LOL. My pipe gasifier did that for me. I looked at @k_vanlooken’s Some school Thailand thread and made my old Briggs geni run the very first time. I had no blower of any kind. I just used the suction from the engine. That old time mixture screw allowed me to wean it off liquid fuel as the gas started to come in. I came away feeling that I couldn’t miss. But I realized later that one MUST have at least 24 inches of char above the nozzle for it to work. As @KristijanL says 1/8-3/4 inch char works best, but I started with 1/2- 1-1/2 and it worked. I only got ~20 minutes run time at first, but as I screened out fines and added fresh char to the used, smaller pieces run times got a little longer.
Rindert
P.S. I had I cyclone filter on there at first but got rid of it later. Not needed.
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