# brand New Stu. new member **URL:** http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/brand-new-stu-new-member/7755 **Category:** General Discussion **Created:** [March 25, 2024, 12:33pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/brand-new-stu-new-member/7755 "2024-03-25T12:33:31Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 56
### Author: ![r\_wesseling](http://forum.driveonwood.com/user_avatar/forum.driveonwood.com/r_wesseling/32/30940_2.png) [@r\_wesseling](http://forum.driveonwood.com/u/r_wesseling) #### Post date: [April 11, 2024, 5:06pm UTC](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/brand-new-stu-new-member/7755/56 "2024-04-11T17:06:55Z")
> [@blazing.stoves](#): > > must remain to appear competent haha. LOL. My pipe gasifier did that for me. I looked at @k_vanlooken’s [Some school Thailand](https://forum.driveonwood.com/t/some-school-in-thailand/4372) 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. --- _[View the full topic](http://forum.driveonwood.com/t/brand-new-stu-new-member/7755)._