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Default Just bought house with 1,000 gallon propane tank (is this normal?)

On 12/18/2015 04:32 AM, Micky wrote:
Our oven didnt' have a pilot, and that was lit with a match. Somehow
the flame was sucked off the match to the burner, and the match wasn't
burning anymore. Spooky.


I usually have a few sticks of incense and I'll light one and use that
to light the oven. You can get the stick down through the hole easier
than a match. With the match if the gas is slow getting up through the
hole you can get a pretty good whoosh. Knocks the carbon off the oven
racks