{"id":5059,"date":"2016-05-18T14:24:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T22:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/?p=5059"},"modified":"2016-05-18T15:00:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T23:00:44","slug":"honey-do-item-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/archives\/5059","title":{"rendered":"Honey-Do: Item #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

HW discovered two burners on our gas stove\u00a0suddenly\u00a0stopped working. The burners are integral to a single component\u00a0that plugs in to the stove top. Diagnosed the problem with a multi-meter – bad spark controller. That, and the\u00a0igniters on the burners could have been bad, I couldn’t say for sure. Hauled the entire component\u00a0to an appliance parts store in Anchorage, one I rather like and have used before. I went in thinking the entire component\u00a0would likely\u00a0be an FRU<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Spoke with a nice man.<\/p>\n

“Got another one of these?”<\/p>\n

“Nope. But we can probably order you one.”<\/p>\n

Part numbers on the box were entered into the computer. Searching..<\/em>..<\/p>\n

“Yessir, found it. Jen-Air replacement part. We can have it here in a week or so.”<\/p>\n

He points to it on his computer screen.<\/p>\n

“What?! $395.00!”<\/p>\n

For a shoddy piece of metal, two stamped\u00a0burners, a spark controller and two igniters. WTF?<\/p>\n

“Look here, all I really need is a new controller and two igniters. Can’t we search for just these parts?”<\/p>\n

The nice man feels my pain. Click click on the keyboard he goes.<\/p>\n

Eventually, he\u00a0locates a detailed\u00a0parts list for the entire\u00a0component. He zooms in and sure enough, there it was – we both ah-ha’d the second\u00a0we saw it – the controller and igniter, with individual part numbers!<\/p>\n

On a different web site he enters each number.\u00a0Searching..<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Bingo. He’d found\u00a0what\u00a0I needed, and only<\/em> what I needed.<\/p>\n

Including\u00a0shipping, delivered to my doorstep – $84.<\/p>\n

Big Shout-out to RepairClinic.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course, I had to disassemble the damn thing to replace the parts. To say it was “cheaply made” would be a compliment. It was one of those deals where everything had to be oriented\u00a0and connected just right before fitting\u00a0the top into the base. Make just one mistake and the whole thing had to be lifted out and everything done over again. Having hands the size of a four-year old’s would’ve helped.<\/p>\n

Finally got it right, screwed it up tight and snapped it back into the stove top. Slowly turned the knob… tic tic tic tic … Poof<\/em>! Viola!<\/p>\n

I give it a year or two, maybe more. Bookmarked the site.<\/p>\n

Moving on to Item #2 this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HW discovered two burners on our gas stove\u00a0suddenly\u00a0stopped working. The burners are integral to a single component\u00a0that plugs in to the stove top. Diagnosed the problem with a multi-meter – bad spark controller. That, and the\u00a0igniters on the burners could have been bad, I couldn’t say for sure. Hauled the entire component\u00a0to an appliance parts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5059"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5074,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059\/revisions\/5074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rknibbe.com\/Wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}