As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Last autumn I was talking to someone who had apartments and had dumped off a gas stove at JYG's. He told me to check for mice before lighting a stove so it did not catch on fire.
I thought that was an odd thing, as how hard could it be to keep mice dead, as there are things like poison.
Enter the vermin winter of satan, and I could not keep ahead of the mice.
It got so bad that they did get into our propane stove. It worked fine until this spring as we attempted to bake bread and I noticed a yellow flame in the burner and soot in the oven.
Leaving that to fix itself as I had a shit load of things to do, I left it until June, when it was time to get his oven running, or move more shit out and see if the replacement would work that we picked up.
I did some research as I really do not know allot about gas stoves, unless it is to leave them alone. In reading about them the Holy Ghost immediately told me the problem in, there is an air intake on these burners, and I knew that if it was clogged, the flame would be yellow and deprived of oxygen, as I knew that the burner holes were all open as I could see that when it was running.
So I open the oven up, and I don't see an air intake. See lots of mouse stuffing and vacuum all of that out, and get to looking and see I can get the burner out easy, and I see there is this plate with a wing nut on it, that looks promising for more discoveries. I open that plate up, and there is the air intake. A mouse has stuffed a piece of oven stuffing into it.
I vacuum it all out. See a mouse peeking at me through a hole, try to kill it with a screwdriver jab, and go onto carefully seeing if the oven will light or blow up. It lights, it runs, it cycles and it turns off.
There really is not allot to gas stoves. There is the burner, the thermostat, the fuel pipe, the pilot light and the air intake which is on the end of the burner. There are adjustment intakes on stove top burners, but I saw none on this one and I was not in there to screw around doing that.
The oven now runs quieter than ever. People really should familiarize themselves with their appliances. I do not recommend screwing around with thermostats as I stay away from that stuff, but it would have cost 150 bucks to have a guy come out (if they will come now as they are really bastards now) and take off a wingnut and clean out the oven which is what I did for free.
They charge way to much for this shit. I have no idea if there are books on this stuff, but there are probably tutorials on Gaytube which people should familiarize themselves with.
I thanked God, was exceedingly happy that something worked the first time in dealing with it, and I did not have to have days of doing things and exhausting myself again. Is much better to work at a pace as I probably will replace this oven with the replacement I got, but I just have too much other pressing things to do right now.
Nuff Said
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