Performer Gas Starter


 
I've cleaned lots of Performers, never had to buy a new igniter unless it was a newer battery powered one where the button was broke in half.

Most of the time all you have to do is clean the solenoid end of the igniter that's inside the burner tube. It usually gets filled with dust or cobwebs. Just stick a bottle cleaner brush down the burner tube, then blow some air through it.
 
What Kyle said but I have also had to take it apart and use some sand paper or file on the spots where the spark jumps.
 
I am looking to add a gas assist to mine from scratch. I know there was a thread on a few sites but just wondering if anyone has bought the parts to do it from scratch.

thanks!
 
I have been lucking enough to pick up two Performer's one,black,and one Sage Blue both gas assit all I had to do was a good cleaning and some minor touch ups. I love a good Performer.
 
Personally and of course someone has done it before and I have read that thread previously not sure its worth the effort nor the cost and of course skill is needed. I really think that unless you got a great deal on a performer without it you would be better off selling it and finding a used one that has the gas assist. Many opinions on how valuable the gas assist is and I have one and to me its a must, use it everytime using the performer have a UDS smoker so I use the performer to get my chimney going also when I am smoking stuff.

But you can achieve the same thing with Weber cubes I assume which I have never used. The newspaper thing never worked for me with the ash when you picked it up to dump the charcoal flying everywhere although when I used it I would do it on a piece of flagstone so at least the ash was not in my cooker.
 
I've done it a couple times and don't really recommend it, especially on a 22". Just find a used one on Marketplace that already has gas on it.

The template Joel posted works great
 
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