From: "Dan O." 
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: Closing oven pilot light?
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:35:34 -0500


>Vince wrote
>
>My apartment has an older Brown stove
>with two pilot lights under the stovetop,
>and one inside the oven. I want to kill all
>of them

Why? See Anon's rely about gas usage of pilot lights.

Plus, hopefully no one's ever around which may turn the gas on and
walk away without lighting the pilot. ...Or maybe suicide is on your
mind??

>I am confused about the oven one. It's
>supplied by a separate pipe, and I didn't
>see any screws to close that one.

There should be one on the oven thermostat. I don't know if it can be
used to turn the pilot right off or just control how much bigger it
gets as the thermostat is turned on.

>I am not sure if I can use the oven at all if I
>close the pilot light -

An oven designed with a constant pilot will definitely not work
without a pilot flame and it extending (getting bigger) as the
thermostat is turned on. See Anon's reply.

>I lifted the floor inside the oven, and there is
>another thermostat at the end of that pipe

That is the oven "safety valve" which will not allow gas to flow to
the oven burner unless it senses the pilot is lit and of appropriate
size to heat the valve's sensor bulb.

>While I am on the subject, the oven's temperature
>control thermostat broke recently. The thermostat
>bulb at the end of the wire broke off,

It is not a "wire" but a capillary (very small) tube.

>and a tiny amount of some stuff leaked off the
>bulb. Any chance it could be mercury?

No, mercury is not used in oven thermostats but *is* in many oven
safety valves.

Dan O.
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