What are you using to start the fire?

[Oregonk5]

Curious to see how others get their stoves going?

I've used the gel and it leaves a big crusty mess. Have had the best luck with fire starting pellets.

How do you get the stove going?

 

[akboom]

sometimes if I don't feel like using the auto igniter I use a fat boy torch and torch the pellets in the burn pot till they are glowing good then close the door good to go.

 

[Woody1911a1]

the "ON" button

 

[Bioburner]

Shove the torch into a pile of pellets and let burn till a ball of pellets are glowing good(about 40 sec)and shut the door and let the exaust fan erupt the pile just like a igniter.

 

[Mark_ms]

In a container I put a small amount of lamp oil soak what I need then place them in firepot then light..

 

[CenterTree]

the "ON" button

Me too.

I am confused by this thread. Why are some people apparently "manually" starting their pellet stoves?
I just assumed they all had auto igniters,,,,no???

 

[Bioburner]

P38 is still a manual light stove. A lot of older stoves are manual light. Good practice for if igniter goes out and you still need heat.

 

[exoilburner]

Me too.

I am confused by this thread. Why are some people apparently "manually" starting their pellet stoves?
I just assumed they all had auto igniters,,,,no???

Igniter causes too much smoke in the neighborhood. Manual start with a torch causes very little smoke. Manual start keeps pellet burner burning instead of continually going out and restarting. That's my preference others may see it different.

 

[glenc0322]

the "ON" button

I agree with Woody just turn it on and away she goes

Igniter causes too much smoke in the neighborhood. Manual start with a torch causes very little smoke. Manual start keeps pellet burner burning instead of continually going out and restarting. That's my preference others may see it different.

your stove smokes that much ? and no one has wood stoves in your neighborhood? they put off more smoke then your pellet stove

 

[P38X2]

Usually a torch. Sometimes that other lazy method.

 

[Bob Sorjanen]

hand sanitizer

 

[Mark_ms]

Me too.

I am confused by this thread. Why are some people apparently "manually" starting their pellet stoves?
I just assumed they all had auto igniters,,,,no???

My Integra is a 1992 model an igniter was an option, the way my wife looks at it, it is one more thing to break.

 

[boosted3g]

Hand sanitizer.

 

[CenterTree]

Igniter causes too much smoke in the neighborhood. Manual start with a torch causes very little smoke. Manual start keeps pellet burner burning instead of continually going out and restarting. That's my preference others may see it different.

your stove smokes that much ? and no one has wood stoves in your neighborhood? they put off more smoke then your pellet stove

OK, I can see that. Using the igniter, my stove will "smoulder" for several minutes until it reaches that breaking point and then POOF.... out the flue flows a big ole batch of smoke. But only for a short time then it dissipates and no one would even know there was a stove running.

The initial cloud does make a scene though.

 

[Woody1911a1]

Igniter causes too much smoke in the neighborhood. .

that why i bought a pellet grill too that's at ground level and brings the firemen with forks and bibs

 

[bbfarm]

The on button also

 

[newf lover]

My sister's ignitor wasn't working (turned out to be dirty stove) and because she had nothing else in the house, used rubbing alcohol. Put pellets in a can, poured it on, then poured it in the burn pot. It worked.

 

[slvrblkk]

(broken image removed)

 

[gfreek]

Propane torch, starting gel,, or hand sanitizer

 

[rayttt]

A gallon can of Denatured alcohol from HD.
Its lasted me since I got the stove in 2008

Have a squirt bottle and fill burn pot with 3 handfuls of pellets..
Drench pellets in burn pot..lite and close. Turn on stove.

 

[lefty]

hey love the ideas on the hand sanitizer, but the denatured alcohol sounds like the cheapest bet..?

 

[Bioburner]

hey love the ideas on the hand sanitizer, but the denatured alcohol sounds like the cheapest bet..?

Hand sanitizer comes on sale now that the cold and flu season is here. Bought some last year for $2 a quart.

 

[rayttt]

it cost about 15 bucks for the gallon can.
And I have a pour bottle with it that I squirt a small stream of alochol..only need a couple of second spray.
Ignite close the stove and turn it on and walk away.

I have probably used 2/3rds of the gallon so far.
I also have a P38 Harman that I dont have to shutdown to clean but one a month to month and a half.
So I dont have to ignite it much for the rest of the winter.

 

[rayttt]

I use a pour bottle something like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Plastic-Cylin...8&qid=1384741387&sr=8-32&keywords=pour+bottle

 

[lefty]

isnt the hand sanitizer like a gel how would you spray it at isn't it a gel ...up/ or over here in p.e.I it is anyway