Just wondering what the third one will be!🙄

Last week our 30 odd year old dishwasher finally gave up the ghost after a couple of years of intermittent faults, replacement was a £30 find on Facebook marketplace 👍

On Saturday the oven stopped heating. On Sunday I had a look at what replacing the element required. Quite simple apparently!

Remove 4 screws to remove a plate to allow access to the fan and the element, remove fan to allow access to the bracket holding the element. Easy!

No! Firstly the 4 screws holding the plate after after 30+ years of use were absolutely solid and the screwdriver just misshaped the slots immediately! So just drilled the screws off! 👍 Just the fan to remove now, same scenario, nut welded on to the shaft and no easy way to hold the fan against the socket! So I had to butcher the bracket to remove the element, hopefully I'll be able to remove the bracket from the replacement element and somehow bend the old one enough to secure it.

What kind of ***** puts a bracket screw behind the fan? 😡             Edit: apparently the word  s a d i s t  is frowned upon! 😀

Fan blade nuts are often reverse thread if you can't get them off.

My cooker element is even worse, it's bolted in from behind, entire built in appliance needs to removed for access!  I've just left it and made do with the grill function instead.

Thanks for that @TomsFocus I'll try the reverse thread and see what happens 🤞

This is a built-in oven but only 4 screws holding it in so not too bad a job if you had to go in from the back. 

On 8/5/2024 at 6:01 PM, TomsFocus said:

Fan blade nuts are often reverse thread if you can't get them off.

My cooker element is even worse, it's bolted in from behind, entire built in appliance needs to removed for access!  I've just left it and made do with the grill function instead.

Reverse thread indeed 👍 but why? Why not make the motor turn the other way and make the vanes of the fan suitable for whatever way it's turning and leave the threads to 'Lefty loosey, righty tighty' ? 🤷

Still couldn't get the fan off the shaft though, so just managed to remove the screw holding the bracket on behind the fan and new element replaced without bracket. Now got working oven again! 👍

Mrs Turvey reminded however that a couple of weeks ago our lawnmower developed a fault. I think the gearbox seized, causing the belt to burn out! It still cuts the grass but I've got to push it as opposed to it driving itself 🙄

Hopefully that'll be the 3 things! 🤞