I don't know if a 1965 has the same stove/oven, but if so I'd be happy to
relay the info from my manual. Only catch is it'll have to wait a day or
two I'm kinda busy these days. E-mail off list if you want me to send
something.
Jodi
1965 Caravel
At 07:28 PM 4/13/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>I've had my hike (and then some). I find NO provision on the oven knob
>in my '68 Caravel for a pilot position. The first position is 140 the
>last position is B for broil. There is nothing in my '68 owner's manual
>about the Caravel oven.
>
>I have no experience with gas ovens, my mother threw out a perfectly
>good gas/wood range in the 40s because she grew tired of picking the
>oven door off the opposite wall of the kitchen and growing eyebrows from
>having difficulties lighting that oven. She went to electric that early.
>My grandmother used that range with wood for the next 25 or 30 years.
>
>I didn't see a pilot valve in my oven. There has to be a pilot to allow
>the thermostat to cycle the main burner to control oven temperature.
>
>With my lack of old fashioned gas oven experience, I wasn't interested
>in experimenting.
>
>I suspect that the drill is something like this:
>
>1. turn on the gas at the LP tank(s).
>2. with a match or other near continuous ignitor near a surface burner
>turn on that burner and keep trying until it burns well. That's to clear
>air from the propane lines.
>3. Turn OFF all surface burners (in case of slow oven ignition that
>vents combustible gas).
>4. With a match or other near continuos ignitor near the oven burner,
>turn the oven on to its lowest setting. Keep the ignition source in the
>oven at the burner until the burner and pilot are lit and burning
>evenly.
>5. There appears to be no thermocouple safety valve (though I didn't
>test for one) so one needs to be sure to turn off the oven control and
>vent the oven and Caravel thoroughly if the oven goes out. Don't switch
>any electric lights, or smoke if that happens.
>
>Me, I think I'll hunt up a stove top oven and use that over a burner to
>bake if I can't accomplish adequate eats in a skillet and small sauce
>pan.
>
>A modern cook top with automatic electronic ignition, if one can be
>found that small, may be a good investment in safety.
>
>I do have a slightly larger stove without pilot in my rotting SOB. I may
>have a book on its range here somewhere, but I've not seen that book in
>a long time. I've not used its oven either, though I can see by the
>patterns in the aluminum skin outside the oven that it did a big turkey
>once and nearly burned the trailer in the process.
>
>Gerald J.
>
>
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