[C38] CNG in the SF Bay area

[Tom T.]

What would happen if you used LP instead of CNG?

I've converted many LP appliances to work on Natural Gas and vice versa and I'm wondering if a similar conversion would work on CNG to LP.  With my other conversions, it was just a matter of changing jet sizes, going to larger jets for LP to Natural gas and smaller jets for going from Natural Gas to LP.

In all cases, I just kept changing the jet size and mixture collar until I got a blue flame with no yellow.  A touch of solder on a jet will make it easy to drill to any smaller size you may so you won't need to buy jets.  Don't worry about the solder melting in use, it stays very cool with the gas going through it, even if the jet is very near the flame.

Most good hardware stores sell the tiny drill sets with drill holders that have a chuck collar so you can hand drill the jets held in a vice very easily.

I've never worked with CNG so I don't know if you need a smaller or larger jet size to an LP conversion but if it's close, you may  get away with only adjusting the air mixture collar to get a blue flame but my experience has been it's a combination of the jet size and mixture collar.

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Good luck,

Tom Troncalli
The Renata #95
St. Pete, Fla



----- Original Message ----- 
From: george suppes 
To: Listserve at catalina38.org
Sent: 2/13/2006 7:58:25 AM 
Subject: [C38] CNG in the SF Bay area


Does anyone still use thier CNG stove around San Francisco?  I have noticed several boats in the area.  I wondered if anone knew where to get the CNG tanks refilled?
Thanks,
George Suppes
Complete Abandon #111


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