Saint Paul

I have (hopefully) attached some pics of the boiler pot and the probe you need to replace. These pics were sent to me by a nice person on this forum when I first had the Kabola E3. I have always found Karunda very helpful but of course they charge money for the spares.  I am about to take the pot out again to hoover out the dust and scrape out the hardened on coke, for the winter use. You COULD fiddle about trying to take the nut off the probe but chances are the nut will not budge until you have lost skin off your knuckles so for both those reasons, I recommend that you do take out the pot to scrape it out.  

Turn off the fuel supply.

Unfortunately you first have to remove the fuel regulator gismo on the front of the heater and the overboil sensor tube whilst being careful not to damage the copper coil tube to it. Keep it upright or the fuel will run all over your floor.

Undo the smallest compression nut on the thermocouple end of the copper capillary tube that connects to the probe in the pot. 

Undo the two nuts that hold on the red font plate of the boiler.

Put a piece of wood under the pot to catch it when it drops so that the "asbestos" tape seal is not damaged. (If it looks dodgy, replace it) or you won't get a good blue flame).

Undo and remove the under two soot covered nuts that you will find under the front of the pot inside the boiler casing and remove their bolts. The front of the pot should drop down onto the wood unless it is gummed up and needs gentle persuasion. It may still stay hung up in place at the back of the pot where is held up by a metal strip that the pot edge rests on.

Carefully pull the pot slightly forward and it will drop off of the back ledge onto the wood and you can slide it all out.

Remove the probe, clean out the pot and install the new probe.

Now - I have always found that putting the pot back is an exasperating job but sometimes it goes back like a dream. Put your bit of wood back in and push the pot back lifting it slightly at the back so that the meatal at the top/rear of the pot resits on the metal strip.

Now you need four hands.

One hand in side the boiler to feel that the pot and its seal is central - another hand to gently lift the front of the pot until it is firmly in place - then you r third hand to insert one of the two bolts at the top front of the pot and the fourth hand you put a nut on the end of the bolt and make it finger tight. you can now use you first two hands to put in the second bolt and nut. 

Now connect the other end of the copper capillary tube to the thermocouple (if you haven't done so, I recommend that having gone to al this faff that you ask Karunda to send you a replacement thermocouple (not cheap but you just saved yourself a fortune in "engineer" charges,)

Replace the front cover and the fuel regulator - turn on the fuel - light the boiler and have a stiff drink.

I may have forgotten something but you should be able to figure it out from the above. Let me know if you get stuck.

Cheers

Ian