Does your Hakim have an incomplete cycle? Or
does it cycle too hard?
Well that is a easy fix, just adjust that little
triangle shaped thingy, because it is a gas valve!
You ask how? The valve is hot, and a wrench
won’t fit. Pliers will just mess it up.
Ok we have to make a tool!
It is easy to do and can be done for pennies!
Lets start with a 1/4” drive 9/32” 6 point
socket. It almost fits as it is. We are going to
need a way to turn it, so lets add a handle. You
can use just about anything to use as a handle,
a pin, a nail, a screw, etc. I just happened to
use the shaft from a worn out grinding stone for
a Dremel tool.
Using a center punch and a hammer make a
starting mark to drill a hole straight through
both sides of the socket.
I then chose a drill bit of the same diameter as
the “handle”.
Next I placed the socket in a vice and drilled
the through hole.
I then tapped the handle in
place with a hammer.
The socket was then replaced in
the vice with the 6 point side up. A notch was
cut in the center of one of the flats using a
cutting disc in a Dremel rotary tool.
The notch does not have to be
very deep. About 1/8”.
Now place your new gas
adjusting tool over the triangle shaped nut with
the narrow point in the cut notch and set that
gas!
