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Pilot light is heating the stovetop. Corvus13 08-19-2005
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Posted by Corvus13 on August 19, 2005, 6:38 pm


Hi,

I just purchased a Galaxy (Sears) gas stovetop (model 790.6000) which
has two central pilot lights between the burners. Everything functions
properly but I find when the stovetop is closed the proximity of the
pilot lights are such that the actual stovetop gets heated up quite
high with just the pilots going.

I've adjusted each of them to be the absolutely smallest that they can
be (in danger of going out with a light breeze) and it still has the
same effect. I cannot imagine this is correct.

The pilot cage itself has a small arm shield that raises above it I
imagine to take the heat of the flame should it get too high. I'm
wondering if these are the culprits and need to be bent downward
slightly in case they are touching or if there is something else that
can be done to remedy this.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Scott



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Posted by New & Improved - N/F John on August 20, 2005, 1:03 am


The stove will be warm or hot in some spots. This old tech. The electric
starters are not warm. Does your unit have sealed burners? I wonder if
they don't.

> Hi,
>
> I just purchased a Galaxy (Sears) gas stovetop (model 790.6000) which
> has two central pilot lights between the burners. Everything functions
> properly but I find when the stovetop is closed the proximity of the
> pilot lights are such that the actual stovetop gets heated up quite
> high with just the pilots going.
>
> I've adjusted each of them to be the absolutely smallest that they can
> be (in danger of going out with a light breeze) and it still has the
> same effect. I cannot imagine this is correct.
>
> The pilot cage itself has a small arm shield that raises above it I
> imagine to take the heat of the flame should it get too high. I'm
> wondering if these are the culprits and need to be bent downward
> slightly in case they are touching or if there is something else that
> can be done to remedy this.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> Scott
>




Posted by Corvus13 on August 19, 2005, 11:36 pm


Thank you both for your replies. I suppose it must be so. Its still
hard to believe this stove was designed such that the surface remains
painfully hot. The stove is actually brand new..I bought it a few
months ago because it was the only one under $1500 that fit into the
alcove of the original one (for some reason all reasonably priced
stoves must have a foot high backing whether theres a display in there
or not).

It is indeed an open burner unit.

Not that I'd expect you would but do happen to have an inkling as to
where I might find an inexpensive 40" high pilotless gas stove? My
exhaustive search produced only this one.

Thanks again,

Scott



New & Improved - N/F John wrote:
> The stove will be warm or hot in some spots. This old tech. The electric
> starters are not warm. Does your unit have sealed burners? I wonder if
> they don't.
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just purchased a Galaxy (Sears) gas stovetop (model 790.6000) which
> > has two central pilot lights between the burners. Everything functions
> > properly but I find when the stovetop is closed the proximity of the
> > pilot lights are such that the actual stovetop gets heated up quite
> > high with just the pilots going.
> >
> > I've adjusted each of them to be the absolutely smallest that they can
> > be (in danger of going out with a light breeze) and it still has the
> > same effect. I cannot imagine this is correct.
> >
> > The pilot cage itself has a small arm shield that raises above it I
> > imagine to take the heat of the flame should it get too high. I'm
> > wondering if these are the culprits and need to be bent downward
> > slightly in case they are touching or if there is something else that
> > can be done to remedy this.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Scott
> >



Posted by Tom S on August 20, 2005, 7:35 am


Here are several: http://tinyurl.com/7gagp

The 30" ranges start toward the bottom of the list, e.g.:
http://www.ajmadison.com/cgi-bin/ajmadison/FGF303CW.html

If you go to www.ajmadison.com you'll see an Appliance Finder
(it's in the middle of the page). In the Finder, click on Cooking,
then select "cooking ranges" in the category box, you can specify
a minimum and maximum height. I used 38" and 40 3/4" just as
an example.

> Thank you both for your replies. I suppose it must be so. Its still
> hard to believe this stove was designed such that the surface remains
> painfully hot. The stove is actually brand new..I bought it a few
> months ago because it was the only one under $1500 that fit into the
> alcove of the original one (for some reason all reasonably priced
> stoves must have a foot high backing whether theres a display in there
> or not).
>
> It is indeed an open burner unit.
>
> Not that I'd expect you would but do happen to have an inkling as to
> where I might find an inexpensive 40" high pilotless gas stove? My
> exhaustive search produced only this one.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Scott
>
>
>
> New & Improved - N/F John wrote:
> > The stove will be warm or hot in some spots. This old tech. The electric
> > starters are not warm. Does your unit have sealed burners? I wonder if
> > they don't.
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I just purchased a Galaxy (Sears) gas stovetop (model 790.6000) which
> > > has two central pilot lights between the burners. Everything functions
> > > properly but I find when the stovetop is closed the proximity of the
> > > pilot lights are such that the actual stovetop gets heated up quite
> > > high with just the pilots going.
> > >
> > > I've adjusted each of them to be the absolutely smallest that they can
> > > be (in danger of going out with a light breeze) and it still has the
> > > same effect. I cannot imagine this is correct.
> > >
> > > The pilot cage itself has a small arm shield that raises above it I
> > > imagine to take the heat of the flame should it get too high. I'm
> > > wondering if these are the culprits and need to be bent downward
> > > slightly in case they are touching or if there is something else that
> > > can be done to remedy this.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Scott
> > >
>




Posted by on August 20, 2005, 12:34 pm


wrote:

> I suppose it must be so. Its still
>hard to believe this stove was designed such that the surface remains
>painfully hot.

That is regular. My mom used to keep my dad's dinner warm by putting
it over the pilot when he was late.


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