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So how do you start a Dickinson Newport cabin heater?
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:51:36 -0800, ray lunder wrote:
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. I have one and I really love it! It's built in good ol' Burnaby, BC. The manual is a bit hard to understand, but pretty good. Actually it's easier than it sounds. First, I agree that you might have the superheater upside-down. Apart from that, this is what's supposed to happen: First, the flame is very slow and lazy, coming directly from the fuel. Then the flame raises into the "body" below the ring. It will stay there for a few minutes, then there should be brief almost-white flames above the ring. Now, with the valve on 1 (or off) and the fan on, you probably won't get much more than this. So, at this point turn off the fan and put the valve on 1, and the flame should slowly change from yellow in the body to white above the ring. Once you've gotten there, you're basically "on". I usually run at 2, unless it's really cold, when I turn up to 3, and maybe add some fan. By the time you get to 4 you definitely need the fan, and we're talking WARM. As I said, try turning the superheater over... druid http://www.bcboatnet.org |
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