Comments on: Gas oven goes boom when starts http://fixitnow.com/wp/2005/12/30/gas-oven-goes-boom-when-starts/ Your appliance repair weapon of mass instruction for all your appliance repair needs! Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:09:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Samurai Appliance Repair Man http://fixitnow.com/wp/2005/12/30/gas-oven-goes-boom-when-starts/comment-page-1/#comment-361 Samurai Appliance Repair Man Tue, 03 Jan 2006 05:26:57 +0000 http://fixitnow.com/wp/2005/12/30/gas-oven-goes-boom-when-starts/#comment-361 The <a>other information</a> I had posted on this pertained to Whirlpool's DSI (direct spark ignition) range; there was a specific tech bulletin out on that range. Yours is simple hot surface ignition but it could have the same problem. Pull out the burner tube and clean it out thoroughly. If you see black soot built up inside the burner tube, there's something wrong with the gas system-- either it wasn't converted correctly or there's a fuel-air mixture problem. Also use a wire brush on the outside of the burner tube and make sure all the burner holes are clear of scale and debris. The other information I had posted on this pertained to Whirlpool’s DSI (direct spark ignition) range; there was a specific tech bulletin out on that range. Yours is simple hot surface ignition but it could have the same problem.

Pull out the burner tube and clean it out thoroughly. If you see black soot built up inside the burner tube, there’s something wrong with the gas system– either it wasn’t converted correctly or there’s a fuel-air mixture problem. Also use a wire brush on the outside of the burner tube and make sure all the burner holes are clear of scale and debris.

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