HeatMate HMN-110 Kerosene Heater

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Our kerosene heater isn’t burning cleanly, won’t extinguish quickly, and doesn’t seem to light very well. I mess around with trying to trim the wick, eventually replace it, and then make a few adjustments to it. Replacement wicks were bought at Tractor Supply for about 1/3 of the cost of Amazon!

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@smky143 3 месяца назад

I have seen these come new from the factory with the wick installed too high also causing the large orange bad flame out the top even with adjusting the lever to the low side. Its pretty easy to reinstall the wicks though, once you have done it once it takes about 5 min.

@dannypresson4815 6 месяцев назад

Informative video. Thank you. I'll probably will be using it as a guide soon. I have the same heater new and had the same initial flame problem. The yellow flame rose out the top of the chimney on one side even w the wick low. I exchanged the heater for another of the same model. Haven't tried it out yet.

@chriskoran836 6 месяцев назад

My apologies for not including more of the disassembly details. The heater is my father-in-law’s and I mainly filmed the steps I took in order for him to be able see what I did. He had already taken it apart once so including those steps seemed duplicative. If you have any questions about those steps feel free to ask and I’ll type them out real quick.

@AlkaiserNeo 6 месяцев назад

Hey Danny. Same issue. We have two HeatMate HMN-110s and one RedStone - 10,000 BTU Radiant Kerosene Heater. They're pretty much identical. Everything looks the same. Only difference is the RedStone is a black. The other two HMN-110s are several years old and I've changed the wicks on all of them. They all seem to have that issue where the yellow flame is sticking up out of one side of the chimney. I think it does that because the wick is a little high on one side and the other side is lower. But I've tried my best to get it leveled but still I get this issue. When I first bought the RedStone, the flame never poked out of the chimney because the factory installed the wick. It ran flawlessly. I also noticed that it doesn't matter if you install the wick kind of low or high, the chimney always looks the same when it's fully lit. I am only able to turn it down only a fraction of the way but it doesn't really help. On one of the HMN-110s, the lever was acting kid of funny and I noticed that if I held the lever while lifting the tank up a bit and then dropping the tank back down, I was fully able to adjust the height of the flame as I wished. No idea why it was acting like that but now it's back to acting normally. But my question is, what can I stick just above the lever to keep it in place while I change the tank? I have thought about sticking puddy in there to hold it down but what would you recommend?

@dannypresson4815 6 месяцев назад

@@AlkaiserNeo thank you for that information. I haven't yet set up the new one but I suspect that I'll have the same problem. Why would Redstone have this issue when they all come from the same place? I'll have to tinker w it a while. A new anything should work right out of the box. I wish I had more to offer but if I find some useful info I'll share it.

@thisisyourcaptainspeaking2259 5 месяцев назад

Jiggle the chimney and the oem wicks are too thin (chinsy) for good burn control. An aftermarket replacement wick should be slightly thicker and fit the inner draft tube much better and still slide up/down without binding.

@dannypresson4815 5 месяцев назад

@@AlkaiserNeook I have a springlike day so I'm dealing w this heater. I fired it up and got the same yellow over flame as before. I pushed the lever up and the flame reduced to perhaps normal but then I accidentally shut the heater off. I'll do a restart in a bit.

@thisisyourcaptainspeaking2259 5 месяцев назад

This particular heater is quite good, the tall chimney impresses me. I see you removed the ignitor and left the hole open. This will be a huge air leak.

@melchristian8876 5 месяцев назад

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@greghall_The_TechEditor 5 месяцев назад

The igniter should not be parting the wick. This causes an uneven burn. keep it away from the wick. KeroSun heaters always pivoted the igniter into the wick ONLY for ignition. The cheaper Chinese heaters are poorly designed so apparently the igniter has to be inside the wick to light. The air bleed holes are precisely matched to the burn for controlled air flow. Removing the igniter introduces too much extra air to the burn that causes the flame to go yellow and smoke. Whether the igniter is used or not, the hole must be closed off with either the igniter or something else to restore the correct air flow. You do not remove the chimney to start the heater. All that does is create a lot of smoke and causes carbon on the wick and catalytic converter. Tip the chimney backwards and light the wick. When lit, tilt the chimney forward and center it on the base. You should never have flames extending above the catalytic converter in the chimney. Only raise the wick until the entire catalytic converter is glowing red. This is the correct operating condition for a catalytic converter kerosene heater. The original wick is fine. Replace and remove fuel tank. Burn the heater until the fuel is used up. This cleans the wick. Then use a flat blade screwdriver to scrape the wick lands on each side of the wick to remove any carbon build up. Same with the bottom of the catalytic converter chimney perforated tubes.

@thisisyourcaptainspeaking2259 5 месяцев назад

Some (many?) Of these heaters were shipped with the wrong wick, it's way too thin and whimpy. Get a better wick before condeming this heater!

@dannypresson4815 5 месяцев назад

There are ppl on RU-vid saying to replace the original wick w a cotton wick and burn #2 diesel w a few oz 91 percent isopropyl alcohol. The uls diesel has less sulphur than k1. Any thoughts on this from anyone?

@thisisyourcaptainspeaking2259 5 месяцев назад

@@dannypresson4815 This might work if the cotton wick can survive the heat. I've never tried it because I already catch hell for burning kerosene in the house. Watch out for carbon monoxide and good luck finding a cotton wick. Old flame-spreader heaters like perfection heater used cotton wicks, not sure if anyone burned diesel in them. My experiment burning kerosene in a cotton-wicked oil lamp didn't go well, tons of soot and smell.

@greghall_The_TechEditor 5 месяцев назад

The sulfur level may be lower that US K1, but it still has injector pump lubricant that is being burnt that Kerosene does not contain.