Ideal 120 Combi no hot water

[Agile]

I dont know how you can come to any conclusion as to the problem when the relevant tests have not been done.

If it was a sticking gas valve then in all probability it will work normally over the winter until July next year while the weather is cooler.

The gas valve is quite expensive and quite a job to change! I hope you have clear space to the right of the boiler?

Tony Glazier

 

[festive]

You're not wrong!

Just looked up part:

075213
E01-797 Gas Valve GAS VALVE ASSY 120 RESPONSE £165.48

Ouch. So im better off paying monthly Ideal cover and getting it fixed under that me finks. That's equates to 20months cover.

Still not sure why there isn't a service kit or whatever, crazy price, what happened to just replacing an o ring or stripping down the valve and greasing it?

 

[Agile]

Gas valves are precision components assembled in clean rooms and in controlled conditions. Definately not something for Joe Bloggs to start fiddling with as the safety depends on the valve not sticking on and blowing up the house.

A few gas valves have changeable solenoid coils.

I suppose you expect to change the brushes in your cars alternator? Just try to find a supplier!

Tony Glazier

 

[chrishutt]

I suppose you expect to change the brushes in your cars alternator?

Tony, did you really say that? Since when did alternators have brushes? Perhaps you were thinking of dynamos.

 

[ChrisR]

Full retail price on that valve is £314.09 inc vat. Which is the price you should expect to pay, plus fitting.

 

[Agile]

Take a typical car alternator apart and you will find there is usually a single brush to the rotor to apply the rotating magnetic field!

I appreciate that many of the cheap mains generator sets use a brushless rotor which induces the field from the stator although that method apparently gives poorer regulation.

Dynamos have two and you used to be able to get replacement brushes and it was a DIY job to replace them.

Tony

 

[chrishutt]

You're right Tony. I should have checked my facts first . It didn't sound like you to make such an elementary error. Apologies...

 

[Agile]

In earlier cars the field current was applied through the "ignition light" with the effect that if the ignition bulb failed so did the charging system!

That was pretty uncommon compared with the failure of the alternator belt. There was a myth that you could use a pair of stockings as a temporary belt but I have never met anyone who made that work ( or many who wore stockings either! ).

Tony