"Jerry G." wrote in message

At this point, you have either two choices. If the rest of the oven is
in good order, you can either buy a new motor, or replace the complete
oven.

I seem to remember that there were turntables once which were spring
powered, but do not see them anymore.

Of course I could put this 99% good oven in the dumpster, but I always try
to exhaust all options, before I do this. It may even be more costly or
time consuming to repair, but within reason I give it a try. It's a
challange. Anyone can carry it to a thrash :-))


As for making a manual crank, this is a funny one. I just hope you are
not serious.

Yes, that was a joke :-) ...but I was thinking of some way to do it.
There's very little room however.

From reading your comments, I personaly would have never spent all this
time and agrivation to fix a microwave oven. If this was my oven at
home, I think my wife would have thown both me and the oven out by now,
in claim of being chinsy over such a small thing!

I have one large Panasonic oven that's over 25 years old. Very simple
controls. Takes two people to carry it. Still works :-) Tray does not
turn. I can sure say, they don't make them like they used to.

This much newer Sharp, has a piece of sh*t turntable motor, designed either
by a nincompoop of an engineer, or some sly marketer.

Infact, about 8 months ago, our micowave oven started to make some
noise from the turn table motor. I found the bearings to be starting to
fail. Since I didn't want to spend the time on it, I put it back
together. I then went over to Sears, and bought a new

You're either much richer JerryG, or love to watch your local dump pile grow
:-)

Regards,

Rich