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Old 26th Jun 2019, 5:55 pm   #13
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Default Re: 1960s Belling cooker- element issues!

Our daily use Belling Cooker is from 1981, it was a wedding present. Over the years it has only required a couple of elements. We get most of them from Sismans Electrical on The Wicker in Sheffield, usually from stock. It appears that these firms have books with pictures of all the elements so a similar one should be easy to find.

The small oven door was sprung loaded to keep it shut. The NOS springs started to fail at ever shorter intervals, presumably the steel had “hardened” over the years and become brittle. Eventually Sismans ran out of springs so now the door is held shut by the very small but powerful magnets now available glued on with high temperature epoxy. Much to my surprise they are still successfully holding the door shut after a year!

Hope you find what you need, they are worth preserving and using.

Peter
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