Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] sticking gas valve ??

From: Karl Vacek via Shop-talk <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 19:33:27 -0600

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Sure sounds like a gas valve.  They can live many decades.  Or die in a few 
weeks.  Mostly reliable, but stuff happens. Should be cheap and simple to 
change.

On December 24, 2018 7:06:54 PM john niolon via Shop-talk 
<[email-masked]> wrote:
> I’m using a 50K btu Reznor ceiling hung heater in the shop... worked fine 
> for years and some this year but lately it’s not coming on when the 
> thermostat tells it too.  I can give it a bump with the heal of my hand and 
> I hear gas flow and it lights
>
> I’m thinking sticking gas valve ???   any trouble shooting ideas/procedures 
> I can try to diagnose it ?
>
> john
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From: Karl Vacek via Shop-talk <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 19:35:45 -0600

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Oh - check the thermocouple attachment to the gas valve first.  Tiny 
voltage and a little looseness or corrosion can stop it from telling the 
gas valve that the pilot is on.

> I can try to diagnose it ?

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<div dir=3D"auto">Oh - check the thermocouple attachment to the gas valve f=
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