Hothead problem

[febgirl]

Hi

Can you please help me.

I got a new cylinder of Propane yesterday and couldn't get the torch to light.  I then read everything I could find here and tonight I used the tinfoil over the holes trick and the torch lite.  I then slowly moved the foil away and after about 10 sec the torch goes out.  The propane is on full (screwed down) as this is the only way I could get any size of flame.  I normally would have my regulator on about 3/4.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

[Veebee]

Try turning the regulator up full, then just turn it back by a 1/4 turn. Should hopefully do the trick 

[★★Terri★★]

I recently got a new cylinder as well - it was my first replacement cylinder.  I found that for the first few times I had trouble lighting the gas - kept going out.  Just persevered and then it seemed to sort itself out and now it l ights mo problems at all.

[lyzzydee]

I am very new to this but I have found that I need everything on full to get it to light up, I had the same problems but once I switched to full it was fine.

[Redhotsal]

You need to wait for the cowling to get fully hot. If you remove the foil too quickly it'll go out. One of my hotheads is a real 'mare to light and I have to remove the foil very slowly - effectively just uncovering one hole at a time gradually. It has always been like this. But if you are patient it will stay lit. Don't have the pressure up too much either, it's the very pressure of the gas, combined with the air being sucked in through the holes in the cowling which knocks out the flame.

[febgirl]

Thanks everyone, I will try again tonight.

This is my third bottle of gas, so I thought I knew what I was doing, but no.