I was looking for some tapered metal for truing up distorted flame rings, spirit cups and 96 burner heads. I came across some furniture feet in B & Q and bought several. They can be cut down to provide supports in a variety of diameters. When used as a support you can tap the projecting portion of the part with a hammer to return it to shape. You can also force the taper into distorted circular parts to make them circular again The cut down feet can be kept together by passing a smaller section of a foot through them and screwing it to the original foot bottom Regards Bryan
Hi Bryan As per usual ingenius Finaly B&Q sell something worth having & useful at last. If they knew they'd have charged you three times as much . Best regards Stu.
Hey Bryan, great idea for those with lots of distorted brass flame spreaders. How about those with logos stampe on it? Ron
Hi If you are reshaping a 96 or 100 burner head you need two parts of the taper. One part to support the burner head under the flat gallery that is just below the top. The hole has to be big enough to accommodate the head when it is correctly shaped. You then need another tubular section that is a tight fit in the head around the perimeter of the flat gallery. This is put inside the supported gallery and then hit sharply with a hammer. This drives it downwards and expands the head into either a circular or near circular shape. You may not get it perfect but it should be an improvement on the misshape that you had before. This method needs a plate on top so that you hit the end centrally However you can also reverse the pieces like this ThIs gives you something to hit with the hammer without any plate on top I have no idea what sort of furniture the feet are for. Regards Bryan
Howdy, Bryan, Outstanding stuff, as usual, Sir!! Very well done, and absolutely workable. Thanks, very much, for once again sharing some interesting, educational, and much needed information with us, Bryan!! Take care, and God Bless! Every Good Wish, Doc
FLAME SPREADERS I have noticed several site members and Base Camp wrongly using the term flame spreaders instead of flame rings for the loose part of a roarer burner. If the part was named after its function it would be called a flame restrictor as it restricts the flame spread keeping it close to the burner for vapourising purposes. Its function is to help heat the burner so ensuring proper vapourising of the fuel. If it was missed off the flame would spread further but you would probably experience flaring with liquid fuel coming out of the nipple. Does anyone know where the term flame spreader came from? All of the part drawings clearly name the part as a flame ring. Regards Bryan
If i had to guess it's a carry over from the use of the words for the top plate of a 123 style burner where the shaped plate does indeed spread the flame to the burner bell to provide the afore-mentioned process of keeping the burner bell hot and thus the vapourizing tube hot enough to perform it's function. lance PS; trying saying all that in one breath as there are no commas or periods in that sentance. lp
Hi Lance Your name for the plate and description accurately describe its function however the plate is called a burner plate by the stove makers. The makers often appear to misname parts although this could be because the parts were originally named in Swedish and the odd names may be the result of poor translations. I used to have difficulty with the term reserve lids. To me a reserve is a spare and I could not understand why a cap or plug that sealed the centre of the tank could be called a reserve lid although it did reserve any fuel that was in the tank. On a 96 & 100 you have a burner head which sits on a vapourising tube. It would have seemed more sensible to call it a vapourising tube head. A similar fitting on a 123 type stove is also called a burner head however that is logical as it sits on top of a burner. The gauze inside a vapourising tube is called a strainer however that is not its function. It may partly act as a strainer but its main function is to help vapourise the liquid fuel. It does this by absorbing heat from the inside of the tube and heating the fuel that passes through it. A vapourising tube without a strainer will initially light but cools relatively quickly with the liquid fuel and then emits burning liquid fuel instead of vapour. On some stoves the tube under the tank lid is replaceable and I have seen it called a tank lid screw by the stove makers. I would have thought that it should have been called a filling tube as screws are not normally hollow. Regards Bryan
