Hi all,

My girlfriend has managed to get the ignition to continuely spark on
the gas hob.

I am at a total loss as to what the problem could be, I thought it
initially might have been the button jammed in, but I have done
everything to the switch bar rip it out of its socket.

There is no isolater switch to individually turn the cooker off so I
have had to kill the electrics at the main fusebox while I went to
work.

My question is: has anyone else here experienced the same problem
before? If so is there a simple solution that does not involve an
expensive electrician, a battery change perhaps, providing that I can
somehow remove the cooker?

Or is this a symptom of a hob going on the "blink" that only a
manufacturer can fix? Or that a brand new one will need to be bought?

Many thanks

Alastair

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Alastair wrote:
Hi all,

My girlfriend has managed to get the ignition to continuely spark on
the gas hob.

I am at a total loss as to what the problem could be, I thought it
initially might have been the button jammed in, but I have done
everything to the switch bar rip it out of its socket.

There is no isolater switch to individually turn the cooker off so I
have had to kill the electrics at the main fusebox while I went to
work.

My question is: has anyone else here experienced the same problem
before? If so is there a simple solution that does not involve an
expensive electrician, a battery change perhaps, providing that I can
somehow remove the cooker?

Or is this a symptom of a hob going on the "blink" that only a
manufacturer can fix? Or that a brand new one will need to be bought?


It depends on the design, but on many you can unscrew the 'spark' button
and pull it out, revealing a fuse and/or mechanism which should be
replaceable.

"Alastair" wrote in message
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Hi all,

My girlfriend has managed to get the ignition to continuely spark on
the gas hob.

I am at a total loss as to what the problem could be, I thought it
initially might have been the button jammed in, but I have done
everything to the switch bar rip it out of its socket.

There is no isolater switch to individually turn the cooker off so I
have had to kill the electrics at the main fusebox while I went to
work.

Well forget the sparking problem and solve the no isolator problem first.
Cookers require to be controlled by a local switch.

Jim A

On 15 Feb 2007 07:49:42 -0800 Alastair wrote :
My girlfriend has managed to get the ignition to continuely spark
on the gas hob.

I am at a total loss as to what the problem could be, I thought it
initially might have been the button jammed in, but I have done
everything to the switch bar rip it out of its socket.

Over zealous splashing around of water whilst cleaning it? In which
case it should sort itself out in a day or so.

--
Tony Bryer SDA UK 'Software to build on' http://www.sda.co.uk

On 15 Feb, 15:57, " wrote:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Alastair wrote:
Hi all,

My girlfriend has managed to get the ignition to continuely spark on
the gas hob.

I am at a total loss as to what the problem could be, I thought it
initially might have been the button jammed in, but I have done
everything to the switch bar rip it out of its socket.

There is no isolater switch to individually turn the cooker off so I
have had to kill the electrics at the main fusebox while I went to
work.

My question is: has anyone else here experienced the same problem
before? If so is there a simple solution that does not involve an
expensive electrician, a battery change perhaps, providing that I can
somehow remove the cooker?

Or is this a symptom of a hob going on the "blink" that only a
manufacturer can fix? Or that a brand new one will need to be bought?

It depends on the design, but on many you can unscrew the 'spark' button
and pull it out, revealing a fuse and/or mechanism which should be
replaceable.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I have a relative who is an electrician who is due down later who
should be able to do this hopefully.

Over zealous splashing around of water whilst cleaning it? In which
case it should sort itself out in a day or so.

--
Tony Bryer SDA UK 'Software to build on' http://www.sda.co.uk

Although that was not the description that I was given from the missus
I suspect that might be the issue, I will post more details regarding
what happens when I find out.

Thanks for all the replies

On 15 Feb, 16:49, "Alastair" wrote:
Over zealous splashing around of water whilst cleaning it? In which
case it should sort itself out in a day or so.

--
Tony Bryer SDA UK 'Software to build on' http://www.sda.co.uk

Although that was not the description that I was given from the missus
I suspect that might be the issue, I will post more details regarding
what happens when I find out.

Thanks for all the replies

Well would you credit it....

The bloody thing has apparently dried out and is now functioning as
normal.

Thanks again

On 15 Feb 2007 07:49:42 -0800 someone who may be "Alastair"
wrote this:-

There is no isolater switch to individually turn the cooker off so I
have had to kill the electrics at the main fusebox while I went to
work.

There should be. Get one fitted.


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