William Sommerwerck wrote:
I'd love to see what a large wedge would do to a modern
microwave oven, other than go right though the entire thing,
like a cup of to-go soup when the lids comes loose and it
instantly dissolves the paper bag you were holding seconds
earlier.

I have a near-end-of-American-manufacture LItton that's built like a tank.
Haven't used it in a few years, but it'll still be working when I'm dead. Only
problem is that the cavity's on the small side.

I liked the ones that opened like oven doors. The last tappan around here
died when the mechanical timer wore out.

Even the Amana and Tappan units didn't have thousands of
screws holding them together. I've always been really curious
about how this oven was designed or who it was copied from.

It's possible all those screws were needed to compensate for sloppy
tolerances. But without tearing it apart, there's no way to know.

Interesting point. Maybe the glass is what holds the door together.

I'm going to have to take the thing apart. The thing is guest-proof too.
It's digital but you have to enter cooking times in this format

[time button] [enter the time] [time button] then [start]

it may be built around a soviet RPL calculator chipset.