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I am familiar with the older heaters and the sparkplugs.
What is an ignitor?

Here's mine-
http://cart32hosting.com/estore/temp...=010780&pid=87

In geberal they are a very fragile 'glow plug'. They work fine in
gas cookstoves. If you never intended to move the heater it might
make sense but I don't know what they were thinking to put it in a
portable heater.

Do you know any websites that have a picture. I
guess I never knew they changed them. In my opinion, I have never had
much luck with ANY of those torpedo heaters. It seems like they need
constant repairs, and when they do work, they stink up the whole
garage.

My dad had one 30 yrs ago. [might still have it] As soon as you
could smell it, it was time to adjust the air mixture. If you
waited too long the [$1] plug would foul & you'd swap it with the
spare-- then clean the plug and have it ready for next time.

That's what makes no sense to me. They replaced a [now] $5, sturdy,
reliable, fixable part with a $50 part that fails completely.

I finally gave up on mine and got myself a propane heater for
the garage. All I do is light it, and I get instant heat and no more
troubles.

I am looking at the new propane 'torpedoes'. About the same price as
I paid for this beast on sale-- twice the BTU's, and a spark plug
ignitor. If Reddy doesn't have a permanent fix for the
ignitor- I'll be buying a propane heater next time the ignitor fails.
And it sure won't be a Reddy.

Jim