Hi folks. I would like to stop using wooden matches to light my gas BBQ grill. My grill came with a little red button piezio? gizmo that you push to light the grill. The "red button" worked for maybe two seasons, and now I just use a match or three to light the grill.
I would like to make a device which mounts in the aluminum body of the grill and uses a flint from a welding torch lighter and a wheel which you spin by hand. (sort of like a cigarette lighter, but a little more robust)
Maybe something like this already exists, but my Google searches have bore no fruit.
anyone have any design ideas? I have acess to a lathe and a tig welder, and other basic shop stuff.
One problem I can see is what happens to the flint after the grill lights. Probably has to be retractable somehow.
Love to hear what you folks think Thanks, Andy Lynn,MA