First I wanted to say thanks for all of the great info here on this forum. I have an oil furnace in my garage that I use to keep it heated during the winter. Yesterday I was cleaning the unit and discovered that the lip around the entrance hole to the fiber combustion chamber was missing along the top. Is it alright to operate the unit with the lip damaged like that? With the burner assembly placed back into the furnace, I noticed that the nose of the burner barely meets the the entrance hole of the chamber. The rest of the chamber seems to be in good condition. The chamber did however come apart in two seperate halves when I was claening it. I did manage to get it back together but I am not sure if the metal clamp that holds the two halfs together just wrapped around the chamber, or if it wrapped around the chamber and the metal bracket that holds the chamber in place. Right now the metal bracket is just pushing against the bottom of the chamber, pinning it against the rear wall of the unit. Should I modify the metal bracket that keeps the chamber in place to move the nose of the burner further into the chamber? Heres a picture, hope it works. [IMG]http://i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd308/homer5995/Picture001.jpg[/IMG]

Hi I was wondering if anyone knows how to clean the burners on a 1940s zeph-air natural gas furnace. There seems to be about 12 or so small burners. Some are lighting some are not.I was wondering if I would be able to do this myself. Thanks in advance.