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Electric Cooker with Gas Part.

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A customer is having a new all electric cooker delivered today. I installed a new consumer unit and cooker connection point yesterday. A local retailer will not connect up a new cooker if the connection is not simple and straightforward. The old cooker is to be scrapped. The retailer has been known to take a new cooker away after refusing to connect it. The lady of the house is sorry to see the back of the old cooker, I suppose that that is why she was cleaning it yesterday.


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    Chris Pearson:
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    I thought that the bayonet type gas connectors were self sealing. Isn't a blanking plug as bad as socket covers?


    Nearly. All that the valve needs to do when an appliance is removed is to prevent most of the gas escaping for a short while. A blanking plug would be like having an appliance connected, which would be long-term.


    It's a bit like the valves on your car tyres. They provide a temporary seal whilst you adjust the pressure, but what keeps the air in is the dust cap. That is why I prefer metal ones, although I did have a problem recently with corrosion of the valve stems. ?




    But Chris, Chris old mate, isn't a car dust cap a bit small for the kitchen cooker gas point?


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    Chris Pearson:
    Zoomup:

    I thought that the bayonet type gas connectors were self sealing. Isn't a blanking plug as bad as socket covers?


    Nearly. All that the valve needs to do when an appliance is removed is to prevent most of the gas escaping for a short while. A blanking plug would be like having an appliance connected, which would be long-term.


    It's a bit like the valves on your car tyres. They provide a temporary seal whilst you adjust the pressure, but what keeps the air in is the dust cap. That is why I prefer metal ones, although I did have a problem recently with corrosion of the valve stems. ?




    But Chris, Chris old mate, isn't a car dust cap a bit small for the kitchen cooker gas point?


    Z.


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