ERA #776 Initial Startup Questions

[Bobcat]

I`m using a Stant # 13478 , which is a 180 degree unit with two 1/8" holes drilled in it . Checked it out before install and it opened exactly when it was supposed to. NAPA here carries them as do several others . This is also the one that Gessford Machine recommends and uses .

Bob

[DAVID GAGNARD]

Originally Posted by Bobcat

I`m using a Stant # 13478 , which is a 180 degree unit with two 1/8" holes drilled in it . Checked it out before install and it opened exactly when it was supposed to. NAPA here carries them as do several others . This is also the one that Gessford Machine recommends and uses .

Bob

+1, I've had very good luck with these and most "standard" part house thermostats....180 degree.....I like to drill 3 small holes in the flange of mine....also, when you test it on the stove, run it thru the cycle 2 or 3 times and watch it open and close, had one that would occasionaly "hang up" about 1/4 way when closing........

Okay, I took out the thermostat and tested it in a pot of water on the stove. Took it all the way up to 210 degrees and it never opened even a little bit. Seems like such a simple device to be DOA like that, but whatever.

anything made by man is subject to defects and failure at any given time, I always,always test things that I can before installing them, learned this a long time ago, the hard way.......

Now that you've found the problem you can fix it, it's when you can't find the problem, that's makes it worse.......

David