04-14-2008, 12:26 AM
Here's another place to look for the model no.
See if the top lifts up from around the burners, hinged at the back. My gas stove does. Model number is down there, next to the piping that goes to the burners.
Ditto on the igniter. Replaced mind again this year. Symptoms of failure were:
1. varying gas supplied the oven, sort of a fluff, fluff, fluff, about twice a second. Sometimes this made the top burners oscillate from full to, oh, 75% full, in the same rhythm.
2. it heated less and less, spent more time off than it should have.
Replacing the igniter is easy for anyone with a few basic tools and enough common sense to unplug the unit first. You do not have to handle any gas in order to replace the igniter. It's an electric controller for the gas valve, like the heat sensor on the pilot light of many gas heaters.
Cost of igniter: around $70. Cost of comparable new stove, $400 - $600.
See if the top lifts up from around the burners, hinged at the back. My gas stove does. Model number is down there, next to the piping that goes to the burners.
Ditto on the igniter. Replaced mind again this year. Symptoms of failure were:
1. varying gas supplied the oven, sort of a fluff, fluff, fluff, about twice a second. Sometimes this made the top burners oscillate from full to, oh, 75% full, in the same rhythm.
2. it heated less and less, spent more time off than it should have.
Replacing the igniter is easy for anyone with a few basic tools and enough common sense to unplug the unit first. You do not have to handle any gas in order to replace the igniter. It's an electric controller for the gas valve, like the heat sensor on the pilot light of many gas heaters.
Cost of igniter: around $70. Cost of comparable new stove, $400 - $600.