{"id":1123,"date":"2024-01-13T07:06:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T07:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desiredcreations.com\/blog\/?page_id=1123"},"modified":"2026-03-16T18:22:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:22:51","slug":"okeefe-merritt-schematics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/desiredcreations.com\/blog\/my-okeefe-merritt-stove-restoration-intro\/okeefe-merritt-schematics\/","title":{"rendered":"O’Keefe & Merritt Schematics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is my \u2018map\u2019 of my OKM \u201cLucy\u201d. She has four cooktop burners, an oven and a separate full-size broiler, a safety system for the oven and another for the broiler, and a clock\/timer system that can be programmed to turn the oven on\/off automatically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019ve tried to explain, in words, how my OKM gas system flows from the main supply pipe all the way thru the myriad of valves, components, pipes to where the gas burns. It\u2019s a lot to explain. It\u2019s even harder for someone else to take in, if they are new to vintage gas stoves. Visuals can much more fun. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gas stove plumbing isn\u2019t much different than water plumbing. It\u2019s a system of pipes, fittings and burners. Just like water plumbing, gas plumbing must be leak proof. Usually, the flow progresses from big pipe to small. Like going from an interstate to a local highway, to a town street to a driveway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I looked under the hood of my OKM the first few times, I was like, \u201cWTH! What is all of that? How am I supposed to figure that out?\u201d  I did learn quite a bit by slowly disassembling and reassembling OKMs over the years. Gradually, things started to make sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While gas stove models have undergone quite a few changes over time, newer features, newer safety parts, increased efficiency, etc., the core system is the same; gas flows into the plumbing, gets routed, gated by valves, then released at the appropriate time. Oddly, modern stoves don’t bake as well as their predecessors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cooktop schematic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Oven and broiler systems schematic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pilot burners schematic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is my \u2018map\u2019 of my OKM \u201cLucy\u201d. She has four cooktop burners, an oven and a separate full-size broiler, a safety system for the oven and another for the broiler, and a clock\/timer system that can be programmed to turn the oven on\/off automatically. I\u2019ve tried to explain, in words, how my OKM gas … Continue reading O’Keefe & Merritt Schematics<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":114,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1123","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiredcreations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiredcreations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiredcreations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiredcreations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiredcreations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/desiredcreations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2317,"href":"https:\/\/desiredcreations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1123\/revisions\/2317"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desiredcreations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desiredcreations.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}