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 |> |> |
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