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Thanks for that.

Thanks for the reply. I will look up Woodwarm. Clearview I've already looked at..

Thanks very much. Out of interest, since you are obviously in the trade, would you have a recommendation for a good woodturner, around 5kw?

Very interesting, thanks..

That's a very interesting idea. Have you seen this done? I do have a wooden floor and the cellar even in high summer is cool.

Pretty basic with no ornamentation. My guess is pressed steel and budget. No brand name I can find.

No. Its only list to get though. I don't think I am over firing, but then again I'm not discounting anything.

The baffle is in place. I read about that getting air from outside. I suppose there's no reason a hole can't be knocked in the chimney stack to get that. The stack is on the outside of the house. It's an old, leaky house and a total ******* to heat. I suppose then what happens is the fire...

It seems to take a lot to get it up to temperature. It's a big stove with a large firebox, and I think it is too big for the space. It also has the single baffle as opposed to the newer multiple baffle arrangements of modern stoves. I believe that too much heat just disappears straight up the...

First of all, I don't have a lathe, so I have to use the stove. Thanks for the recommendations - I shall get a copy of that book. It also means I can look at alternatives to the Morso.

I thought I would ask here since members usually give more thought to these things than is generally the case. My old wood burner doesn't seem to be very efficient. It is also big. Friends have a Morso Squirrel which seems to blast out three times the heat mine does, despite being much smaller...

That's interesting, thanks. The burner is about eight or nine years old, so not that old I would have thought. I did check the photocell for crap when it started to cut out originally, but it seemed ok. Are you saying the motor can run without me knowing? That would mean it running without the...

Thanks John. I think I understand something though - I think the couplers are designed to deform so they can absorb excess torque should the pump bind. Bit like the crumple zone in a car. Which would mean they can't really be re-used after the pump binds even once, and it's probably why they say...

It's a riello pump connected to a riello burner attached to a Worcester Bosch boiler. As for the testing, what happened was that they original guys I had in to fix it put in a new motor and new pump. Declared it all good and vamoosed. Did come back when it conked but after that I wasn't prepared...

It's the third pump in 12 months. How could all fail if the fault was in the pump? Anyway: check for no water int eh oil - did it with paste. check for drawing off oil and leaving it to settle for hours. Clear as a bell. Check for 10 micron new filter in in line filter. Pumps are bleeding ok...

All of there above but no analyser. The plan was to ensure it works ok then get someone in to service. I've already spent well over a grand on professionals and I am still without a working boiler. I'm only doing this because I don't much fancy paying someone more money to leave me with a bucket...

There is an upside, though. The upside is that this may well be the longest repair attempt in recorded history. I can nearly laugh about it. When I can finally laugh about it I will have overcome. Not the boiler, obviously, but my awful, awful rage and despair.

I would have thought the inline filter would catch them if they are further down the line, but I cannot be sure. It has just conked again after only a couple of hours. The latest pump was tested for three days by the supplier before I got it, so it cannot be a dodgy pump. Oil is running clear...

I don't know. I can check it when I disassemble again. Thanks.

Thanks John. I did seem a bit unlikely. First thing I did when I decided to try to resolve this myself was change the in line filter, which I don't think had ever been changed during the annual 'services'. It was clogged black and oozing. But I didn't;t think there was anything further down...