Subject: the end of oil In our last wheezy-oil-furnace episode, we were encountering diminishing returns in the effort to size smaller and smaller burner nozzles. The right answer that eventually emerged was to just eliminate the entire problem source. Tonight I burned my last gallon of #2 ever, and the Daikin heat pump arrives in a couple of weeks. I spent some time on initial furnace decommissioning, and the tank is still slowly dripping into a catch bucket as the trickle left in the bottom slowly seeps through the crud. Apparently tanks of this vintage got their legs *set into* the concrete of the basement slab, because efforts to tip up the back end a little bit were completely futile until I hacksawed through both legs at that end. So I'm breaking the oil burner down, and it has several good parts that occasionally get replaced on units in general and might be suitable for good homes elsewhere. A very new Honeywell stack controller, as CAD cells weren't in vogue back in 1955 and this uses a bimetal strip to sense flame presence. A Sid Harvey J-pump that's been rock-solid reliable and quiet for 20 years. A brandy-new Allanson ignition "transformer", more accurately a high-voltage module that produces better arcs, with spring output contacts. The General 1A-25A filter can on the tank, and one or two spare 1A-30 filters. Miscellaneous short lengths of 1/4" [I think] copper pipe and compression fittings and a valve from when I was doing waste-oil mix experiments. The burner motor, no idea what the spec is on it. I don't expect any interest in these items but they're now available. I'm probably keeping the 1000 CFM blower for now, as it's a kick-ass fan for when I might need one. While I'll miss the ol' girl a little bit, it feels really good to finally be clear of the heating-oil industry and some of the filthiest periodic maintenance needed around the place. Heat pumps are awesome, especially the new ones that work down to very cold ambients and are wikkid efficient under a wide variety of load conditions. I don't even have mine yet, but there's plenty of evidence that I'll love it. _H*