Orange flames on my hob

[Tony Brooks]

I would describe that as a yellow flame but I suppose it might be orange before the lack of oxygen was enough to turn it yellow. As someone said I would usually associate orange with something else combusting in the flame like the dust mentioned. Anyway it certainly needs investigating.

[blackrose]

Does it still happen if you change gas bottles?

[Dinz]

Mine does this as me bottle nears empty.

[alan_fincher]

Mine does this as me bottle nears empty.

 

It shouldn't, I believe.

 

Operating with flames that show yellow / orange for anything more that a few transitory seconds is probably not good news at all.

 

The only thing I have ever noticed when a cylinder is about to run out is you get more of the smell of the stenching agent. I would not expect to get flames possibly indicating incomplete combustion.

Edited December 30, 2015 by alan_fincher

[Dinz]

Don't alter the fact that mine dose this.

New bottle on.

Blue flame.

[blackrose]

I don't know much about contaminants in gas bottles, but intuitively the first thing I would do is change the bottle and see if the problem persists. Do the simplest thing first in a process of elimination. Next I would change the regulator.

Edited December 30, 2015 by blackrose

[Loafer]

Maybe it was just a bad batch of gas?

[cereal tiller]

 

It shouldn't, I believe.

 

Operating with flames that show yellow / orange for anything more that a few transitory seconds is probably not good news at all.

 

The only thing I have ever noticed when a cylinder is about to run out is you get more of the smell of the stenching agent. I would not expect to get flames possibly indicating incomplete combustion.

That 'stench' is brought about by the addition of Mercaptan to the liqid gas when the Cylinders are refilled,maybe the concentration of it could rise over time?

 

CT

[tree monkey]

personally any flame on my..........oh hang on HOB not....

well that was an intriguing miss reading of a thread title

[the barnacle]

AKA 'the man drawer'.

 

Every home, boat and caravan should have one.

 

i have far to many.

[Phil Ambrose]

 

i have far to many.

Hey! how did you get hold of my drawer?.

Phil

[Loafer]

How do you lucky barstrds even get clearance for a drawer like that? I've tried for years, but the missus keeps 'tidying' it.

[system 4-50]

Drawer? Pah! Real men have shipping containers...

[Keeping Up]

That 'stench' is brought about by the addition of Mercaptan to the liqid gas when the Cylinders are refilled,maybe the concentration of it could rise over time?

 

CT

 

We had one a year ago that when we turned it on it filled the first bit of the pipe (which was shaped rather a U-bend beneath the regulator) with stenching agent. The minor side effect was that the flames on the hobs "hunted" in size at about one second intervals; the major effect was that the boiler controls got gummed up with stenching agent so the whole other had to be stripped down for cleaning.

[BruceinSanity]

That 'stench' is brought about by the addition of Mercaptan to the liqid gas when the Cylinders are refilled,maybe the concentration of it could rise over time?

 

CT

 

I think it's been said on here in a previous thread that the mercaptan is heavier than propane, so the last few litres of gas contain more stench. I'm not complaining, it's a handy guide to the cylinder getting low.

[RLWP]

(Think of Bunsen burner experiments when you did science).

 

How is connecting a bunsen burner up to a water tap help here?

 

Richard

[alan_fincher]

 

How is connecting a bunsen burner up to a water tap help here?

 

Richard

 

I thought for a moment you had got hold of one of my school stories, but that was connecting water tap to gas tap with no Bunsen burner involved.

 

(I still enjoy a regular drink with an old school friend who's father was amongst the large team of people set in by Eastern Gas to sort out the resulting problems. )

[David Mack]

 

I thought for a moment you had got hold of one of my school stories, but that was connecting water tap to gas tap with no Bunsen burner involved.

 

(I still enjoy a regular drink with an old school friend who's father was amongst the large team of people set in by Eastern Gas to sort out the resulting problems. )

 

We just used to ignite the flow of gas from the gas tap - no bunsen burner involved either.

[WotEver]

 

I thought for a moment you had got hold of one of my school stories, but that was connecting water tap to gas tap with no Bunsen burner involved.

 

(I still enjoy a regular drink with an old school friend who's father was amongst the large team of people set in by Eastern Gas to sort out the resulting problems. )

I had to scrub down the science benches every day for a month after doing that ?

[MtB]

 

We just used to ignite the flow of gas from the gas tap - no bunsen burner involved either.

 

 

I bet the flame was 'orange tipped', just like the OP!

[David Mack]

 

 

I bet the flame was 'orange tipped', just like the OP!

 

I seem to remember that the chap next to me's exercise book was 'black tipped' after that!

[bizzard]

There is acetylene in orange pith.

[Phil Ambrose]

There is acetylene in orange pith.

There is a gag there somewhere

Solar helmet, put it on, take it off

Pith on, Pith off

 

Phil

[bizzard]

There is a gag there somewhere

Solar helmet, put it on, take it off

Pith on, Pith off.

 

Phil

That was ''The Sun helmet'' the story by Spike Milligan.

[WotEver]

Also a sketch performed by Windsor Davies and Don Estelle.

 

The next line was "Where do you think you're going, you 'orrid little man?"