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Thank you all! managed to get a neighbours compressor and clear the blockage. Boiler working fine now.

Not in a rush for heating, we have immersion tanks for hot water. Whats the best way to clear the blockage?

15 to 20 m

Its a plastic tank about 3 years old, the pipe is copper with plastic sheath underground. I haven't got a compressor, are there any sort of hand pumps? etc or CO2 types.

I have took the filter off at the tank and reattached. then disconnected the pipe leaving the filer and oil flows freely through the filter. How do I clear the oil pipeline of sludge?

Should the oil be under enough pressure from the tank to flow through the pipe? If so this isn't happening because I disconnected the line before the fire valve.

How do I do that?

So far: I have disconnected the filter at the tank, cleared and reconnected. I then slowly undid the nut after the tank filter and oil came spurting through, so i know it is getting to the pipe past the filter. Next i undid the nut upstream of the fire valve and filter. I was expecting...

Still no oil coming through. I have disconnected the oil pipe upstream of the fire valve expecting flow but nothing

It is a 3 in 1 gem, with sight gauge. When i pulled the pin for the gauge there was hissing and oil dribbled out the end. Is that normal? I am going to take another look tomorrow when it is light again at the filter. I took the fire valve off upstream and no oil comes through. If there is...

I have checked the filter and got rid of a little sludge but still have the same problem.

Hello all, We were recently were away for a couple of weeks and came back to find our oil boiler in lockout. Camray 55. Checked oil and it had ran out while we were away. Had a new delivery of oil and left to settle for a while. The boiler still went out into lockout, so I bled...