"Badger" wrote in message
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An AWT health grill, model HG11, bought may 04 failed with a visible
flash from within.

As a technical specialist I investigate equipment failures as part of my
job, I have also worked as a cooker service engineer for Belling in the
past.

Opening the grill I discovered a mains connector cable had burnt out
causing the wires to melt, after burning off the insulation. An
insulation assembly was also burnt.

In my experience such failures are usually due to poor
design/specifications, rather than workmanship, the series of house
fires caused by Belling ovens in the 80s/90s being a case in point.

I feel this product needs an urgent product recall/replacement before
others are injured.
It is NOT fit for purpose, this failure not being due to normal wear and
tear.

photos www.albumtown.com/brevillegrillfaults

Later HG21 model may be also affected.

Badger.


The photographs you link to show a lack of sufficient heat resistant
sleeving over the flex conductors. This would point me to a show of bad
workmanship rather than a design fault. If the person putting the sleeving
on before crimping the flex to the heating element had done it properly,
then this would more than likely not have happened. Tell the makers they
have a "Made on Friday Afternoon" appliance they have to replace. :-)