Scrapping an Electric Cooker

If the oven is stove enamelled, even the side sheets are useless for re-use as when bending/cutting the enamel comes off as little shards of glass.

Just dump it - and that's advice from someone who tries never to dump anything.

Replace with a gas oven/hob if possible & choose one that'll work when the power is down too. The electricity is more likely to fail than gas, so in a winter power cut you can brew some tea & heat a meal. And put a bit of heat into the house. We have a 'Parker Cowen' that fits that requirement & I'll be very hard to convince to replace it.

Regards

Richard.

Edited to correct an android predictive text stupidity.

Edited By richardandtracy on 20/08/2017 17:56:46

Hi, well talking of oldest domestic appliances, mine is a 500W Mutsui of 31 years and costing almost £40.00 at the time and still woks today as good as it did when I bought it. It may well be getting to the end of days though, but not because it doesn't work properly, moreover, that the casing is starting to go rusty.

The little bit of rust that can be seen on the perforation on the front left hand side, occasionally gives a little spark, but that's about it, however, the rust marks at the bottom where the door closes onto, are from the door itself. So it may well be the door that closes its fate (pun intended) but hay, I doubt that there's even been a years worth of days when it hasn't been used.

Ironically, when I first bought it, the sales person tried hard to sell me extra cover for it, as it would be expensive to repair after the guarantee had run out. The price for the extra cover! about £37.00 PA. I told him politely, no I don't think so.

Regards Nick.

It gets worse for me. I thought that the two coils of "copper" that I harvested from the transformer appeared to be a little light in weight so I tried the application of a gas torch with it and a length of wire that I knew was copper. Guess what, the coils from the microwave are aluminium! Are well, into the skip it goes and the search for real copper continues.

I'll save the fan and motor, that might come in handy one day.

norman, you'll find a couple of magnets in the Magnetron, toriodal shape about 2" diameter by 1/2 thick. The sheet metal can be of use.

Ian S C

So you've already made a spot welder with your last microwave?

Scrapped a built-in double oven last week. Not much to recover,,only a couple of galvanised panels. Took the doors off and then used the angle grinder to bring the main body down into small chunks to fit into the car for dumping. I did end up with a lot of self tapping screws which may come in handy one day.

I too have boxes and tubs full of stuff which I,m sure will come in handy some time,question is,will I still be around to use it ?

One day,when I am gone to the Great Workshop above or below [the jury are still out on that one ] someone will come to clear out all my "useful" junk and ask themselves "What the Hell did he keep this for,or what is it?"

Not only that,but I have jigs,made for jobs long forgotten, so long in fact that even I have no idea how to use them,and that,s a fact ! Can,t even remember what they were for,but I kept them in case they "might come in handy some time " I also used to raid skips,this helped to add to the collection.You would not believe some of the items I found this way,some did come in handy,most did not,not yet anyway.

Will we ever change? I doubt it at this stage,since I,ve been doing it since I was about 18 and I,m now 78 [and a bit ]

When the time comes,the skip outside my place should be worth raiding,if there are any true raiders left. We are a dying breed,but hoarders will never die ! I must have about 5000 self tapping screws,but never enough of the right ones for any job,wrong head,length,type. Washers? loads of them,all sizes,types. Springs ? yes,what type would you like? I have stuff that everyone wants, I even have stuff that no body wants ! However,I,m glad to see that I am not alone,so I say "Keep it up boys,dont mind what the others say "

Larry, I thought I was reading my lifestory!! allthough I'm 10 yrs younger than you, I just can't resist a bargain or a freebie from a skip or a neighbour, & can't for the life of me bear to throw things out, I've seen me have a sort out in the workshop then on bin day bring back some of it into the workshop, & I'm allways repairing things, & of course "Graham the old man down the village can fix anything!!" allways mending something for someone, & folk put stuff out on the roadside for the scrapmen who are allways round the village,but I'm up early out on the bike & if I see something tasty it's mine,makes me feel good beating the scrapmen as I got £2000 worth of foundry flasks & lathe chucks nicked by them a few yrs ago I detest them,I go to autojumbles & come back with stuff bacause it's so cheap! Fortunately my sons an engineer & so the missus won't be cleaned out when I pop it!! .

Small micro wave cabinets make an ideal cabinet for a home brewed converter 240 single phase in 3 phase around 440 out or a large power supply. cabinet. Make a sheet steel front panel in place of the door and a sheet steel chassis to mount the components on, never known to throw a micro wave out. The main fuse is an expensive one so keep them for possible future use, the diode and capacitor are also useful. The wire in cookers is heat resistant and very flexible,, useful for meter leads and the amount of asbestos found in domestic appliance is minimal. People go one about asbestos and rightly so, but not many consider brake lining dust and dust on the road side when walking along a main road, which I'm reliably told is very much more harmful. John