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Our Pet’s Heads are Falling Off…

Dec 16, 2025
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ANECDOTE

Boiler Delivery Gone Wrong

  • Eric Aune recounts struggling to load a heavy CU-3A boiler alone and fighting a failing stair-climber battery and fuse.
  • He embarrassedly enlisted the paying customer to help and arrived two hours late after troubleshooting and charging the unit.
ADVICE

Keep Battery Equipment Charged

  • Keep powered equipment like electric stair-climbers plugged in between uses to avoid dead batteries and blown fuses.
  • Check the charger, fuse, and battery wiring before a scheduled job to prevent morning delays.
ANECDOTE

Mysterious Furnace Pop‑Outs Fixed

  • Andy Mickelson describes a two-year-old furnace intermittently losing flame due to a finicky pressure switch and vent/pressure issues.
  • He traced the pop-pop shutdowns to a low-pressure switch that intermittently broke common to the gas valve after extensive testing.
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