Hi all,
I've got a BZ99 which I'm probably at least the third owner, it would be 20+ years old. Today it finally died. The boiler was filling and it seemed to be going longer than usual and the was puff of steam then it kept filling then the circuit breaker was tripped. So I unplugged it and had a look and this is what I found. It looks like scale build up developed between the heating element plate and the bottom of the boiler. So possible when pressure built up water squeezed out and shorted the two heating element terminals. I pulled the heating element off and boiler internally looks ok, however there is build up of scale around the element opening off the boiler. I was thinking of buying a replacement heating element and gasket but since it shorted I wonder what else could potentially be wrong. Is it worth fixing ?
Any advice would be appreciated.
I've got a BZ99 which I'm probably at least the third owner, it would be 20+ years old. Today it finally died. The boiler was filling and it seemed to be going longer than usual and the was puff of steam then it kept filling then the circuit breaker was tripped. So I unplugged it and had a look and this is what I found. It looks like scale build up developed between the heating element plate and the bottom of the boiler. So possible when pressure built up water squeezed out and shorted the two heating element terminals. I pulled the heating element off and boiler internally looks ok, however there is build up of scale around the element opening off the boiler. I was thinking of buying a replacement heating element and gasket but since it shorted I wonder what else could potentially be wrong. Is it worth fixing ?
Any advice would be appreciated.










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