Thread sealant's not the way to go, Lou, with respect. If you did indeed get something to cope with the heat - and it gets very hot even at the jet mounting on the burner - you'd have effectively done away with the option to replace the jet in future. Quite probably you'd never get the sealed-in jet removed without shearing it off. Something you said above about tightening the jet until it squeaked caught my eye. It's possible your replacement jet has incompatible threads. A jet's threads shouldn't bind in the jet mounting threads to the point of squeaking. The seal is made between the shoulder of the jet and the mounting and not the 'tightness' of the jet threads. However mechanically tight those threads become if a jet with the wrong thread pattern is forced into place they'll not be gas-tight, hence the flame around the burner shoulder. I've occasionally come across this phenomenon of jets of unknown make having incompatible threads. Though the Petromax is of German origin jets for Swedish stoves should be ok but beats me what you've got hold of with that replacement. I'd be inclined to remove the silent burner jet and try out the jet from the roarer burner, although there's a chance that the 'tightening until it squeaked' sequence might have damaged the burner jet mounting threads such that the proper jet may now be a sloppy fit. Worth a try though. John
John, awesome points; went ahead and exchanged jets with the roarer and still the same flaming at the jet; will have to look into the jet flaming issue and with magnification take a close look at the seat; have a hunch that there might be a crack in the seat; got the roarer jets from one of our providers and it screwed in w/o problems that I could tell but still flamed that is where I tightened it more hoping to seat it deeper; there is an option and that is brazing up the hole with the jet in place and thus forming new threads; have to look into that trick as its been ooohhh sooo many years ago when had to build up a pump with aluminum housing and stripped threads + broken off ear; John Thank you again for the moral support and wisdom Lou
into that trick as its been ooohhh sooo many years ago when had to build up a pump with aluminum housing and stripped threads + broken off ear; Youll find brass so much easier to work with. If there is a crack then you may be able to sivler solder it with the jet removed without damaging the thread. Silver solder flows into fine cracks but doesnt glob in big areas so at most will just cause a fine coating on the thread which might make the jet a tight fit
Geeves; George; looked at the jet seat with a magnifying glass + my triphocals and do not see a crack; went ahead and switched the entire burner onto the Petromax frankie and it did the same thing ; so the problem is in the burner went ahead and sent it to the scout with the roarer and am sending the petromax silent burner to Gary; am about to have indigestion with this old girl; will keep you posted...........and as always thanks all for the help; cheers Lou
Just a follow up of the Yellow flame burner and a BIG thank you to BernieDawg with admiration + for fixing this problem that had me stumped for many hours could never get the burner to burn clean; always that nasty smokey yellow flame + having to listen to my sweet wife complain about the bottom of her cooking utensils were "nasty" Gary; whatever you did was awesome.........she is burning Beautifully and back in the hands of a very happy 16 year old Scout never could find a number on her.....just Petromax here she is in all her splendor; well kinda rough around the edges but she burned like this for a 1/2 hour and did no more pumping after she burned blue BernieDawg's magic and BEFORE! cheers Lou
