Author Topic: Hey! What's with my stove?! (Read 2289 times)

Nash · « **on:** March 15, 2005, 11:27:11 PM »

So tonight I decide I'm gonna try and cook something. I go to turn on the stove, and.... nothing.

The oven doesn't work either. But the lights, the fan, and the clock all work. The thing can't be older than a couple of years. And this thing did work fine, once... a ways back.

Busted fuse? Or is this god's way of telling me to back the hell away from the kitchen?

Sandman · « **Reply #1 on:** March 15, 2005, 11:27:50 PM »

Is it gas or electric?

Nash · « **Reply #2 on:** March 15, 2005, 11:28:21 PM »

Uh.... how can ya tell?

Nash · « **Reply #3 on:** March 15, 2005, 11:33:44 PM »

Oh wait.... duh... It's electric. Elements, not flame.

Raubvogel · « **Reply #4 on:** March 15, 2005, 11:33:50 PM »

You don't know if it's gas or electric?

Put your hands up and step away from the stove...slowly.

Hawklore · « **Reply #5 on:** March 15, 2005, 11:42:47 PM »

God has spoken, step away..

Sandman · « **Reply #6 on:** March 15, 2005, 11:46:09 PM »

AFAIK, if a fuze pops the whole thing goes... no lights, no clock, nothing.

But... I've been on gas for the past 14 years so I'm probably mistaken.

Nash · « **Reply #7 on:** March 15, 2005, 11:48:57 PM »

Oh, if it makes any difference, the little lights beside the dails that go on when you turn them don't go on. Just the oven light.

Nash · « **Reply #8 on:** March 15, 2005, 11:52:12 PM »

Too weird. There's an outlet on the thing. I plug a vacuum cleaner in it and the vacuum cleaner works.

So basically, almost everything works except the things that actually produce heat. Yet all that stuff is electrical.

Sixpence · « **Reply #9 on:** March 15, 2005, 11:52:26 PM »

Get your government funded repairman

rpm · « **Reply #10 on:** March 16, 2005, 12:16:14 AM »

Nash, it's probably got 2 circuits. 110 for the accessory side and 220 for the heating. Pull the stove out and look behind it for circuit breakers or fuses. There's also a couple pretty good online appliance repair guides. Fixitnow and Partselector

JB88 · « **Reply #11 on:** March 16, 2005, 12:18:57 AM »

sounds like a job for queer eye.

Sixpence · « **Reply #12 on:** March 16, 2005, 12:23:24 AM »

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Originally posted by rpm
Nash, it's probably got 2 circuits. 110 for the accessory side and 220 for the heating. Pull the stove out and look behind it for circuit breakers or fuses. There's also a pretty good online appliance repair guides.

lol, you guys are gonna get him killed

If you try looking at any connections or fuses...UNPLUG IT

Nash · « **Reply #13 on:** March 16, 2005, 12:26:10 AM »

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Originally posted by rpm
Nash, it's probably got 2 circuits. 110 for the accessory side and 220 for the heating. Pull the stove out and look behind it for circuit breakers or fuses. There's also a pretty good online appliance repair guides.

Okay, I pulled the oven out, and on the back is a baggy stuck to it... inside the baggy is (voila!) an 8.5"x11" electrical schematic. Problem is, it might as well be in Chinese.

There's a giant cord going into the back... but no fuses nor any opennings for fuses. The entire back is covered with one piece of sheet metal... which is being held in place by about 12 screws.

I have a leatherman with the right bit, but I think this is getting wildly beyond my pay grade.

I'll see what I can find out from google.

Oops, I didn't notice your links rpm. Thanks!

Nash · « **Reply #14 on:** March 16, 2005, 12:29:56 AM »

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Originally posted by Sixpence
lol, you guys are gonna get him killed

If you try looking at any connections or fuses...UNPLUG IT

Now ya tell me.