"Kim Sleep" writes:

"Max" wrote in message ...
Hi , are they compatible ?

The original is the 2M167B and I want to replace it with 2M172AJ.

In a word....NO.

They cross to the same part number. However, the mounting may be different.
Electrically, it looks like they are equivalent based on:

http://a-1appliance.com/xref/magxref.html

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