"ARWadsworth" wrote in message ...
Bill wrote:
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Tabby writes

I think I know what I'm doing next week!

disconnecting the earth & shorting the RCD?

Strangely enough I did consider this, just to get the element hot in
the hope it may remove the moisture that has probably built up. The
oven is about 15 years old, was used regularly for about 5 years and
now only once or twice every couple of years.

A new element is £35:00 so not dramatically expensive, would heating
it be a fix or just a temporary bodge or just a waste of time?

It is worth a shot but your chances of success are only 10-20% IMHO.

I recently replaced the element in our oven. The old one was tripping the RCD
when the oven reached about 200 deg C so it had plenty of opportunity to "dry out"
if moisture was the problem. I wasn't 100% sure if the element would be the cause, but happily it was.

The cheap and cheerful electric hob with the solid rings is a different story.
This does respond to boiling off the moisture for ten min with the earth temporarily disconnected.

--
Graham.

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