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Re: Creda CF50EW standalone electric oven – Oven won’t heat

Jim,

The oven is now fixed and the girlfriend is now happy (for the time being). Removed the oven top, then the front control panel to access the oven switch/stat. Job was really easy, not even a fifth of what I had feared (only 15 or so screws needed removing).

On examining the back of the oven stat, I noticed that a wire had melted clean off one side of a 2-way crimp terminal. The other side of the connecter went to the oven indicator light, confirming that the melted wire was the live to the oven element.

As I didn’t have any of these 2-way crimp terminals to hand, I soldered the melted wire back to crimp terminal, reassembled the panel and switched the oven back on, and it worked fine.

I was quite surprised that the wire had melted off the crimp terminal. Does this indicate another problem or is it just wear at the terminal or a bad crimp or something (oven is five years old)?

Thanks for your help.

Paul Williams.

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Re: Creda CF50EW standalone electric oven – Oven won’t heat

Jim,

Thanks for the quick response.

But wouldn’t the oven indicator light (the one which goes out when the oven reaches temperature) on the control panel fail to light if the stat had failed?

Paul Williams.

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