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Name:	Mack -	Reply
Subject:	Gas oven help please
Date:	10/24/2013 5:57:12 PM

I have a very nice gas oven set up to work on propane today. I am changing over to natural gas soon.
Can the oven be adapted for natural gas?? How complicated is the conversion and maybe some idea of how much?
Surely a quality product would be capable of conversion.

Name:	froghog -	Reply
Subject:	Gas oven help please
Date:	10/24/2013 6:32:26 PM

I had a natural gas dryer and changed it to use propane. All I had to do was to change the orifice. You should be able to Google it.

Name:	Mike Hunt -	Reply
Subject:	Gas oven help please
Date:	10/24/2013 6:34:13 PM

Most can and if you know what you are doing it costs little or nothing. Google your brand and see if ther is a kit. If not there is usually a youtube vid that tells you what size to drill the orifices

Name:	GoneFishin -	Reply
Subject:	Gas oven help please
Date:	10/24/2013 7:12:58 PM

I would not mess with gas. I would pay a few dollars and have a pro do it. Just a suggestion from the Left.

Name:	crappyattitude -	Reply
Subject:	I tend to be a do-it-yourselfer....
Date:	10/25/2013 8:02:03 AM

However that being said. I would agree with GoneFishing on this one. I know there is almost nothing to it. But if you shouldn't mess with it if you were asking the first question. (IMHO) Who is changing the rest of the appliances? Just have them quote it with the install. It shouldn't cost too much to have the oriface changed over.

Crappy : )

(Just outside of Nashville)

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Date:	10/25/2013 8:02:31 AM (updated 10/25/2013 8:02:46 AM)

Name:	jersey boy -	Reply
Subject:	Gas oven help please
Date:	10/25/2013 1:08:41 PM

Propane runs at 11" of water column where as Natural Gas runs at 8 " there is a spring in the gas valve which also need to be changed. They are color specific. Easy job to do with the right kit.

Name:	MrHodja -	Reply
Subject:	Gas oven help please
Date:	10/25/2013 2:54:36 PM

As a newly married Air Force butter bar coming out of the Comm Officer's Course, I was informed that I and my bride of six months had an assignment to Cigli Air Base in Izmir, Turkey. I also found out that we had to bring or own stove. My F-I-L graciosly offered us his, and they bought a new one. Well, we get to Turkey, move into our off-base apartment,and hook the stove up to the gas line. Fired up a burner and got a flame about as big as what comes out of a butane cigarette lighter. Did a little investigating and realized the thing was jetted for propane. So, playing McGyver i tried removing one of the jets and reamed out that pin hole made for propane ito a pencil-lead sized hole for the (much) lower pressure natural gas line. Bottom line: from then on the stove worked great. I strongly suspect that you will be able to get a conversion kit, and if you are the least bit mechanically oriented you can make the conversion - safely - witot paying someone to do it for you. That jet is between the valve and the burner, so the only time gas pressure is appied to it is when you turn the valve to fire it up. Thus, assuming you snug it up tightly when putting the new jet on, there is little chance of gas accumulating over time. Good luck and let us know how it turns out!

Name:	Buteye -	Reply
Subject:	Gas oven help please
Date:	10/25/2013 3:06:57 PM

I assume an Air Force butter bar is a 2nd Lieutenant, just never heard that before. If my assumption is wrong, please elaborate. Also, if my assumption is correct, is there a similar reference to a 1st Lieutenant? Thanks.

Name:	Mack -	Reply
Subject:	so a 4 burner stove,,,,,,,
Date:	10/25/2013 4:19:50 PM

will require 4 new jets or is it 1 jet per gas feed???

Name:	MrHodja -	Reply
Subject:	so a 4 burner stove,,,,,,,
Date:	10/25/2013 4:47:40 PM

Now you are asking details for something that happened 45 years ago....:>) Yes, I believe there is a jet for each burner, because that is the point that air gets mixed with the gas to produce a clean blue flame vice the yellow sooty flame. That being said, I would not rule out a new design where a single jet feeds a manifold that somehow itself controls the burner the gas is sent to. Just seems to be inherently explosive.

Name:	MrHodja -	Reply
Subject:	Gas oven help please
Date:	10/25/2013 4:50:44 PM

You are correct, but I haven't heard something similar for a First Lieutenant other than, for example, First Louie. I retired as a Lt Colonel, with rank insignia being a silver oak leaf, thus the nickname "bottle top colonel".

Name:	muddauber -	Reply
Subject:	so a 4 burner stove,,,,,,,
Date:	10/25/2013 5:15:50 PM

Gas jets cost a few dollars. Bought a more upscale 4 burner and had propane people convert it to propane. Used to be propane jets were included with a stove.

I consider myself very handy but am not going to mess with gas.

Name:	froghog -	Reply
Subject:	Gas oven help please
Date:	10/25/2013 6:09:44 PM

Most all new cooktops come with 2 sets of orifices 1 for nat. 1 for pro. A lot of installers will put the extra set in the unit.

Name:	Mack -	Reply
Subject:	thanks everybody,,,
Date:	10/25/2013 6:54:31 PM

I see that the fix is both easy and inexpensive. Appreciate the help,,, Mack

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