I was helping a new family this past weekend and we had 2 igniter failures. They had recently bought a pack of A8-3 at Hobby Lobby, with the new gray igniters. I didn't pay so much attention at first but the way the igniters are made there is a bit of bridge wire sticking out each side as you can see in the photo below. When you push this igniter into the nozzle these little bits squeeze the 2 wires in and they can touch inside the nozzle at or below the plastic plug. If you do a lot of monkeying with these igniters to prevent that you run the risk of breaking the bridge wire. I pulled out my box of spare igniters and looked. Some of my gray igniters have this, some don't. I have a few of the black igniters and they don't have this. I don't have any of the white igniters left.
I was thinking rather than messing with the igniters to try to remove this bit of bridge wire, or trying to bend the wires after installation of the igniter, maybe it would be more effective to paint one of the wires just above the gray coating to provide some insulation then it doesn't matter if they touch or not. Any other ideas:
I was thinking rather than messing with the igniters to try to remove this bit of bridge wire, or trying to bend the wires after installation of the igniter, maybe it would be more effective to paint one of the wires just above the gray coating to provide some insulation then it doesn't matter if they touch or not. Any other ideas: