Do-It-Yourself Story

The biggest problem is taking apart the cooktop venturi/burner assembly. They were fused after 20 years of use. These have to come out to get to the electric gas solenoid which I thought was not opening to let gas to the burner. I ruined the two Ventura’s and jet holder and the two gas lines getting them out and replaced them with new from appliance parts pros. Before I destroyed the old parts I figured out that it wasn’t the solenoid that was bad but I wanted to be able to see how everything looked underneath in case I needed to get to them in the future. First I made sure that the parts I was going to destroy were in stock and they were so I used penetrating oil a 20 mm flat bottom socket and then a unit to drill the hex head off when the wrenches couldn’t loosen the venturi and started spinning the jet holder around breaking the attached gas tubing. I used 1/4” copper line from an ice maker to make new lines and put everything back together with anti-seize. The problem was the potentiometer. How I found out have I just switched the one that was working with the one that wasn’t and that was it. Appliance parts pros had all the parts in stock and shipped out to me in a few days and then it took me about a half-hour to put everything back to new condition. Works perfect for $105.00 thanks.