I smell Propane. Oven thermocouple shot?
I have been on the road since Nov.12 and so along with that comes the usual stuff - cooking and using things in the TT. I use my oven often to bake fish & chicken for dinner. So I lit the pilot lig...
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DryCamper11 wrote:Chris Bryant wrote:
On most of those mercury safety systems you do have to push to turn from the off position, but that is a simple mechanical lock to keep the knob from being bumped to the pilot on position, so you can push the knob in and it will move, it just doesn't do anything other than pass the lock.
Got it. From reading his post, I thought he had an actual separate button that had to be pressed before lighting the pilot.
I was pushing the same button / knob that you turn for the oven pilot and temperature setting.
Yes it has a lock that you have to push in to turn. I was thinking it is the same as one you have to push to light the pilot in a conventional hot water tank or similar. I just assumed that I was pushing to feed gas for the pilot until the non existent thermocouple held the flow.
