Multi match club. Who's in?

I am humbled by your magnanimous gesture. Where else but on this board could you screw up and get membership in a premier club??

How did I miss this thread. The old Monticello sits cold as I listen to the Mr. Heater rattle away consuming ng to heat the place. Funny how I get tired at night and neglect to tend the firepot... also have a habit of letting the coal fire burn with too much air. The new smaller fire box still gets ash-bound if I don't tend to it and let the whole mass of coal get lit. I've built a couple of wood fires on top of the whole ash-bound mess and dropped the coal ash down through the ash grate as the wood fire catches. Then I can add coal and keep the fire going if I want to. Usually easier to just retrieve a few unburned lumps, dump the ash and clear the grate; and start over. I've been using "bum charcoal" - cut up pallets to start fires with. Always lots of nails left in the ash with this technique; so I toss the ash in the woods for future archaeologists to find. I saw a fitting you can get on Ebay to fill your disposable propane torch off your 20lb bar-b-Q tank, but too cheap to spend the $17. Took a barbeque tank regulator apart and might fit it to an old propane torch to accomplish the same thing. A little reluctant with that experiment...
I start a fresh fire with cardboard underneath wood, and stick the torch up through the grate from the ash door to light it.

i'll be in the multi-match (propane torch) club by wed or thurs. it's already 65* today and supposed to be just as warm tomorrow so i turned off the stoker this morning to save a few buckets.

this will give me a chance to try the kindling can method of lighting up!

[quote="mr1precision"
I'm sorry michaelanthony, you let that fire go out. You see, this club has standards and we can't raise them just for you. That fire had to go out because you did something wrong or had a failure. You are not in the club. Keep trying![/quote]
Give me time, give me time, eggsellent..( rolling hands )..eggsellent...

I've been running on one grate the last week, lost a bolt to the ash pan and must have dumped it, so the stove has been on the rag, gentle shakes but absolutely no poking. Well this morning I was a little eager ( yah know how it is when you first wake up ) and put the poker right too her and.......... killed it, now waiting too cool so I can clean out and replace the bolt.

I've had several more out fires in the last month due to high temps and low coal in the bin. I didnt want to brag but....

Well so far I'm still on my second match
I've been burning for about 7 weeks so far without mishap
I am planning a shut down for flue pipe cleaning here soon though....

Power outage last weekend 36 hours, who knew generator would run out of gas once, and shutting Coal-trol down while refrigerator was getting happy with new power source the fire would go out Nothing like REALLY SICK bride waking you up at 5 AM and saying fire is out
One match club is over rated

2001Sierra wrote:Power outage last weekend 36 hours, who knew generator would run out of gas once, and shutting Coal-trol down while refrigerator was getting happy with new power source the fire would go out Nothing like REALLY SICK bride waking you up at 5 AM and saying fire is out
One match club is over rated

WELCOME TO THE DARK SIDE!

I've been out of the one match club since I shut down in late October because of warm temps. I'll be shutting the stove down in a few days to do some maintenance. I've got those anti-explosion louvre's to put in and the motor on my draft inducer just went; there's a reason why they tell you to mount it level...it's so it doesn't cook the bearing in it...which is exactly what I did, so I need to shut down to replace that.

matches are for patient people. the blow torch + sterno gel = several matches.