"nestork" wrote in message ...


BM;3068271 Wrote:
Hi,

I have a Kenmore range Model # 790.95889301. One day when it was on it

tripped the curcut on my circuit board. When I flipped the circuit
breaker back on the stove would heat up but not the oven or broiler.
What
could be wrong with it?

thank you

Bob

BM:
I've found that it's fairly common for the terminals going to the oven't
bake element to burn off. The reason for this is that the oven element
is used a lot more than the broil element, and the continuous heating up
and cooling down of the bake element causes the terminals pushed onto
the bake element to loosen up with time.

Whenever it comes to pushing terminals onto blade connectors, you want
to both crimp the terminal onto the wire TIGHTLY, and ensure the
terminal is TIGHT on the blade connector. There's something called the
"million dollar crimp" which you should NOT see when hiring a appliance
repair man to fix your appliance. That's where he grimaces and lets out
an "UUGH" noise when crimping the terminal onto a wire, but really
doesn't squeeze the crimping tool very hard. The result is a terminal
that's not crimped onto the wire very tightly, and as that terminal
loosens up, the gap between the wire and the terminal will fill up with
metal oxides, and will get hot when electricity flows through that gap.
Eventually, that connection will get so hot when electricity flows
through it, that it'll burn both off where the wire going into the
terminal, and the appliance will malfunction.

If you're using the services of a local handyman that charges you less
than an appliance repair man, and you find that he's continuously
replacing burnt off terminals, it's because he's cheating you. He's
using that million dollar crimp technique to ensure your appliances are
always on the blink cuz of burnt off terminals.

Pull the stove out and remove the back cover. Check the two wires going
to the bake element terminals. I suspect one or both of them are burned
off.




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nestork


The years I spent as an appliance repairman, on the spade connectors I used
were heavier than the manufacture used, Hard to push on. Also after crimping
the wire I soldered the crimp. Never had a recall on these. WW