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The burner
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More to the burner than meets the eye was going to make one using a copper end cap the ones i have are too small the next size too big so i more or less fabricated one was aiming to make one just holding 7mils as it turned out this one holds about 12mls far too big but i`m stuck with it. The wick holder you can see is longer than the tank i read somewhere that the fuel level in the tank should be below the level of the wick holder now when the tank is filled with 5mls of meths it does not reach half way i could see that when i was checking for leaks you could hardly see anything in the wick holder so i have really made a mistake regarding sizes. Now hears the rub with 5mls of meths it ran for 20mins YES 20mins and would like to hear from anyone who knows about burners why this should have happened the flame at first was large then at the end flame smaller but would still burn your hand