So how do you start a Dickinson Newport cabin heater?
 

"ray lunder" wrote in message
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Ahoy, I bought a used Dickinson Newport cabin heater and tried it out
for the first time tonight set up on the shop floor. I can't get the
fuel to vaporize. I have the stack and hat on and the tank is about 3
feet above the heater. There's nothing coming out of the overflow
nozzle.
If I'm interpreting the instructions correctly the Superheater goes in
with the little hat part down, so it's about an inch and a half over
the fuel inlet and covering it. Is this right so far? The burner ring
goes in with the lip down. Then I turn the meter to one, wait for a
two tablespoon puddle and light it, turn the chimney fan on low and
turn the meter off. The fuel is supposed to vaporize, whatever that
means, after about five minutes but it never happens. From the drawing
it looks like the flame is supposed to be above the burner ring but
NOT visible below it. I'm not sure how this is possible.
I tried turning the meter to one to keep it from going out and played
with the fan and more fuel but it just fills the pot with orange
flame. If I add enough fuel the flame reaches up over the ring but I
don't think this is what they mean. It doesn't put out much heat to
speak of. Anybody ever use one of these things? What am I doing wrong.
Thanks for your time and keep up the good work.

Not sure if you have the burner ring in correctly. Did you visit the
Dickinson website? www.dickinsonmarine.com
You can contact them with questions, they have an FAQ section and you can
download a manual for the stove.