The paint on the inside of my microwave oven is starting to burn.
I am getting lots of brown spots.

Do I care? Smells a little electrical after a long cook.

T news 03:25:08 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

The paint on the inside of my microwave oven is starting to burn.
I am getting lots of brown spots.

Do I care? Smells a little electrical after a long cook.


Er...How long is a long cook?

I'd recommend you keep an eye on it as it cooks for you. And, in the
event it smokes or catches fire outside of the cooking area, UNPLUG it
before you attempt to do anything else with it. I know that should be
common knowledge, but, you wouldn't believe how many people I've
encountered who've been shocked and/or badly burnt for attempting to
put an electrical fire out without cutting the power first.

If you can't unplug it in a hurry, make sure you can get to the breaker
box quickly and know which breaker it is that runs it. In fact, it
probably wouldn't hurt to find out which one it is ahead of time. And,
mark it accordingly.

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On 07/01/2017 01:57 PM, Diesel wrote:
T news 03:25:08 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

The paint on the inside of my microwave oven is starting to burn.
I am getting lots of brown spots.

Do I care? Smells a little electrical after a long cook.


Er...How long is a long cook?

9 minutes


I'd recommend you keep an eye on it as it cooks for you. And, in the
event it smokes or catches fire outside of the cooking area, UNPLUG it
before you attempt to do anything else with it. I know that should be
common knowledge, but, you wouldn't believe how many people I've
encountered who've been shocked and/or badly burnt for attempting to
put an electrical fire out without cutting the power first.

If you can't unplug it in a hurry, make sure you can get to the breaker
box quickly and know which breaker it is that runs it. In fact, it
probably wouldn't hurt to find out which one it is ahead of time. And,
mark it accordingly.

Though of that already. I turned the outlet it plugs into,
into a switched outlet. I even flip if off at night as
there are reports of microwave flaming out when you are not
around to watch them. Cheap Chinese Crap.

T news 2017 21:35:14 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

Though of that already. I turned the outlet it plugs into,
into a switched outlet.

Sweet. I've done that for a few circuits I run here...

I even flip if off at night as there are reports of microwave flaming
out when you are not around to watch them. Cheap Chinese Crap.

Yep. Sadly, I've seen this happen. While I can't be certain, I have
seen a few cases (autopsy) of the smaller transformer burning up that
runs the circuit board. It heats up enough to smoke and/or catch fire,
but the condition isn't a short circuit or heavy pull, so the safety
fuse doesn't pop. When I tore one of them apart, it looked to me
like the secondary windings had been failing for awhile and finally
enough insulation was gone that it turned into a small heating element
and burnt up the surrounding plastic. Not sure why it didn't screw the
primary winding enough to cause a short that should have blown the
fuse, but, it didn't. May have had the issue been left unattended long
enough, but, by then a risk of an actual fire was increasing...




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On 07/02/2017 09:31 PM, Diesel wrote:
T news 2017 21:35:14 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

Though of that already. I turned the outlet it plugs into,
into a switched outlet.

Sweet. I've done that for a few circuits I run here...

I even flip if off at night as there are reports of microwave flaming
out when you are not around to watch them. Cheap Chinese Crap.

Yep. Sadly, I've seen this happen. While I can't be certain, I have
seen a few cases (autopsy) of the smaller transformer burning up that
runs the circuit board. It heats up enough to smoke and/or catch fire,
but the condition isn't a short circuit or heavy pull, so the safety
fuse doesn't pop. When I tore one of them apart, it looked to me
like the secondary windings had been failing for awhile and finally
enough insulation was gone that it turned into a small heating element
and burnt up the surrounding plastic. Not sure why it didn't screw the
primary winding enough to cause a short that should have blown the
fuse, but, it didn't. May have had the issue been left unattended long
enough, but, by then a risk of an actual fire was increasing...

Do you have a favorite brand that is reliable? 10
years would be nice.

T news 2017 07:28:28 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

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Do you have a favorite brand that is reliable? 10
years would be nice.

I used too, some years ago. But, not anymore. If you get two/three
years out of one that's used a lot, you're doing good. Stuff is made
cheap and intended to be disposable now.


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