I'd still poke something around in through the air adjuster hole. For lantern cleaning I use the lump end of a zip tie. There could be a piece of casting flash or some sand or other schmegma inside. Otherwise its got a crappy oversized jet. Box it up and take it back.
Then go on Craigslist and find either a Coleman 413 (2 burner) or 426 (3 burner) and a gallon of Coleman fuel. It'll be way more useful in the long run. If you insist on propane (which is fine) then find a propane model. Optimus and Primus (same company) made some units that were good too. They'll run off your 20 gallon bulk tank just fine. A stove will give you more control although your initial boil will take longer. It'll also be more useful if you found yourself without power sometime. -Curt ________________________________ From: Randy Bennell <rbenn...@bennell.ca> To: Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com>; Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 3:32 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT propane burners I don't think there are any spider nests as I only bought this thing on Saturday and it came sealed in plastic. The air adjuster is wide open. It is supposedly a 55000 btu unit so I cannot run it wide open. Once the water boils I have to turn it down a lot to control the heat. I think the water would be splashing the lid off if I ran it flat out. And my 20# tank would be empty in no time. RB On 11/09/2014 12:20 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: > There should be an air adjuster on the unit, open it all the way and look > around inside to see if a spider has built a nest. Apparently spiders love > propane and they just love to crawl into propane burners. > > Once you get the nest cleared out you may have to play with the air > adjustment a little to get things just right. We discovered at ChowdaQ (last > year?) that any amount of wind is awful hard on those turkey friers (at least > on Dwight's) and its hard to run them at anything less than full bore. For > your needs full bore is probably fine though. > > -Curt > > > ________________________________ > From: Randy Bennell via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > To: "arche...@embarqmail.com" <arche...@embarqmail.com>; Mercedes Discussion > List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 12:39 PM > Subject: [MBZ] OT propane burners > > > Do we have anyone on here that knows anything about propane burners? > > We have acquired one of the turkey cooker units as my good wife is doing > some canning and the enamel ware canner is not to be used on our smooth > glass top stove in the kitchen. > The burner works well to boil water in the canner but the flame is > obviously not the way it ought ot be. There is too much yellow flame and > the pot ends up rather sooty. > > I did a quick look on the web and there are some suggestions that > cleaning up the rough casting of the burner unit will make it more > efficient. I believe one of the other suggestions was to improve the > windscreen around the burner unit. > > Anyone have any useful thoughts on the subject? > > RB > > > > > _______________________________________ > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
