Set the boat up next to the garden pond for some sea trials...
Nice roar on light off and then a minute later --- big drop in the "hiss and roar" -- plugged orifice.
My decision to extend my forward deck house wall to allow for reorienting the burner was wise. Pretty simple to get to it, but...
Clearly a plugged orifice, no light through the pinhole. After cooling, I blew through it backwards, I could see light now but there seemed to be a bit of fuzz visible. After finding a small but not to small piece of copper wire from some stranded wires -- I didn't want to enlarge the hole -- I removed the orifice piece and I probed quite deeply the hole, but I can still see the fuzz.
Decided to give it another go regardless but every time I tried to light off, I just got a very impressive flame at the top of the chimney.
I need to pickup a gas grill lighter, I went through 2 dozen matches and couldn't get the crack the valve open and light the match (or vice versa) timing quite right. Must have been lucky in the past.
Well, I've used up my play time. Back to chores.
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