broken oven: test to see if needs new element?

CorneliusAlphonse · Post by **CorneliusAlphonse** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 4:34 pm

Oven has been non functioning since I moved to my current apt, wasnt an issue in the summer, but is now. The bottom element in the oven doesn't work (top element does). Anyone have a way to test if the sockets for the bottom element will work? Before buying a new element.

BBrianBoogie · Post by **BBrianBoogie** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 4:45 pm

Do you have a multimeter Liam? Do a resistance check on the element itself, if it's not working it will likely show an open circuit. You'll also want to check where the element itself connects to see if there's a voltage there. If the top element is working, it's fairly likely the proper voltage will be there for the bottom one, but worth eliminating before you get a new element.

GAM · Post by **GAM** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 5:14 pm

You can use my meter if you don't have one.

Sandy

GuingesRock · Post by **GuingesRock** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 5:57 pm

Can you buy an element and take it back to the shop if it doesn't heat up?

CorneliusAlphonse · Post by **CorneliusAlphonse** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 6:26 pm

Hey sandy, I might take you up on that. You around home tonight? I'm going to meet up with someone up there this evening, maybe 8-9 pm

Post by **chalmers** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:10 pm

Pfft, what does Boogie know?

Stick a fork in the element plug, if it turns red, it's probably the element.

Keith · Post by **Keith** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:13 pm

Or just like your finger and stick it in there.

Post by **LeafMan66_67** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:25 pm

Keith wrote:Or just like your finger and stick it in there.

That was the test method in the 1942 electrical code for voltages under 250V - not recommended now.

Post by **mr x** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:37 pm

lmfao

Keith · Post by **Keith** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 7:43 pm

It's only a little jolt

Post by **LeafMan66_67** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 8:04 pm

mr x wrote:lmfao

There's another method described for low voltages using your tongue, or one lead in your hand, the other on your tongue, while standing on moist ground. Again, no longer recommended!

Keith · Post by **Keith** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 8:07 pm

Haha. Could you imagine the surprise.

Post by **LeafMan66_67** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 8:07 pm

Even worse, the resuscitation from electric shock, again, circa 1942 and no longer recommended:

RESUSCITATION FROM ELECTRIC SHOCK By Frederick Koliz, MD

1st. Lay the patient on his back, 2 Move the tongue back and forth in the mouth by seizing it with a handkerchief or the fingers, while working the arms to induce respiration. 3. Don’t pour anything down the patient’s throat. 4. Try to cause the patient to gasp by inserting the first and second fingers in the rectum, and pressing them suddenly and forcibly toward the back. 5. If possible, procure oxygen gas, and try to get it into the lungs during the effots at artificial respiration.

Keith · Post by **Keith** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 8:09 pm

Put 2 fingers where?!?!

Post by **mr x** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 8:10 pm

Fucking hilarious. Is that stuff online somewhere? I'd love to post that up for the electricians at work hahahahahahaha

RossBee · Post by **RossBee** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 8:13 pm

LeafMan66_67 wrote:
mr x wrote:lmfao
There's another method described for low voltages using your tongue, or one lead in your hand, the other on your tongue, while standing on moist ground. Again, no longer recommended!

The official version says to use, and I quote, your wife's tongue, while you are standing on a wooden crate holding a pitch fork in case things go wrong, so you can free your loving wife from the electromotive force surge.

Perhaps, I mis-read that part, I don't know.

Post by **LeafMan66_67** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 8:43 pm

mr x wrote:Fucking hilarious. Is that stuff online somewhere? I'd love to post that up for the electricians at work hahahahahahaha

I learned of it in a recent safety course, but some of the excerpts are on Mike Holt forum. http://forums.mikeholt.com/showthread.php?t=100663

GAM · Post by **GAM** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 9:26 pm

The original SHOCKER!

Sandy

jeffsmith · Post by **jeffsmith** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 10:02 pm

GAM wrote:The original SHOCKER!

Sandy

CorneliusAlphonse · Post by **CorneliusAlphonse** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 11:12 pm

Thanks for the loan sandy. I'll let you know how it goes

GAM · Post by **GAM** » Wed Nov 12, 2014 11:43 pm

NP.

Needed to do a "Good Deed", sorry I was not home.

Sandy