Gas Stove Replacement - Removing a gas stove's flare fittings
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We need to move the stove out a little bit so that we can gain access to the back of
it and what we're going to do next is take off the burner covers and take off this cover
plate and then, if you can see, I can stick my hand through the stove here. And then where
this hose goes to the next fitting, there will be another flare fitting similar to this
on the other end. We want to disconnect that, so I'm going to take our crescent wrench.
So at the other end of our flare tube, this flexible tube with the flare fitting, we have
this flare fitting which we will also disconnect at this time. So we put our crescent wrench
on it and turn it to the left, and then it will start coming off. Now in some cases you
will need to back up on this side also with another wrench, or a large pair of vise grips,
or a pipe wrench on another fitting if it starts twisting, in this case it did not.
So now it's loosened up, and we can continue unscrewing our flare fitting. Okay, so there
it is, so now we have successfully disconnected the flare fittings on the ends of our flexible
gas supply line.
