Vannete 7000 cooker probs

[boatyboy]

Vannette 7000 cooker with grill lighting problems?

 

Can you help please? I'm having problems with the grill.It lights ok but refuses to stay alight after i release the control knob no matter how long i hold it in.

I laid a mirror on the floor of the grill,and noticed that only the front of the element was alight.The thermocouple was on the back of the element.I lit the Gas at the back with a lighter.I then released the control knob and it stayed alight.This worked ok every time,as long as i never used the spark ignitor.So why does just the front of the element light??

Thanks in advance,I'd love some toast soon

[Water Woman]

Vannette 7000 cooker with grill lighting problems?

 

Can you help please? I'm having problems with the grill.It lights ok but refuses to stay alight after i release the control knob no matter how long i hold it in.

I laid a mirror on the floor of the grill,and noticed that only the front of the element was alight.The thermocouple was on the back of the element.I lit the Gas at the back with a lighter.I then released the control knob and it stayed alight.This worked ok every time,as long as i never used the spark ignitor.So why does just the front of the element light??

Thanks in advance,I'd love some toast soon

I have no techincal reasons to offer but mine sometimes does that and what I do is hold the knob in and twist it back and forth a bit so then let it come out as normal and it stays on. As I said, this has no basis in reasoning but it works for me!

WW

[Chris Pink]

I could rant on for quite a while about flame failure devices but life's too short.

 

Things to try;

 

if you can get at the burner, the problem is probably the jets nearest the spark blocked so poke at them with a bit of wire.

 

the quick fix I often have to do is to blow gently under the grill thus wafting flame toward the back and lighting the back row of the burner

 

On my old cooker I had to make up a bent piece of metal to hold the knob in because nothing gets in the way of toast

 

 

on a related subject 2 of my hob burners only stay alight if i scrape the thermocouple once with a breadknife, given that there is no crud on them what is that about?

 

and as water woman says above, my burners stay on quicker if i push the knob a bit harder before letting go, especially the oven,

 

Can i do the FFD rant now? can I?

Edited March 13, 2010 by Chris Pink

[nipper]

Try piece of wood with a V cut in it to go onto the knob and wedge the wood against a galley unit opposite!

Works for me, when required.

 

One simply has to have toast done in the grill, second only to toast done on an Aga.

 

And as for toasters, Can anyone call that toast?

 

Nipper

 

Edited to add

 

You can have that rant now!

Edited March 13, 2010 by nipper