If your drawers stick quite a bit, try baby oil on your lower extremities.
Chumly wrote:If your drawers stick quite a bit, try baby oil on your lower extremities.
Should I remove my pots first?
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If you do pull out your stove, and find you have an old corrugated gas line on it, replace the gas line. They are known to split, crack and leak. Any hardware store will stock a replacement. Also, they sell ninety degree screwdrivers.
Gee, I'd just shim the front of the stove a bit, til the short screwdriver fit, if it didn't in the first place. (I've some quite stubby screwdrivers, which I bragged about before.)
A gas stove is unusual? Pfffffffffffffffffffffffffft.
Of course, there's always the Find The Manual routine.
Also, the old game, Kick the Stove...
So, my house mate came home and we tried all sorts of things to get the drawer unstuck. We pulled it forward and tried to take the back panel off - which should have worked, but didn't. We unscrewed the front panel of the drawer and found a new one behind it (like new modern bumpers). We couldn't see a way in from the inside or from underneath. We did a quick inventory of what we thought was in there and decided it wasn't worth trying any further (for now). We cleaned and put everything back.
I'll tell the landlady and see what she suggests.
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enjoying you girls fixin stuff and all.
Only so many reasons for such, and none are advanced physics...
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Ok, frying pan handle sticking up...
No fry pans in there. I know it was that one last brownie pan with the cookie rack sitting on top of it. Knowing what it is isn't helping me solve this problem. Another day........ maybe next week.
Can you remove a side panel? On some models, they just snap off.
Ill try that tomorrow, Gus. It's the only thing we didn't try and just now I looked and saw screws along the front. Worth a try.
I believe in Discworld there is a Small God of stuck drawers.
Perhaps a little incense....a few kind words....
Most gas ovens have a false bottom inside. Pull it out - you should be looking right at the broiler manifold. Underneath that is whatever is stuck. Push it down - pull out the drawer.
Ah yes, Noddy, in once recent book they actually stated the proper worship of the god of stuck drawers - or was it godess?
cj - no false bottom.
When house mate comes home, I'll try to take off the side of the oven as Gus suggested.
If it works, you may call me a genius -- if not, then I will deny any part of this conversation.
and... what make in the oven?
it's an Amana - rather old one. I looked it up online last night by name alone (didn't feel like finding the serial number) It has electronic controls (push pads) for the timer and clock settings, but knobs for the burners and oven settings.
