Jeremy Collins wrote:

Hi all,

My oven has packed up. It's an electric freestander (with
a gas hob). The oven fan and light come on when I turn the
knob, but it doesn't get hot. There's a smaller top oven &
grill which still work, and the electric ignition for the gas
still works.

I'm thinking it's either the electronic timer / clock thingy
(which I guess I can't fix), or some kind of internal thermostat
has failed (which maybe I can).

How do I diagnose the cause? Am I likely to be able to repair
this myself?


I got a second hand coopker to repalce my ageing ceramic hob type for
£100 - originally I was going to pirate it for pats, but in teh end it
was in better nick than mine, so once I had removed the dead mouse from
iunder the control panel and cleaned it up, in it went.

If the cpoker is not brill, and is old, you can often find a second hand
better one at very sensible prices. No one wants someone elses grease
stained monster, but a few hours work with some foaming alkali cleanser
will make most cookers gleam, and frankly its an easier job to do that
than replace an element.