Re: Empire Burner
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SSsssteamer (IP Logged)
Date: November 05, 2007 01:53AM
Dear Mike,
Correct, When the drilled burner get plugged up, it doesn't howl any more. :-) Both types howl I have found out. It has been often stated that a Baker burner (slotted) can out howl the best of them. I run 140 pounds main fuel pressure and # 53 jets with straight kerosene and my Baker burner really howls when it is cold air outside. When both the Stanley warms up and the air temperature is up to about 65 F. degrees or better, I don't have any howling, or hardly any. # 53 jets can flood a burner quickly with kerosene, so it is smart to give the main fuel vaporizer a quick warm up before giving it full main kerosene flow. A flooded burner can have fire coming out every where and it could be hard on the paint too. The slotted baker burners get cleaned once every five years or so whether they need it or not. A used hack saw blade with the set ground out of the teeth works quickly in clearing any dirt from the burner slots. Light backs are unheard of with both burner types if everything is tight so that no flame can ignite stray fuel vapors. The ignition will usually occur when the main fuel cycles on, or when it cycles off. There are fuel vapors sniffing around then without any main fuel pressure forcing them into the mixing tubes. On my 606, I looked under it the other day while firing up and I had lots of flame coming out from around my super heater holes in my burner wall. I was surprised that I never have any tube fires. The reason why is because I use kerosene which doesn't flash as quickly in cool air and most importantly are my velocity stacks on my mixing tubes. Known also as flares, they give me a boost of performance of about 5 to 10% and they don't let hardly any fuel to drift anywhere but into the mixing tubes. I bought them out of Australia and they are flow tested for maximum ram effect. On our Mt. Wagon, I don't have velocity stacks for lack of room for them, and last month I had a tube fire. The cause was fire escaping out of a blow down hole in the burner side wall. Patched that hole and no more tube fires. If I had Velocity stacks on the Mt. Wagon, I probably woudn't have had a tube fire and I wouldn't have found the fire belching out of the blow down hole. Pros and Cons. If you have a tube fire, take time to look for the cause.