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As I recall, some of the bottles felt maybe a little slick after 2 rinses. Perhaps I added too much Oxyclean. I'm leaning more towards this possibility.

I'll have to break out the old hand capper and experiment with a couple. Thanks.

Now this is a possibility. I delabeled the bottles using oxyclean free and rinsed twice as I usually do. Maybe I didn't get it all. Any possibility of saving it if this is the case?

I have a pretty nice capper that seems to operate smoothly, so I don't believe it's that, although possible. I did try some different caps in order to eliminate that possibility. I believe that it came out around 8-9%. White labs says it can tolerate 10-15%, so if my math was off by a percent...

This is what I did recently over the past few weeks.

Brewed an ale a few months ago. Cold crashed about a week @35 or so degrees. Bottles with 4.5 oz or so of corn sugar. 3 weeks later, beer is flat - just a slight psssft and absolutely no carbonation. Let sit for perhaps 3 months and still no carb. Thinking I somehow screwed up and forgot to...

Or for about the same price ($19.95 including shipping) you can get this one from tejassmokers.com - model number CVO250 I believe. I'm not sure if one is better than the other.

Are you looking for one like the one that I purchased?

I suppose it would be best to know the W/C coming out of my supply line. I believe that the BG12 produces 55k BTU's when operated on propane. Since NG produces 15% BTU's compared to propane, we are looking at 46,750 BTU's. Depending on supply pressure, according to these charts I should...

Yeah, maybe the lack of roar is throwing me off. I just need to test it and see what it does.

Not yet. I suppose that would be the best way to test it.

Any opinions on drilling out the orifice a little larger? I'm hesitating a bit because I of course don't want to screw it up by opening it up too much. The flame does not roar like it did with the propane. What do you think? Should I be happy with the flame that I have or open it up a...

Thanks! I'm still wondering if increasing the size of the orifice is going to give a better output. I've seen on here where others were drilling the hole out to 1/8" for natural gas but this may have been for the larger 10" burners. The one that I'm using is the 6". Right now its not...

Sounds like a good solution.

Here's a photo at night with the needle valve wide open. I was able to adjust the air to get a fairly nice blue flame that rises up in the shape of a cone to a height of about 6". How does this flame look? Do you think that the orifice needs to be opened up a little more?