One of the rings on my elderly mother's gas cooker doesn't light,
using the inbuild piezo lighter, except if you blow gently towards the
ring after turning the gas on. Can anyone advise what the problem is
and how to cure it? I guess the cooker is about 25 years old or so.

Thanks,

Hank

On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:31:11 +0100, Hank wrote:


One of the rings on my elderly mother's gas cooker doesn't light,
using the inbuild piezo lighter, except if you blow gently towards the
ring after turning the gas on. Can anyone advise what the problem is
and how to cure it? I guess the cooker is about 25 years old or so.

Thanks,

Hank

You checked to see if the holes in the burner aren't blocked with
grease etc ...particularly the ones nearest to the igniter as blowing
the gas towards the spark would suggest that's what the problem is .

On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:48:28 +0100, Stuart B
wrote:

You checked to see if the holes in the burner aren't blocked with
grease etc ...particularly the ones nearest to the igniter as blowing
the gas towards the spark would suggest that's what the problem is .

Thank you! Will check it this weekend.

Hank

On 5 Apr, 19:42, Hank wrote:
On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:48:28 +0100, Stuart B
wrote:

You checked to see if the holes in the burner aren't blocked with
grease etc ...particularly the ones nearest to the igniter as blowing
the gas towards the spark would suggest that's what the problem is .

Thank you! Will check it this weekend.

Hank

Sometimes the electrode burns down, so it still sparks but the spark
just isnt high up enough to ignite the gas. The blowing might fit with
that.


NT

On Apr 5, 12:31 pm, Hank wrote:

One of the rings on my elderly mother's gas cooker doesn't light,
using the inbuild piezo lighter, except if you blow gently towards the
ring after turning the gas on. Can anyone advise what the problem is
and how to cure it? I guess the cooker is about 25 years old or so.

Same thing happens with my Britannia cooker, bought at vast expense
from Peter Jones a couple of years ago - While cleaning the surface,
I rather overdid the water, and now the piezo lighters have all been
"rearranged".

It's as if there's a German Enigma machine wired up in there, because
all the piezos work fine but pressing the button for one ring fires
the
piezo for another and we have to remember which is which!


Cheers

John R Ramsden

On 5 Apr, 12:31, Hank wrote:
One of the rings on my elderly mother's gas cooker doesn't light,
using the inbuild piezo lighter, except if you blow gently towards the
ring after turning the gas on. Can anyone advise what the problem is
and how to cure it? I guess the cooker is about 25 years old or so.

Thanks,

Hank

Check for a build-up of carbon on the ceramic post the spark wire goes
though. I have found that this can reduce the oomph of the spark or
short it out altogether.

Chris

On 5 Apr 2007 16:11:20 -0700, "OwlHoot"
wrote:

On Apr 5, 12:31 pm, Hank wrote:

One of the rings on my elderly mother's gas cooker doesn't light,
using the inbuild piezo lighter, except if you blow gently towards the
ring after turning the gas on. Can anyone advise what the problem is
and how to cure it? I guess the cooker is about 25 years old or so.

Same thing happens with my Britannia cooker, bought at vast expense
from Peter Jones a couple of years ago - While cleaning the surface,
I rather overdid the water, and now the piezo lighters have all been
"rearranged".

It's as if there's a German Enigma machine wired up in there, because
all the piezos work fine but pressing the button for one ring fires
the
piezo for another and we have to remember which is which!


Cheers

John R Ramsden


You have a button for each burner ..That's posh ..:-)