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Originally Posted by micky View Post
On Wed, 25 Dec 2013 11:05:04 -0800 (PST), novel
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My almost 3 year old M O was baking a small red potato.


Red. That should have been a warning.

I had set it for 6 minutes and while it was being cooked, I was doing other things in the kitchen..so I was not really paying any attention to the oven...except i could hear the motor running like it usually does...so the point i am making, if it makes any difference is if it ran its course and just overlooked the sound of the beep when its done, or it just stopped. I opened the door and it was cooked just fine but the first thing I noticed that there was no light, then i looked at the control panel and no clock and etc. I thought i blew a fuse. I checked the outlet and it was fine. I read the manual and it suggested to press the pause button for about 3 seconds..that didn't work either. I tried to open the back where the screws or what suppose to be a screw are and i do not have whatever tool it needs to unscrew. I tried my Allen wrench tools to no avail. The tool that i might have to buy just to even check what the problem
is, plust the part or parts needed will turn this into another 'buy and throw away' product.


You might have just blown a fuse, so it's worth taking the cover off.

The last one like that used a plain glass fuse, available probably in
an autoparts store and certainly from an electronics vendor.

Usually the parts you want to look at are on the side, behind the
control panel. Maybe you can take off the side with the tools you
have.

Sometimes the top and both sides come off at once.

If you don't have the right tip,unless you're very old and don't
expect to be living much longer, it's worth buying a set of tips, and
a handle that tips will fit into . Under 10 dollars and they're gong
to be using weirdo tips more and more as time goes on.

This is the closest I could find like what you need, but I"m not at
all sure it has the tip you need.
Precision Screwdriver Set - 33 Piece
What I was really looking for was a box of either just tips, or one
handle and the rest tips, and more different tips. Someone else will
probably tell you where you can get them, and you could deswcribe
better the head of the screws you can't

Precision Screwdriver Set - 33 Piece
This does NOT have the tip you want but if you find a box of just
tips, this will be a good handle for them. Often the box is made
of red rubber/vinyl and about the size of two packs of cigarettes,
face to face.
Bear in mind that there are some very dangerous voltages inside a microwave oven so don't go poking around if you aren't sure what you're doing. They use odd security bits now so that any old Joe can't open it up with a normal screwdriver.