...pilot control knob.? Last summer I decided to turn my furnace's pilot light off. Here in southern Louisiana, you just don't need the added heat from an early 1970's vintage pilot light adding to your home's heat load. I couldn't turn the pilot knob on the gas valve, so I just shut the gas supply off and left the gas control valve knob in the "ON" position.
Now it's cold (by southern Louisiana standards...60 deg F or so), and I want to turn the pilot & furnace back on. But I cannot get that darn gas valve control knob to move. I can't push it in and I can't turn it in any direction.
And I don't want to call the repairman b/c he will try hard to talk me into a new furnace. And I know I won't buy one from him, I'll buy one online somewhere because I'll find one for a third the price the repairman wants. And then when it gets here it will be damaged, and I'll return it and get a new one. When the 2nd one comes, I'll spend a week installing it and something will go wrong or won't fit or something like that, and I'll spend as much money as I would have paid the repairman for a new furnace.
And at the end of the week I'll be a little closer to being certifiably insane. And my wife and kids will not like me as much. But they probably will have some interesting stories to tell their friends.
So I'm hoping someone could just give me some advice on how to get this doggone gas contol valve knob to budge. On the valve it says it's a Model 36C03 Type 222. And when I do a Yahoo! search on that, I quickly find many links to various White-Rogers model 36C03 gas control valves. So I'm surmising the organization that made my gas control valve is White-Rogers, but no where on the valve does it actually say, "White-Rogers".
Thanks in advance!
Bill
Now it's cold (by southern Louisiana standards...60 deg F or so), and I want to turn the pilot & furnace back on. But I cannot get that darn gas valve control knob to move. I can't push it in and I can't turn it in any direction.
And I don't want to call the repairman b/c he will try hard to talk me into a new furnace. And I know I won't buy one from him, I'll buy one online somewhere because I'll find one for a third the price the repairman wants. And then when it gets here it will be damaged, and I'll return it and get a new one. When the 2nd one comes, I'll spend a week installing it and something will go wrong or won't fit or something like that, and I'll spend as much money as I would have paid the repairman for a new furnace.
And at the end of the week I'll be a little closer to being certifiably insane. And my wife and kids will not like me as much. But they probably will have some interesting stories to tell their friends.
So I'm hoping someone could just give me some advice on how to get this doggone gas contol valve knob to budge. On the valve it says it's a Model 36C03 Type 222. And when I do a Yahoo! search on that, I quickly find many links to various White-Rogers model 36C03 gas control valves. So I'm surmising the organization that made my gas control valve is White-Rogers, but no where on the valve does it actually say, "White-Rogers".
Thanks in advance!
Bill