Repair stories from PartSelect's customers - like you. We give all our customers a chance to help out others by sharing the story of their appliance repair. You can find useful tips as well as estimates of the difficulty of the repair and how long it will take, along with any tools you may require to complete your repair.
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Oven wouldn't light
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Overall Rating:
Very Helpful
Rated By:
8 Customers
Posted By:
james From downers grove, IL
Posted:
8/21/2007 6:36:40 PM
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Appliance Repaired:
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KitchenAid
Range/Stove/Oven/Hood
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K6RT507FWH1
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Age Of Appliance:
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5 - 10 years
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My analysis was flawed. The $100 gas valve was acting erraticaly, so I replaced it. On a hunch, I took the top front off the stove and immediately saw a row of mini relays mounted on the $300 control board. The one labeled "bake" was black!
It is just too small for years of gas on / gas off high current. (The gas valve is indestructable. I took the old one apart. It's only a heater wire wrapped around a bimetalllic arm that lifts a soft pad off of the valve orfice.)
I removed the control board and desoldered the "bake" relay and the "light" relay. I cleaned up the bad "bake" relay contacts and swapped the two relays. Works fine. Better $100 mistake than a $300 control board. (Could have been $0, though.)
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Very Difficult |
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1- 2 hours |
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