On Dec 28, 2:08*am, "Twayne" wrote:
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Ricky typed:





Is a fire in an electric oven likely to totally ruin the
thermostat?

I had a fire a few days ago, put it out with an ABC fire
extinguisher, and when I cleaned up the mess, I removed the
bottom element and checked it for continuity. *It was good.

Yet neither it nor the top oven element go on, even when
set on Broil.

The top burners work fine.

OTOH, the fire was on the other side of the oven from the
thermostat, about as far away as it could be; and I could
only find one hit in google that referred to this and even
it said just that the thermostat wouldn't be accurate
anymore. * And nothing else got physically damaged except
the oven-door gasket and the plastic handle on one cheap
table steak knife right above the fire.

What do you think?

It's not the thermostat, though it may no longer be accurate if it got too
hot.
It's the pilot adjustment and/or the eye that determines whether it lit or
not, and/or the igniter isn't heating up because it got cracked in the
cleanup. Yes, some ovens have BOTH a ingniter and a pilot that takes over
after it's lit, so it can go up and down in heat production. Our GE is like
that.
* * IMO those are much more likely culprits. Then again if you want to start
at low $ and work you way up, the thermostat will be the cheapest part. But
you said it wasn't actually in the fire, so ... .- Hide quoted text -

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Read the OP it's an electric oven.
The thermosatat ib a mini hydraulic device in most cases. (ie oil
filled pipes & phials)
If the thermostat has been over heated the sensor (oil filled) will
have over pressured and something along the line will have been bent.
Some thermostats have an adjusting screw on them. You might be able to
get a circuit by messing with this screw. How accurate the
temperatures will be even if it works I don't know. On the other hand
it oil may have leaked out and it will be completely knackered in that
case.