Why is my oven not heating up
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welcome to tomahawk DIY we're gonna take
a look at this Maytag Gemini oven it's a
double oven that's the upper and lower
and we've got a problem with the lower
element and see the upper element heats
just fine the lower element is not
working it's really easy to repair into
place we'll go ahead and show you how
all right so we've lid this around away
from the wall we're gonna go ahead and
unplug our power I always want to make
sure you're being safe when you're
working on things with the electricity
the first step to moving this element is
simply undoing a couple screws here now
once you have these undo unscrewed you
want to be tempted to try to pull this
thing out but the wires are still
connected in the back so we've got to go
to the back next to disconnect the wires
and then this is where we access that
heating element so screwed undo and
right in here we've got some wires
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in there a little better okay
so you may need fires but you may be
able to get enough force just like that
slip these off so with that this whole
assembly slides right out really easy
unclear the link on Amazon where you can
pick this up also show you how you can
test for continuity and confirm that it
really is your element that's broken
broken and not something else in this
case you can see we had something
happened here with stuff that get on it
and apparently caught fire and seems to
heat it up and melt it off or corrode it
off some kind of coating around this
element so we're gonna order a new one
from Amazon including affiliate link and
get this thing obviously put it back in
the same way you took it out alright so
as you put it back together
and get your wires reconnected I want to
show you right here there's a little
slot that comes in like that and then
you can see this heat stuff so you want
to make sure that sliding back in
securing properly so just screw
everything back in place
all right so we've replaced the element
just the exact reverse of how we took
the old one out and you can see it's
heating up one thing that is interesting
is this last section here isn't turning
bright bright red it's not sure what why
that is but might be something faulty
with the element itself thanks so much
for watching come on yeah I have a great
day