Left Hand Thread Thermocouple. The stores open on the weekend had only right hand thread thermocouples, and i slid the threaded fitting on my new thermocouple down out of the way, then slipped the slotted one over the tube and carefully screwed it into the valve. The pilot light tube is generally a right hand thread reverse the steps to install your new thermocouple. About 62% of these are temperature instruments.
Remove burner cover and trace thermocouple line to where it mounts on pilot light assy.thermocouple should be held in place by friction.remove thermocouple from gas.
The company now replaces this with an adapter that will accept universal right. Is there another way to do a left hand thread other then to just call it out in your detail? The thermoelectric voltage resulting from the temperature difference from one end of. Left hand thread thermocouples were made by american water heater company and i believe some whirlpool models as well. Remove burner cover and trace thermocouple line to where it mounts on pilot light assy.thermocouple should be held in place by friction.remove thermocouple from gas. The pilot light tube is generally a right hand thread reverse the steps to install your new thermocouple. Take the thermocouple to a hardware store for a replacement. If not, solidworks really needs to add this feature.