Pocketrocket maintenance question

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Viewing 12 posts - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) May 9, 2022 at 12:51 pm #3748836 BPL Member @dlkj83jdk3883ll

I bought an MSR Pocketrocket Deluxe. A curious cat, I immediately unscrewed the burner from the housing. Oops, wish I hadn’t done that. There’s a metal wire spike inside the housing, and a plastic tube stem coming down from the burner. Do I need to push the tube on to the wire before screwing the burner back on? Or just screw it back on normally? I’m also curious what the wire and tube are for? (I emailed MSR to ask, but no reply. And I can’t find any stove maintenance instructions or videos online — so i figured my pals at BPL would know the answer!)

May 9, 2022 at 1:20 pm #3748840 BPL Member @retiredjerry Locale: Oregon and Washington

That’s the wire to the piezo lighter If the wire doesn’t go into the tube, the lighter won’t work When you put the burner back on, make sure the wire goes into the tube

May 9, 2022 at 1:37 pm #3748842 BPL Member @dlkj83jdk3883ll excellent — thanks! May 9, 2022 at 2:21 pm #3748850 BPL Member @retiredjerry Locale: Oregon and Washington

I can think of a couple people that have had the same problem. Except I think it came from the factory that way. There are probably a lot of PR Deluxes with a broken piezo that are easily fixed

May 9, 2022 at 2:43 pm #3748851 BPL Member @jonfong Locale: FLAT CAT GEAR Mine broke, it doesn’t “click” when you depress the lever. It doesn’t do anything. Any ideas? May 9, 2022 at 3:48 pm #3748869 BPL Member @texasbb Locale: Pacific Northwest
Mine broke, it doesn’t “click” when you depress the lever. It doesn’t do anything. Any ideas?

My solution to piezo breakage has a perfect record: Never, ever buy a stove with a piezo starter. You’ll have to bring a lighter or matches anyway because the piezos are so unreliable, so just say no. That what you’re looking for? :-)

May 9, 2022 at 4:33 pm #3748871 BPL Member @jonfong Locale: FLAT CAT GEAR

Ha, Ha! I agree 100%. That being said, if someone had an idea on how to fix it there’s no downside to having it work again.

May 9, 2022 at 4:55 pm #3748879 BPL Member @retiredjerry Locale: Oregon and Washington

maybe you can buy a replacement piezo? Maybe unscrew the three allen screws, remove the top portion, and the piezo can be removed? The piezos on the PR Deluxe, and the Soto Windmaster have worked pretty reliably for me. When they work it’s convenient. Sometimes you have to click it a couple times. I think one of them stopped working, but then started working again. Yeah, you have to have a lighter as a backup. But they’ve worked 100s of times. Once I had to use a lighter, but if I had been more patient… If the piezo ever fails then I’ll have a stove that has to be manually lit. If the wind is blowing, I can put the pot with windscreen on the stove, then light with piezo. Otherwise, I’d have to light with lighter and quick put the stove on before it blows out.

May 10, 2022 at 8:53 am #3748958 BPL Member @texasbb Locale: Pacific Northwest
But they’ve worked 100s of times. Once I had to use a lighter, but if I had been more patient…

I must be doing something wrong. I’ve had a couple of piezo stoves, neither of which lasted more than a couple or three trips. Shoot, even my gas grill out on the deck quit piezoing after a year or so.