Fix microwave?

[bmacd]

bump for said auction of pallet

-=bmacd=-

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: Slickone
Is anyone willing to provide any tips? I hate to throw this thing away without at least checking for something simple.

Built them 30+ years ago.

Then there was a fuse and a cap that usually failed when on the assembly line.

Simple job to replace them.

All power was disconnected, removed the cover and pull out the fuse and/or replace the cap.

I do not know if you can get caps at a reasonable pirce in single quantity.

I do not remember how we determined if it was the cap that failed; there was no sophisticated test equipment, just a set of procedures that the "troubleshooter" followed.

Swap out a couple of items; if that did not work; send the unit for an extensive tear down.

Units at that times were $500 with labor at $1.75/hr

 

[Slickone]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper
Built them 30+ years ago.

Then there was a fuse and a cap that usually failed when on the assembly line.

Simple job to replace them.

All power was disconnected, removed the cover and pull out the fuse and/or replace the cap.

I do not know if you can get caps at a reasonable pirce in single quantity.

I do not remember how we determined if it was the cap that failed; there was no sophisticated test equipment, just a set of procedures that the "troubleshooter" followed.

Swap out a couple of items; if that did not work; send the unit for an extensive tear down.

Units at that times were $500 with labor at $1.75/hr

See anything in my pics that looked like the fuse or cap?

 

[Slickone]

^

 

[Colt45]

the fuse is in the yellow thing, it opens in half

don't see the cap though

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: Colt45
the fuse is in the yellow thing, it opens in half

don't see the cap though

Cap does not show in the pictures.

Memory thinks that it was about the size of a cig pack with an slight eliptical shape, but slightly taller. Usually mounted to the back wall with a couple of brackets

 

[Colt45]

yeah, something like this

 

[kb3edk]

My microwave "broke" a few weeks ago when some food blew up and got stuck on the mica wave guide on the inside wall... it carbonized and created some sort of spark gap. Then that gap short-circuited and burned a hole in the wave guide and zapped a bunch more things, and the whole inside of the microwave lit up inside like a Christmas tree. It scared the hell out of me, I thought I was going to burn the house down.

Anyway I pulled the plug on the thing and cleaned out the charred mess inside, and it seems to work OK now, except for the charred hole in the side of the wave guide which is about 1/4" wide. :roll:

Here's a good (though slightly scary) amateur microwave repair guide I found on Google:

http://repairfaq.ece.drexel.edu/sam/micfaq.htm

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: Colt45
yeah, something like this

Exactly