On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 01:47:31 -0500, wrote:

I have a Lady Kenmore gas cooking stove. I bought it at a garage
sale. It seemed to work perfect when I first got it, but a few weeks
later the ignitor for the top burners seemed to stop clicking on all 4
burners. I checked all the visible wires under the burners. (Now
where the hell they hide the control box for this thing still amazes
me).

That's the gimmick at garage sales these days. They sell you the
stove, but keep back the control box. When you're hooked on the
stove, and have given away your old stove, he disables you.

OK, I could not get it to work, and was not willing to spend a fortune
for repairing a stove that cost me $30.

Not the right attitude. Used things are often worth far more than one
pays for them. Is the stove itself worth repairing?

Of course if you can do it without a service call, that's a good idea
even if the stove cost 1000 dollars.

A 99 cent Bic lighter works
just fine, as well as a sparker for a propane torch.

But here's the weird part. I swear this stove is on drugs or
something. First off, the controls are backwards. Every stove I have
ever used turns starts with a small flame and the further I turn to
the left, the bigger the flame gets. Well, this stove starts out with
a huge flame and the further I torn to the left the smaller it gets.

I've seen that. But if it bothers you, face backwards. It will seem
the other way.

OK, thats weird enough, but this is the ultimate in weirdness.
When I turn on a burner, I DO NOT hear that click click click. I use
my lighter and light the stove. As soon as there is flame on the
burner, it starts going click click click........ WTF ??????????

I think it's learning to talk.

Can anyone make any sense of this goofy stove?
Hopefully there is an appliance repair person online.....

He's right. I think Sears is good about having manuals online, but if
not, go to Sears and read the owners manual from one of their current
stoves. It might have a lot of similarities. (although sometimes
Sears gets products made by more than one maker. There should be
similarities if yours and the one at the store are made by the same
maker.) (Chrysler for example had 3 different companies making the
factory radios.)

Mark