[Steve Fox]

Dear Dan O.

Thank you very much for replying so quickly. I will do my best to answer your questions. First of all I am living in Israel so I am dealing with an 'export model' of a Magic Chef oven: m/n GM3468XUW-X. It was purchased in 1996.

In answer to your question if the oven burner is alight and is the oven ignitor glowing when we smell gas, I don't have an answer for you (at least not yet) -- since there is a bottom plate of the oven that prevents me from seeing the status of the burner and ignitor. I suppose I should run a visual test after having first removed the bottom plate.

Thanks for the link to Understanding Gas Oven Ignition Systems but I had previously read it, and it did not help me to diagnose my exact problem.

I replaced the oven ignitor about one week ago only as an attempted solution to this immediate problem. The repairman did NOT check the amperage draw, rather I checked it (but only when the new ignitor was totally disconnected from the oven's electrical system) - On the RX10 scale it read about 1.5 (one point five), but that number did not make sense based on www .appliance411.com/links/jump.cgi?ID=573 I can tell you that the "bad" ignitor I removed from the oven reads 1.9 (one point nine) on the RX10 scale when dis-connected from the oven.

I did NOT check the amperage when the ignitor was connected to the oven's electrical system. Would that be helpful, and if so, can you kindly describe how to do it?

Other than a bad ignitor or a clogged burner tube what other parts could be defective in order to cause an intermittent gas smell...any idea?

Thanks again, very much, for your time and effort on this one!

Steve