24″ GE pilotless small gas stove in the aux. kitchen. Bought new about (16) years ago. All (4) burners (piezo ignite) work fine.
Electric (glow bar) ignition for the oven. From cold, thermostat in the temperature setting dial goes “tick” when rotated, like it’s supposed to; strip starts to glow; gas comes on, no problem.
This will work for a couple of times, the gas cycling on and off to maintain the setpoint temperature. After 15-20 minutes (as the case gets hot?), the burner will no longer come on. The thermostatic dial still makes the little “tick” sound as it rotates back and forth over the inside temperature number, but no glow strip action.
After it cools for a few hours, the same thing all over again.
I’m guessing there’s an overtemp sensor or thermister somewhere that’s gotten old? Any idea where to start looking?
Can’t find the manual.
Forrest – doing honeydoos on vacation
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Mc D ,
I'm no expert but had a similar problem , not exactly the same but it could be the electric ignighter / glow bar . What I did was swap the one from the broiler just to see if that solved the problem , mine worked fine so I only replaced the oven one . It only takes a few minutes to swap it out .
good luck dusty
Hmm - good thought. This tiny oven only has one gas bar - but the glow strip does look easy to replace - maybe I can figure out how to check it.
Forrest
There is a wiper in the knob, like a rheostat or potentiometer, clean out the cat fur and grease.
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Sphere -
Thanks for that approach. I was convinced that because I could hear the <click> when I turned the oven temperature dial that the switch was working.
Anyway, I measured voltage across the microswitch within the dial temperature control mechanism. 120 V when off, but not ALWAYS dropping to zero when I rotated the knob, though I could hear the <click> of the microswitch toggle leaf snapping closed every time - was worse when the oven was hot. Jumped the wires; oven came on fine every time I connected them.
Found the switch assembly with thermal sensor online; like $70. Figured I'd at least pull apart the microswitch iffin' I'ze gonna' replace it. Found that the <click> indeed "made" the contacts, but that there was years of carbon between them. I could push the contacts tighter, and make the electrical connection, but the little internal snap spring (like a hair barrette) wouldn't always push hard enough.
Cut a strip of 400-grit paper, couple passes over each side, works good as new.
Now the maid has a working range.
If we just had a maid.
In the little outfit.
Forrest
Cool!
er...Warm!
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You figger someone has been baking cats in there?
He mighta got ona tear with his "Poetry Reading" drinking buddy and thought they were fireing clay tiles ...or something.
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