Oven Bake Element Help


See the hole in the pictured element....


damaged bake element

This is probably the most common way for an oven element to go bad....a spot in the element gets weak ( may even glow brighter in that spot before the element actually quits ) and blows a hole through itself and the outer shell. This sparking/arcing may remind you of an sparkler you use on the 4th of July ( USA ) or Victoria Day ( Canada ). If this happens to your oven element = new element time.

Tips on changing a common bake element

What a common element is made up from....

bake element diagram


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