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    FranklinT Posts: 1, Reputation: 1
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    Dec 23, 2011, 04:39 PM
    Pilot light gas logs will not light?
    Pilot will not lite. Have blown it out with compressed air. Have done this for the last 14 yrs and it always worked. I do have gas in the line up to the pilot. Also, when blowing the pilot out with compressed air I can feel an air stream coming out the other end.
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    Dec 23, 2011, 04:51 PM
    By " I can feel an air stream coming out the other end" do you mean you can feel a stream of gas? What are you using to light the pilot: spark ignitor, flame, or what? If the gas has been shut off to the log all summer you may need to hold down the pilot button for more than a continuous minute just to flsuh the lines of air. Any gas between the shut of and the log will have left the pipe so you must displace the air
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    Dec 28, 2011, 02:33 PM
    Check the thermocouple. It has got to reach a certain temp before it will open to let the gas to the pilot light.
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    Dec 28, 2011, 04:09 PM
    Still waiting for franklin to answer. Thermocouple is heated by the pilot not the other way around.
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