eamarquardt wrote:I'm confused. Fuel is dripping out of the mantle port when the valve is on Yes but stops when the valve is off? Correct again
When you go to start up a lantern, at first, there is no heat to vaporize the fuel in the generator. That makes sense. So the fuel must be heated to vaporize and not just vaporize due to pressure. I'm glad you clarified that, cause I figured it was all due to pressure So, you may get a bit of liquid out of the port where the mantle attaches rather than a fine mist or gas. Once you light the lantern the heat of the flame will heat up the generator and vaporize the fuel so that it's a gas, not liquid or mist, coming out of the manifold (or whatever the attachment point of the mantle is called). The whole point of the generator is to vaporize the liquid gasoline into a gas so it burns cleanly. So I may get a little liquid out at first?
Sooo, depending upon how much gas is coming out, it may be OK. If it's excessive there might be something amiss. The valve was on when I started pumping, so when I got to 45 or 50, it had been on for ??? 30 seconds ??? Rather than just on until ignited.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Gus
Wolffarmer wrote: If yours is a 275 and not a 275A and the valve is leaking it is probably the scherader valve in it. Randy
Mukilteo wrote:Sounds like you have the old style scherader valve.
I always pump up new to me lanterns to make sure they hold air and will turn on and hiss and turn off and stop hissing before adding fuel.
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