A toast for christmas!

Hold on... I don't have champagne for you... I actually got a toaster to dismantle... Haha... Since I received quite a lot of comments about my looooooong post. I will try shortening it... Ohya... sorry for didn't update my blog for so long... Seems a bit busy with some tuition on... (And it can become really life threatening when he/she wants to check your answer)... Some more my phone gone for a "wash"... Caused me about 3 weeks without phone which was... extremely annoying to change my sim card between my sister's and mine... (Nearly spoiled the phone as well, but she will hope so, she wants something like Nokia Xpressmusic phone) Finally got my phone back and now... Ok already la... So to some people who knows about this even earlier, kindly "resume" from "limited sms mode" to "normal mode", thanks. Lol. And hey, I checked out the Courts Mutiara Damansara and guess what? To get a don't know what brand or type phone, you gotta bring an ice cream cone and line up from 10pm to 8am. For the first 100 contestants, you will received a handphone for free... (Don't worry, some even bring their sleeping bags there, but don't ask me whether they went on the floor with people stepping on them) Anyway, I am back for the post...


Ok... Where should I start... Toaster huh? Have some picture of it first... Its a small one, very small one... Cornell CTO-2 oven.






So what's my aim? The main thing that does not function is the heater... Cause I actually done the testing and the light lit up for every wire except after passing through the heating element. And thus shows the only reason for this seldom used oven to slip in spoiled condition.
Heating element is inside some parallel holed metal casing. Its located above and below the tray.


So... Opened some screws and finally found a Torx screw that is impossible to be removed by normal screwdrivers... Had no choice and guess what I did...
It's not easy to bend it ok, I took nearly 20 minutes just to bend the cover... As it is hooked to the housing (You can see something sticking out from the removed cover)... Sharp edges nearly cut my fingers...



Inside view... Green-Yellow wire to the housing to ground off... Brown wire to the timer and output to the temperature "controller" and using yellow wire towards the heating element. It's connected in series and the electric flow through the second element which is located below and then connected to the neutral wire...

A view from another side that proves the series circuit theory.

The heating element seems nice with cover, but not without it... It's just a thin-twisted nichrome wire messing around...

So what I got from this oven is... The timer, which can hold function up to 15 min, a plug with fuse of course, and another free heating element, i don't know when i will use this again, but just keep it somewhere... Lol...

Hey, late dy wei, A 1994 Seagate hard disk from a old laptop coming up for next post, if possible...