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Posted by HamNCheese on November 16, 2006, 2:08 am
I'm in need of an obsolete part for a 1982 Kenmore oven, model
#103.3248291. I've scoured the net and local shops, nobody has it or
an equivalent part.
It's a piece of 3/8" aluminum tubing with flared ends and inverted nut
fittings on each end. It runs from the regulator to an exterior
shutoff valve (not the wall shutoff). The Sears part # was 294395.
When I removed the oven to fix a bad igniter, I discovered the tubing
had become damaged from a bad installation of the oven years ago, so I
need to replace it.
One shop tried making me a new one by cutting off my existing flared
ends and joining them with a compression fitting to a new piece of
tubing, but the compression seal leaked whenever I wiggled it (I live
in L.A., earthquake country).
Does anyone know a shop that might carry this part? I'm at my wits'
end.
An alternate would be if I could find someone who could make a new
tube properly, with the correct flared ends. Anyone know of any shops
in the L.A. area that can machine something like that?
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Posted by Eric in North TX on November 16, 2006, 2:30 am
Any reason it couldn't be copper? If not anyone proficient with a
flaring tool with access to the proper nuts could whip one out. H.D.
sells flaring tools, you could get one and enough copper to practice.
Not rocket science this.
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Posted by HamNCheese on November 16, 2006, 2:50 am
Gas lines aren't supposed to be made of copper, because copper
corrodes.
wrote:
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>Any reason it couldn't be copper? If not anyone proficient with a
>flaring tool with access to the proper nuts could whip one out. H.D.
>sells flaring tools, you could get one and enough copper to practice.
>Not rocket science this.
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Posted by Eric in North TX on November 16, 2006, 9:04 am
HamNCheese wrote:
> Gas lines aren't supposed to be made of copper, because copper
> corrodes.
I find that interesting as the feed line from my propane tank to the
house is soft copper, as are most.
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Posted by HeyBub on November 16, 2006, 12:41 pm
Eric in North TX wrote:
> HamNCheese wrote:
>> Gas lines aren't supposed to be made of copper, because copper
>> corrodes.
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> I find that interesting as the feed line from my propane tank to the
> house is soft copper, as are most.
It's not the gas, it's the Hydrogen Sulfide dissolved in the gas (there's no
HS in Propane) that corrodes the copper.
Some NG, evidently, has a lot of HS.
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