Re: Strange Stanley burner experience
Posted by: Ben in Maine (IP Logged)
Date: August 15, 2005 11:50PM
<HTML>Hi Pat,,Good to hear you are out and about,,at least,,,,A few questions,,,Do you think the volume of liquid was gas??? My thought is 1 the pilot went out 2 the main valve was on , 3 the pressure droped and the automatic opened the fire valve,,no pilot,,and it flooded everything,,,If the pilot had been the source of fluid, I think the temperature of the casting would have been well above the boiling point of Coleman fuel,,so it would have flared w/ gusto if it was a gasoline fire,,,,, A few more ??? As far as I know the Baker ventouri tube is flared on the end and goes UP, so raw fuel will run back out as vapour goes IN,,,I have got'n 2 qts of fuel out while firing the black car til I made peace with the ole girl,,,Now I can fire on a wood floor w/a pie tin below,,,Just in case,,I have a DRAIN petcock at front and rear of that huge burner,and hope to never need them,,,Use a petcock, as a plug will be useless? when all is hot,,,but a 4'' wrench will turn a hot petcock ,,,Somehow I think if the main valve was on , you would have said so,,So,the questions,,,For the other fellows,,,the Stanley burners are harder to clear,,so great care should be used to avoid this,,HOWEVER,,,,,oh gosh,,,need we go there,,,The problem I have had was that when the casting gets to 750 deg from fire below,,,,its hard to get the fire to stay on top OR there is a lingering flame in there somewhere,,to cause a relite,, Well you did well to handle it so people dont panic when they see smoke,,,,another problem,,,,Alan B had his mountain wagon out yesterday too,,,all went well all had fun,,Cheers Ben</HTML>