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Subject:Re: Westy conversion needs
From:Karl Wolz
Date:Fri, 8 Oct 2010 14:18:40 -0700

Mike, Yeah, that's normal, or at least normal for a Westy.

Don, a quick flick of the wrist turns the stove to very low heat, sometimes
hard to find if overturning a bit shuts the stove down.  Leastwise, that's
the working theory.

Karl Wolz

|-----Original Message-----
|From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
|Mike Miller
|Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 1:47 PM
|To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
|Subject: Re: Westy conversion needs
|
|I mean the knobs turn counter clock wise to open.
|
|
|On 10/8/10 1:36 PM, "Don Hanson" <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:
|
|>
|>
|>> Oddly though I hooked up the propane and there's no leaks so far, now
|that's
|>> never happened before. Started the stove. Works fine but the knobs turn
|>> backwards? Weird.
|>
|> � You mean they worked backwards from how a normal knob would work, or
|> backwards compared to a Westie stove?� Mine, you turn it on and it is in
|the
|> "High Flame" mode.� Turn it further on and the flame goes down to "really
|> low"..like still on but you can't even hardly see the flame....
|> ..Now that seems backwards to me, and I have some burnt stuff to prove
|> it...closing the stove top with the burner just barely burning .� My
|Dometic
|> works well, too.� That seems backwards from the Norm...
|>
|> Mike
|>
|>