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On my trip to Iowa last weekend, I almost threw my turkey burner across the yard...I have been fighting with that POS for a while, but this was the last straw.
I have one like this....
The trouble with this is that it is a bowl...it holds ash that falls out of the charcoal chimney, and then if it rains on it it immediately is clogged, rusted, and unuseable. I can't count the number of times that I have performed surgery on that POS to get even a half assed dirty yellow flame.
When I got back I ordered one of these for $40.00 shipped to my door from Ebay.
I looked at different designs and was going to get a 23 tip jet burner, but I always came back to simple is better for something like this...Here's how simple it is.
It has a fixed 20 PSI regulator attached to a needle valve. This makes the regulator somewhat adjustable by a device that isn't going to go belly up...solid.
Stainless braided hose that attached to 1/4" pipe....solid. (there is a guard that goes over this...removed for the pic)
Then the orifice is a simple brass cap that has a small orifice drilled in it that points up the throat of a larger diameter pipe.
There is a cap that slides over the flame and acts as a flame spreader for larger pans...
I fired this up in the sun, and I couldn't even see the flame...no dirty yellow flame, this baby put out a clean and super hot flame that I could neck down with the needle valve. Man, Simple is good, especially when it works like this. I'm gonna scrap the burner on my old one and turn out a double burner setup in the shop at work just for grins...I'll put that on the long list.
I have one like this....
The trouble with this is that it is a bowl...it holds ash that falls out of the charcoal chimney, and then if it rains on it it immediately is clogged, rusted, and unuseable. I can't count the number of times that I have performed surgery on that POS to get even a half assed dirty yellow flame.
When I got back I ordered one of these for $40.00 shipped to my door from Ebay.
I looked at different designs and was going to get a 23 tip jet burner, but I always came back to simple is better for something like this...Here's how simple it is.
It has a fixed 20 PSI regulator attached to a needle valve. This makes the regulator somewhat adjustable by a device that isn't going to go belly up...solid.
Stainless braided hose that attached to 1/4" pipe....solid. (there is a guard that goes over this...removed for the pic)
Then the orifice is a simple brass cap that has a small orifice drilled in it that points up the throat of a larger diameter pipe.
There is a cap that slides over the flame and acts as a flame spreader for larger pans...
I fired this up in the sun, and I couldn't even see the flame...no dirty yellow flame, this baby put out a clean and super hot flame that I could neck down with the needle valve. Man, Simple is good, especially when it works like this. I'm gonna scrap the burner on my old one and turn out a double burner setup in the shop at work just for grins...I'll put that on the long list.
Are you sure you're a real engineer?? 
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