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tafeanornRemember last year when the stove/oven just stopped working, and then a few days later just started back up again? Well it happened again on Saturday, in the middle of the Christmas baking. Becca and I were at Epic Game Day (having no one show to play Ellis, so instead we fell in with a Steve Jackson Demo-person and Revolutioned our way through the day), and got the phone call just as things were wrapping up.
After a hour of tinkering to no avail, we gave up and made plans to shop for a new one in the morning. Sunday, I fiddled a bit with it and got it to work, while also making another discovery -- what got it to work was not fiddling with the range, but fiddling with the circuit breaker box. So after another hour of tinkering, we figured it out and got it working, temporarily at least.
Turns out that one of the circuit breakers is dying and if you apply pressure to the switch (not left or right, but inward pressure) it works. Certainly not the way these things are supposed to operate. Thing is, we've already dealt with this breaker box and it turns out that it's so old that they don't make replacement breakers anymore. Last time we fussed with it we had to go to a recycled electrical supply outlet to get one (and, of course, they're not open of Sunday).
I'll wrap this up because I've got to run, but we did get the cookies finished!
We also made our reservations for our cruise next summer, but more on that some other time.
After a hour of tinkering to no avail, we gave up and made plans to shop for a new one in the morning. Sunday, I fiddled a bit with it and got it to work, while also making another discovery -- what got it to work was not fiddling with the range, but fiddling with the circuit breaker box. So after another hour of tinkering, we figured it out and got it working, temporarily at least.
Turns out that one of the circuit breakers is dying and if you apply pressure to the switch (not left or right, but inward pressure) it works. Certainly not the way these things are supposed to operate. Thing is, we've already dealt with this breaker box and it turns out that it's so old that they don't make replacement breakers anymore. Last time we fussed with it we had to go to a recycled electrical supply outlet to get one (and, of course, they're not open of Sunday).
I'll wrap this up because I've got to run, but we did get the cookies finished!
We also made our reservations for our cruise next summer, but more on that some other time.
