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Posted by andy on May 9, 2006, 8:43 am
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Hi folks. I would like to stop using wooden matches to light my gas
BBQ grill. My grill came with a little red button piezio? gizmo that
you push to light the grill. The "red button" worked for maybe two
seasons, and now I just use a match or three to light the grill.
I would like to make a device which mounts in the aluminum body of the
grill and uses a flint from a welding torch lighter and a wheel which
you spin by hand. (sort of like a cigarette lighter, but a little more
robust)
Maybe something like this already exists, but my Google searches have
bore no fruit.
anyone have any design ideas? I have acess to a lathe and a tig
welder, and other basic shop stuff.
One problem I can see is what happens to the flint after the grill
lights. Probably has to be retractable somehow.
Love to hear what you folks think
Thanks,
Andy
Lynn,MA
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Posted by Dave Hinz on May 9, 2006, 9:06 am
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> Hi folks. I would like to stop using wooden matches to light my gas
> BBQ grill. My grill came with a little red button piezio? gizmo that
> you push to light the grill. The "red button" worked for maybe two
> seasons, and now I just use a match or three to light the grill.
Just clean up the metal around where it wants to spark to. Rust doesn't
conduct as well. Give it a shiny spot and the spark will do what you
want.
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Posted by Pete C. on May 9, 2006, 10:15 am
Please log in for more thread options andy wrote:
>
> Hi folks. I would like to stop using wooden matches to light my gas
> BBQ grill. My grill came with a little red button piezio? gizmo that
> you push to light the grill. The "red button" worked for maybe two
> seasons, and now I just use a match or three to light the grill.
>
> I would like to make a device which mounts in the aluminum body of the
> grill and uses a flint from a welding torch lighter and a wheel which
> you spin by hand. (sort of like a cigarette lighter, but a little more
> robust)
>
> Maybe something like this already exists, but my Google searches have
> bore no fruit.
>
> anyone have any design ideas? I have acess to a lathe and a tig
> welder, and other basic shop stuff.
>
> One problem I can see is what happens to the flint after the grill
> lights. Probably has to be retractable somehow.
>
> Love to hear what you folks think
> Thanks,
> Andy
> Lynn,MA
Those piezo units *are* one of the most reliable lighters. Failures are
almost always damage to the wiring from the piezo unit to the spark
electrode or rust or other damage to the spark electrode.
Pete C.
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Posted by Steve B on May 9, 2006, 11:32 am
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> Hi folks. I would like to stop using wooden matches to light my gas
> BBQ grill. My grill came with a little red button piezio? gizmo that
> you push to light the grill. The "red button" worked for maybe two
> seasons, and now I just use a match or three to light the grill.
>
> I would like to make a device which mounts in the aluminum body of the
> grill and uses a flint from a welding torch lighter and a wheel which
> you spin by hand. (sort of like a cigarette lighter, but a little more
> robust)
>
> Maybe something like this already exists, but my Google searches have
> bore no fruit.
>
> anyone have any design ideas? I have acess to a lathe and a tig
> welder, and other basic shop stuff.
>
> One problem I can see is what happens to the flint after the grill
> lights. Probably has to be retractable somehow.
>
> Love to hear what you folks think
> Thanks,
> Andy
> Lynn,MA
>
I have a Vermont Castings, and it has worked first time every time for three
years now. For my others, I use a 99 cent store butane.
Steve
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Posted by Leo Lichtman on May 9, 2006, 11:56 am
Please log in for more thread options When the piezo-striker for my torch quits, I am always able to get it
sparking again by cleaning the soot away from the electrode. Any conductive
path will bleed off the 'lectricity.
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> BBQ grill. My grill came with a little red button piezio? gizmo that
> you push to light the grill. The "red button" worked for maybe two
> seasons, and now I just use a match or three to light the grill.