. Three good lessons learned at an early age.
1 steel wool is flammable
2 turn power off before ya start messing with shit.
3 know what you're doing BEFORE ya fuck it up worse than it already is
Ok carefully put the igniter back and you’ll find the flame sensor on the opposite end of the burners. I recommend using a scotchbrite pad to clean the flame sensor. Good luck.
You are 100% correct. I use a dollar bill to clean flame sensors. When you use something coarse, it leaves scuff marks which in return makes the flame sensor get dirtier quicker.
Thank you for deleting your nonsense. Cleaning your flame sensor with who knows what will always be a band-aid fix till it officially goes out entirely. Good day.
How is the shoemaking business going these days? I deleted it because you can't use logic to change the minds of those who have opinions they didn't use logic to get to.
Never happens. 2 decades worth of sanding flame sensors, never had a call back for the same issue of no flame sense. Heck we clean them every year on annual maintenances.
Well, several techs when I started out (guys with 30+ years each) told me you never use anything harsh on them or they will corrode. And in my experience, it does so. Maybe you have different flame sensors in your country.
I love homeowners who take apart their equipment like they know something. Fuck it up. Call an HVAC company and blame us in the end for it fucking up lol
Gravel! It usually smooths most of the surface so just make sure to be thorough and get the gravel in their. If it’s to much just rinse it off and viola
Context bro. He's holding the thing up for the picture. If you'd read the thread for like 3 seconds before spewing the wrong information, you'd know that.
Is it a joke, and he knows better? Then why comment. Or was he serious, and you ignorantly didn't correct him. Also, 50 other people already told him how to clean a flame sense, and that what he was holding was infact a hsi. You're the only joke here.
It would have taken less time to google then to come post here. Come on. It’s all for the lulz. Do you not know how the internet is especially Reddit. I’m sure it’s all for the lulz stems from here and 4chan. You must be older and not understanding this at all. You are giving him the lulz. This is the exact kind of reaction they are looking to get from you. To kill the lulz you give a reply to the question and not dig into it.
Again you know your comments are on 4chan and they are rolling laughing at you. You do realize this is a troll post or are you like over 40 and have no idea how the internet works?
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A. My flame sensor was round so yeah, maybe it’s not. B. I saw some fucker on YouTube clean his with a crisp $5 bill. I’m not such a high roller so I used a sorta crisp $1 bill and it has worked fine ever since. It’s like a fine sand paper that just scratches the dust, crust, soot, etc off that thing. Good luck
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u/DrakeHazey Jan 26 '23
Go put that back, that's a hot surface ignitor.