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Default Lighting a gas water heater pilot

Stormin Mormon wrote:
If you like to live with adventure. Use a propane torch to
heat the thermocouple. Then turn the gas valve on. The torch
will light the gas, and by the time you turn it off, the
thermocouple is warm, and the pilot is lit.


You've seen my Jesus method for finding circuit breakers,
I call the use of a torch to get the main gas valve on to
purge the air, "The Satan Method". If you're not careful
you can get a big ball of flame. *snicker*

TDD