Thetford oven fix-part 2

If you’ve seen the first video on fixing a Thetford oven knob you will have noticed ( and kindly pointed out to me ) that I didn’t actually show you what I did with the matches. I was so impressed and as my great grandaddy quite rightly taught me ‘don’t try and fix something if it ain’t broke’, I didn’t want to take it off. But I did and here’s what followed.

Fixing the oven knob

So, for some strange reason the knob on the oven that turns the gas on is just spinning round and doing nothing. It’s not even six months old and it’s broken. With no chance of getting to an oven shop to buy a new knob the challenge was on to fix it… It took me a little while thinking outside the box and with just a handful of materials I came up with this…