My oven quit working 2 days before Christmas. I had a repairman come the next week and he had to replace the igniter. The bill was $210. I do not have the knowledge to repair gas stoves and after seeing what he went through to replace it, I was more than glad to pay the $210. We have also had to replace the igniter in our furnace twice in the 12 years we have had it. Maybe pilot lights weren't so bad.

Quite a few years back the ignighter went out on my stive. I hated the stove and since it would cost a fair amount to replace, we decided to replace the stove. But couldn't find another huge old range to fit into the spot and besides the counter tops were old...so as long as we had to...
Anyhow 4 months later and about $20,000 poorer I had a stove that works....as well as a new floor and a wall that was pushed out...
Watch those ignighters...they can be expensive!
Linda C

LOL! Linda C, that's what they call a mushroom effect kind of project. Sadly, I've had several - usually when we were trying to do a seemingly simple repair in our old 100-year-old house.

gandle: Does Barcelona ring any bells? What wonderful memories!

Last night Steve made moose meatloaf for dinner and tried to serve it to me practically raw, because the recipe said it would be done by thenand if thatÂs what the recipe says, it is not for us to dispute. My first impulse was to be annoyed, but then I rejoiced, because as of Friday, such a thing will no longer be possible. Oh sure, weÂll still eat moose meatloaf (and like it), but on Friday weÂre getting a new oven range that features an integral meat thermometer, so internal temps are indisputably displayed and I donÂt have to deal with his over-reliance on written instructions when cooking. (Theoretically.)

When we moved in nearly four years ago, Steve and I agreed that the range would be replaced as soon as practical. There's nothing wrong with it, per se: Plenty of people like glass-topped electric stoves, and I've managed to work around the oven's consistent imprecision. There's probably some kind of recalibration dial I could adjust... but solving this would only force me to keep it longer...

So when Steve was surprised with a generous performance bonus, we decided to put most in our retirement savings but to splurge on a new range.

Giddy at the prospect, I called my neighbor to discuss where to donate our old appliance. She knows the contempt I have for it so we danced a happy jig together and she asked what our timetable looked like. "Well, a normal couple would have one in a week or so, but I'm married to Steve so he'll have to research everything on line, examine the inventory of every appliance-selling establishment in a 50 mile radius while nearly disassembling each in the showroom, read product reviews, think about it, and then re-visit every store to find the best price. *sigh* Might take months..."

"Whereas if you had your way, you'd just make it yourself!" she retorted, knowingly. (Touché.)

To my astonishment, we found it in only five shopping trips supplemented by on line research. Our new oven(s)/stove gets installed on Friday! It has bells and whistles, but mostly I look forward to cooking with gas (on top) again. I think IÂm going to break it in by cooking duck. ThatÂll mess it up in a hurry and make it match everything else around here.

I was told they went extinct, but managed to find a new gas cook-top when we remodeled our kitchen with a standing pilot light. That click-click-clicking drives me ape.

I've cooked in old stoves where the only thermostatic control was how wide you cracked the oven door. I also remember my mother heating up the kitchen with the range burners. Now and again, like the weather we are having now, I purposefully set a kettle of beans on the stove to crank the kitchen warmth up a notch. The trade off is steamy windows.

We're getting to the point where we're going to have to get a new stove. The cooktop is going - one burner at a time. I wish I could say that we could replace the electric cooktop with gas, but unfortunately that's not going to happen.

Hello i was wondering if anyone could help us out,, We wanted a vintage range and had the oppurtunity to pick up a skelgas range, named the constellation, i am looking for a few parts for it but cant seem to find any info about it on the web, It was manufactured for Skelly oil co. but i cant find who the manufaturer was, and dont see antwhere that skelly manufactured any appliances themselves.. it is a 1954 model, any help would be great thanks John

We had a #6 Wedgewood

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