this must be a good contender for Stupid Question of the Week... but googling isn't helping much so I thought I'd ask.
I've got an old Kenyon rv propane stove on the boat -- maybe 15, 20 years old at a guess? I have never used the oven, but today on a whim I thought I'd see if it works. I've never used a propane oven before (only a dutch oven on a cooktop) so this is new territory. I managed to light the pilot, far in the back of the oven. it burned a steady blue. ahead of the pilot, running fore and aft (the oven faces fwd in the galley) is a steel tube with fine holes in a long row down each side -- presumably the burner. I expected this to catch, as with a shoreside gas oven, with a "whoomp", and burn at an intensity regulated by the knob on the oven control panel. but... the pilot stays lit but the burner never lights. if I hold a match or a cig lighter to it, I get little noisy bursts of blue flame, but it never "catches" and I don't really want to leave the gas turned on with no flame. maybe there is just a lot of air in the pipes from long disuse? maybe the fine holes in the burner are plugged with dirt or rust? or maybe my tank is getting empty and the pressure isn't sufficient to fill the big burner tube? or do I need to wait for some kind of thermo valve to open fully? or maybe it's just broken? I spent about 3 or 4 minutes repeatedly tickling it with a cig lighter, getting little gusts of flickering blue flame along the tube but no steady burn. I think the little gusts were getting stronger and longer over time, but very slowly. anyway I wanted to check with others who have similar brute-simple propane ovens to see if I really am supposed to leave the gas on for some period of time and hope that it will self-light? the thought of all that propane leaking away into the bilge while I wait is not a happy one, so for now I have turned it off again, pending some advice from someone who has used one for a few years :-) had a whim to do some baking, but maybe not eh? de _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
