Lighting pellets

[chrisasst]

I am out of gel and sanitizer, what else can I use to light these pellets.
And my blow torch won't friging lite.
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[jackman]

I use a propane torch.

 

[chrisasst]

I use a propane torch.

Haha. Just edited my post. Dang torch don't lite either.


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[Mt Bob]

some hand sanitizers burn

 

[Mt Bob]

alcohol

 

[Mt Bob]

pringles

 

[rich2500]

Rub 2 pellets together.

 

[gfreek]

Propane torch. May take a few minutes but will work..

 

[shtrdave]

vaseline soaked cotton balls work well. have used a bit of cooking oil on some newspaper also. trick is to not use to many pellets.

 

[Bioburner]

WD-40 sprayed on some pellets and wrapped in some newspaper with a squirt on the paper gets things warmed up pretty good. Most households have far more flammable things than one thinks. Liquer cabinet with anything over 140 proof? After shave, oh yea, feel the burn. Old candles melted into some pine shavings.

 

[Dr.Faustus]

in a pinch ive used rubbing alcohol. I have an auto igniter but it takes so long i usually put a handful of pellets in the burn pot, hold the mapp gas torch on them, count to 10 and lit.

 

[DneprDave]

Charcoal lighter fluid squirted on a handful of pellets.

I have also made my own starters out of egg carton cups filled with sawdust and paraffin wax.

 

[sportbikerider78]

Most households have far more flammable things than one thinks

I guess we have never met!

 

[jp99]

I've tried a method using kerosene - similar to charcoal lighter fluid. I've soaked the pellets for 15 minutes in it, then strained them out and put them in the fire pot. Starts up and they'll burn fine. It's faster than starter gel or hand sanitizer.

 

[womaus]

Liquor cabinet with anything over 140 proof?

Sacrilege! I'd rather freeze to death!

 

[pete7713]

Sacrilege! I'd rather freeze to death!

no danger of you freezing with that antifreeze flowing through your veins

 

[Bioburner]

I've tried a method using kerosene - similar to charcoal lighter fluid. I've soaked the pellets for 15 minutes in it, then strained them out and put them in the fire pot. Starts up and they'll burn fine. It's faster than starter gel or hand sanitizer.

No need to soak them at all. I used the method for when I was servicing corn stoves. Just enough fuel to wet the pellets. A tablespoon is about enough to treat a cup. I carried them ready to go and could get the stove up and ready to fine tune in very short order BUT the use of flammable liquids in a warm or hot stove is a big hazard. Fuel oil, kerosene, lamp oil(citronella torch fuel is my favorite) are about the same thing