Comments on: Maintenance- Cleaning a Norcold Burner

By: Obsolescence : rx4rv.com

Obsolescence : rx4rv.com — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:59:03 +0000

[...] wrote a blog post about cleaning the Norcold burner on my RV.net blog. On the refrigerator I was working on at that time (a Norcold 662), I needed to simply replace the [...]

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:28:37 +0000

Chris, I tried this and got mine all cleaned up, but it still won’t stay lit. When I turn it on the electric igniter does it’s job and the burner lights..then in about 5 seconds I hear another click and it shuts off.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:08:47 +0000

Consensus seems to be that the burner, as pictured in Chris’ post on cleaning a norcold burner is only available with a male [as opposed to the original female ]intake end. Parts suppliers are not sure whether I should use a new supply tube with this or what. Can anyone recommend a straight adapter so that I could use my existing supply tube and the new part, or is there a source for the part as shown on Chris’ original post?????????Dave

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:38:33 +0000

Excellent mentoring—please, where might I find as same as original, female orifice case-burner assemby, same as what i have, same as what is in the picture on your site?

By: Dusty

Dusty — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:22:30 +0000

Chris do you have any tips for getting the tubing break loose
from the brass nut? I tried several types of penetrating spray
without success. Any reason the aluminum tubing can not
be replaced with copper with the flared fittings to prevent
this from happening again?

By: silvertrailer

silvertrailer — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:57:43 +0000

I wish i had not tossed out my 45 year old dometic. My new norcold is a piece of junk. The steel burner rusted and burnt thu in two seasons. The old dometic had a ceramic burner that was still functional. I though that technology and efficiency would have improved some in 45 years but the new norcold was technically worst than the old dometic. I wish the japanese would look into making a good Rv refrigerator.

By: Chris Bryant

Chris Bryant — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:39:13 +0000

Hi Pkunk- neither new Norcold nor new Dometic models have an adjustable air intake- I [i]think[/i] that Norcold has an alternate orifice available for high altitude operation. Jerry- a lot depends on the model- if it's an automatic model, does it indicate AC operation and just not cool? If so- likely the heating element is burned out. If it jut won't switch to AC, then it could be as simple as a GFCI tripped, or a blown fuse. You might want to head over to the RV.Net Tech Forum and ask there- you will get a lot of help- but give the model number of the refrigerator. --Chris

By: JERRY THORNTON

JERRY THORNTON — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:01:11 +0000

DOMETIC RV FRIG, PROPANE COLD ELECTRIC DOES NOT
COOL DOWN OUR FRIG. WHATS WITH THAT?

By: Pkunk

Pkunk — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:34:55 +0000

Very good tutorial, but you made no mention of the air adjustment. I travel (& live) above 8000 ft, and adjust my air almost all the way open to get a good flame.