re: #131 Anymouse

I have no idea. I am going to take a look at the furnace later today to see if I can fix it. (The pilot light won’t stay lit after releasing the start button. Four likely candidates: 1) The thermocouple has bent away from the light - I had that happen before on a different furnace - fixed by bending it back into the flame. 2) The wire to the thermocouple is open. I can fix that (either by finding the open or just replacing the whole thing) 3) Thermocouple has gone bad 4) Safety shut off valve for the gas line has gone bad.

If it’s 3) or 4) I can’t fix it. As for whether parts are available, I guess I would find out.

When I was a kid back in Pittsburgh, my dad had an old Scotch Forced Air heater in our old brick house. That heater was over 50 years old. There were days when it was so cold outside, Mom made me sit in front of the heater all the time. Felt real good on cold days to have that fan blowing dry hot air on me!

Uncle Earl would fix it when it acted up with parts he could juryrig. Eventually it died, the parts were no longer available and Dad had to splurge for a new (you guessed it!) energy-efficient heater that didn’t heat as well as the old Scotch model.