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Whirlpool Direct Spark Ignition Range Won’t Stay Lit or Re-Ignite

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

Whirlpool DSI
range won’t stay lit; spark is strong.
Pointers: one, two, three.

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How to Unlock the Door of an Older GE Range

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

Older GE range
Ran self-clean, now door locked shut.
Check slide bar, switch, coil.

To learn more about your range/stove/oven, or to order parts, click here.

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How to Fix a DCS Range That Won’t Fire Up After Self Clean

Sunday, February 11th, 2007

Ran self-clean cycle
Now DCS range won’t heat.
Reset limit fuse.

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Complete Listing of All Error Codes for All Thermador Cooking Products

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

It’s an all-you-can-eat error code buffet on Thermador cooking products! Come and git it: sooo-WEEE!
In order to download the error code file, you’ll need to be an Apprentice Appliantologist in the Samurai Appliance Repair Forum. All your other friends are doing it. How ’bout you?
For more tidbits and insight into [...]

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GE Profile Oven with an Intermittent F7 Error Code

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

I am on my knees bowing to you you honerable great samurai master!!
I have a GE Profile oven that has been giving me an intermittant F7 error code for years. The repair man said it was the computer board. I figured it was bullsh*t to spend big bucks on a computer board for a piece [...]

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Jenn Air SVE47600B Cooling Fan Comes on Early and Often

Friday, November 24th, 2006

Come, follow the gripping saga of a blind, helpless grasshopper as he struggles with a cooling fan problem in his Jenn Air range. Watch with awe as Sublime Master “Trying To Help” leads him to the Promised Land of appliance enlightenment.
For more information about your range or to order parts, click here.

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Home on the Range

Monday, November 20th, 2006

The most commonly misunderstood aspect of oven operation that we encounter in the field is oven temperature regulation. We find that many of our customers mistakenly believe that when they set their oven to cook at, say, 350ºF, that the oven will bake at exactly 350ºF for the duration of the cook. In [...]

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Your Online Jenn Air Stove Cartridge Store

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

In stock and ready to ship; 30-day money-back guarantee; 100% safe and secure ordering; next-day delivery available. Click it to git it.
Jenn Air Cartridge - Conventional Coil, Stainless Steel (Manufacturer’s Number A100) - Designer Collection. Stainless steel.

Jenn Air Cartridge - Conventional Coil, Black (Manufacturer’s Number A100B) - Designer Collection. Black.

Jenn Air Griddle - Electric [...]

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“My Oven Temperature is Out of Whack”

Friday, October 20th, 2006

If you suspect that your oven temperature is off, the first thang you gotta do is get an accurate temperature reading inside that oven. That means you need to start with an accurate thermometer. Your assessment of your oven’s temperature accuracy is only as good as the thermometer you’re using. So, start [...]

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Tres Oven Tips Just in the Nick o’ Time for Cooking Season

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Here we are well into Autumn, the grills are getting stored for winter and you’re re-discovering your oven… only to find, to your utter shock and dismay, that your strategy of fixing the oven by ignoring it all summer and using the outside grill exclusively completely failed to fix anything in the oven. So, [...]

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Fahrenheit or Celsius Temperature Selection in GE Ovens

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

If you’ve accidentally switched the oven control on your GE oven from Fahrenheit to Celsius (or vice versa), it can seem like an oven control problem; the keypad will accept some temperature selections and not others. Easy enough to switch back to the way you want it– this excerpt from your owner’s manual explains [...]

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How to *Know* if Your Gas Oven Ignitor is Bad (without guessing)

Monday, June 26th, 2006

Your gas oven won’t heat up and, since you’re a contemplative person who knows what you don’t know, you’d like to learn how to prove which part is bad. Come with me now and read the inspiring story of how a diligent grasshopper proved that the ignitor in his oven was bad and once [...]

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Removing the Door Gasket on a Dacor Range

Friday, June 9th, 2006

Those braided door gaskets in Dacor oven doors are nice and fluffy and springy when they’re new. As you use the oven and spill grease on the door, the gasket will begin to compress allowing heat to escape. At some point, it will bother you enough that you’re gonna need to replace the [...]

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Jenn Air Electric Range Beeps Incessantly; No Fault Code

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

This is usually a bad touchpad. The way to tell for sure is to kill power to the unit, take the control panel down and unplug the ribbon connector that connects touchpanel to the clock. Put it back together and reapply power. The clock will just sit there blinking and, obviously, the buttons won’t [...]

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Frigidaire 30″ Free-Standing Ranges with Mini-Oven: Beeping Sound from Control Panel but No Fault Code

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

Service Flash from Electrolux on the 30″ Frigidaire Free-Standing Ranges with lower mini oven and warmer drawer combination:

Beeping sound coming from the control panel area with no fault code displayed in the Electronic Oven Control (EOC). The consumer can set the oven lock out feature and the beeping stops.

Possible open or shorted mini oven [...]

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