Articles by Jim Todd

Here’s what I learned long ago on the care and feeding of triple-acting aquastats.

If you have trouble with combustion, go back to the basics before blaming what could be a perfectly fine burner.

Oil heat is a sophisticated combination of combustion, electricity, hydraulics, plumbing and physics.

Replacing a transformer with another transformer no longer makes sense.

Internet-based technology helps take the guesswork out of your work.

A friend of mine had been working on a solar heat system using a Fresnel lens to generate steam. His thought was to heat large buildings by directing magnified levels of solar energy on a collector, and his proposal included a set of pen and ink drawings of our state capitol.

Fire safety. Now there's a merit badge in the making! We are surrounded by heating appliances that rely on a flame to work, but we take for granted that they'll all work safely.