1956 Tappan Holiday Burner Valve

[rex]

Hello, All and Season's Greetings!

I have a binding gas valve on a Tappan Holiday natural gas stove, and I am wondering if it is okay to put a very small squirt of Kroil or some other lubricant on the shaft to see if this helps free up the valve grease? Right now it occasionally will not turn the burner off and is a bit hard to turn. It looks like the valve is hard to access for service and I don't want to take the stove out of use by wringing off the valve or something like that. Can anyone offer help or suggestions? I cannot find a breakdown of the stove anywhere.

Thanks! Rex

 

[good-shepherd]

Best to investigate how to get access to disassemble, clean and apply new valve grease before the valve gets galled, damaged or the knob breaks.

The Tappan Deluxe stove valves are easy to get at, the Holiday models look much different.

http://tappantalk.blogspot.com/2011/01/burner-valves.html

 

[combo52]

Freeing up stiff gas burner valves

Yes, the best way to do. This is to completely disassemble them and use some grease on them.

However, if you don’t want to go into a time consuming disassemblei, you can squirt some lubricant around the stem of the valve. It probably won’t work miracles immediately but if you do it several times over a couple days or weeks also after you do it if the oven is hot and the stove is hot it’ll probably work in better, but many times this will make it work just fine a light solvent type spray will often rejuvenate old grease that’s in the valve.

John

 

[rex]

Thanks so much to you both. The valve looks very hard to remove on this particular stove. Does this advice that I found on another site sound reasonable? Thanks! Rex

The commerical grease, if you still want it, you'll have to buy at the appliance retail parts store. However, cost wise and the small amount needed for one stove, may not be cost effective.

Any light weight oil will do just as well. Our field reps. use it currently and have been for years. Fact is: they don't even remove the valve nor disassembly the valve to oil it.

"Close the main gas valve behind the stove. Remove the burner from the orifice, put 5 or 6 drops of oil in a piece of unused automobile fuel hose. Apply one end over the orifice and the other end into your mouth.

With a bent nose pliers, gently pull up on the valve stem to unseat the valve core, then gently blow the oil into the core while turning the valve. Once the oil enters the core, lower the core back in place, remove the hose.

PRESTO! An oiled valve that now turns like new."

 

[combo52]

Lubricating gas burner valves

Yes, you can try to get some oil in the valve by blowing it or letting it run in on the office outlet end of the valve.

To do this you have to turn off the gas so there’s no pressure forcing the lubricant out as you do this, you also would need to open other valves so as the oil goes in the air can go somewhere.

John

 

[rex]

John, thanks so much. I'll report back on how well this works for me! Happy Holidays, everyone!