Definitely sounds like work that's worth having done.

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Ack, meant to put in that it's electric.

I'm not particularly optimistic, but I also don't want to start futzing around with it if it's comletely hopeless.

I guess I should check the heating elements in the stove too.

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Ranty cakes to cow-orker:

I asked you 2 months ago what file format you need. I asked you again one month ago. I asked you again last week. So, don't look surprised when I say the file is not ready for publication. I need to know the format in order to prepare it properly. The data is ready. The formatting is not. Why? You didn't tell me the damn format you need.

t /ranty cakes

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It might be worthwhile to check the contacs on the heating elements. You can usually just pull out teh element and clean the contact with steel wool if necessary. I've had that happen with the stove top pretty often. I don't think that would make the light go out, though. A fuse, maybe?

Eh, I'm talking out of my ass.

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Minor annoyance in the new digs that leads to a hivemind question - the oven in my new place doesn't seem to work. I've tried every combination of the temperature and selection (preheat, heat, etc.). The temperature knob makes an audible click when turned, and a light blinks, but doesn't stay lit when I turn the category knob form off to preheat.

Okay, I don't think you're dumb or anything, but did you set the stove to bake (or whatever your other settings are) *and* then pick a temperature like 350 or above?

The clean setting lights the clean button, but it doesn't seem to do anything (and would be useless for cooking even if it did).

For one of my ovens, I had to have the little handle locked, before the clean setting would engage. Does there seem to be a lock-down latch of some kind near the handle?

Is it only the oven that won't work, or is the stove top not heating, either?

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cereal...

My very old electric stove (which I loathe, but that's beside the point)--it has one of those indicator lights, but when the oven reaches the temperature I've set it to, the light goes off. It only goes back on if the temperature in the oven drops (like if I open the door to check on the food, and let some of the heat out), and then goes back off, once the temperature has stabilized.

Finally, check to make sure the sucker is well plugged in. Maybe the previous residents moved it while washing the floor or something.

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speaking of stoves, I saw a bug in my kitchen last night (ewww!) it ran inside the stove. So, I turned it on.

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speaking of stoves, I saw a bug in my kitchen last night (ewww!) it ran inside the stove. So, I turned it on.

The way suicidal mice get into my apartment is by coming up the gas lines for the stove. I kick it a couple times before turning on the oven. And if Devi has been staring at it lately, I'll pull open the broiler drawer. Just in case.

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Okay, I don't think you're dumb or anything, but did you set the stove to bake (or whatever your other settings are) *and* then pick a temperature like 350 or above?

Yeah, I tried doing both combinations - setting to bake then the temp and vice versa.

Is it only the oven that won't work, or is the stove top not heating, either?

And yep, which is why I'm both confuzzled and worried. Confuzzled because I would expect the whole thing to be dead if the oven doesn't work, and worried because that makes it sound like a major problem I won't be able to take care of without making a thing out of it.

Thanks for all the advice, though. I need to make some close friends in the appliance repair business (I got plumbing and heating and construction pretty well sussed, at least on an advice scale).

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Why don't you just mention it to the landlord. Maybe there's a secret trick.

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