Best gas burner to buy?

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Permalink Reply by Raffe on June 7, 2011 at 3:35pm

Jo, are you able to give a ball-park estimate of how much one of the 10-tip rambo burners will cost? I am looking to get a burner soonish and may well wait for one of these.

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Permalink Reply by JoKing on June 7, 2011 at 3:49pm

From memory they were around $150 - $160... I can't fully remember now. The price now will depend on differing exchange rates etc.

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Permalink Reply by Raffe on June 7, 2011 at 4:01pm

Sweet, thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Sam on July 2, 2011 at 5:10pm

I'd be keen for a rambo burner... Let me know if you get some in.

 

I have a 34l stainless steel pot, and a 3-ring burner from Mitre 10. I have trouble maintaining a rolling boil using this setup. 

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Permalink Reply by Christian on July 2, 2011 at 6:23pm

I was having trouble with my 3-ring burner. Tuned out to be my regulator that was getting past it - might be worth looking into. I now get a great boil.

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Permalink Reply by David Wood on July 2, 2011 at 8:58pm

I have the same burner and it will boil my 50L keg. I turn it down to maintain the boil.

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Permalink Reply by Pilgrim on July 3, 2011 at 11:37am

I have a 3 ring Campmaster burner (the green one) and was having trouble with it. I did the following:

1) I took the injector assembly off and cleaned out the the inlet tubes to the 3 burners. I got a lot of scale and foundry sand out of these tubes. I had a long taper reamer and this helped smooth out the casting. There were a lot of burs inside and these disturb the gas flow causing turbulance which slows it down and causes incomplete combustion.

2) the smallest ring would not burn clean (yellow flame) and so I took the adjustment ring off altogether and then it burmed correcly (blue flame).

This brought my 56ltr pot up to the boil ok but when I went to an 82ltr pot it took forever to bring a 60ltr brew up to the boil. It would do it, but it took ages. So:

3) I fitted an adjustable regulator and cranked the pressure up.

It now burns nice and clean and brings 60litres up to the boil in no time at all.

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Permalink Reply by hayden on July 8, 2011 at 9:54pm

I'd be keen if anyone wants to purchase together for cheaper freight.

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Permalink Reply by Ralph on July 8, 2011 at 10:00pm

Freight is about $64 for 1 x mongolian 23 jet.

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Permalink Reply by hayden on July 8, 2011 at 10:21pm

Thanks ralph, just email them to get a quote for multiple units.

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Arron on July 9, 2011 at 7:26am

What volume are you planning to boil?  The 23 jet burner is around 150MJ/h and will be way oversized for 50litres. 

 

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Permalink Reply by hayden on July 9, 2011 at 1:58pm

On second thoughts, I'd probably get the italian spiral burner as they are supposedily more adjustable heatwise? I was thinking a 10 tip unit for 23 litre batches.

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