De-coking an oil Aga

[The Natural Philosopher]

Ive been running this for 20+ years and every 6 months as fuels have
degraded, it needs the burner decoking.

This is normally an hours struggle with chisels and sharp knives and the
like.

Until the courier threw a parcel into the garden containing these:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B075M93J71

The straight cut one ripped through the carbon in about 15 minutes.

A 4mm drill bit bored the carbon out of the feed pipe.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B074457SDR

All back and working in record time.

And my hands stayed clean. Since a regular Aga service is getting on
for £100 these days, it's well worth it.

Just a note for any other Aga owners on here.

--
You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a
kind word alone.

Al Capone

[John J]

When I worked for L B Fuels. the local Shell agent, we used to use a long series hss drill to clear the coked up oil feed pipe. Many of the aga's we serviced had been converted from solid fuel models and we had a tripod wheeled hoist device to lift the cast iron chamber sleeve out of the way to gain access for cleaning out the interior space and flue ways. Aga''s made originally for oil were of much lighter construction so didn't require the hoist