Self cleaning

[Hexhead]

My neighbors mower broke down and I have been mowing it for him. I went to mow behind his garage and saw an oven with a flat top. It's an electric self cleaning. (more insulation) He said he set it out there because one of the top elements burnt out and the digital oven display would only read 300 degrees no matter how many times he pressed the button for it to go higher. He said it was going to cost about 500 bucks to bring up to snuff, and if I wanted it I could have it. (yea!) It has no cord so tomorrow I'll get one and see whats happening. If it going higher but just not reading it on the read out or is that's all she'll go. ( I have a thermo gun) If its messed up what would be your suggestions. Can I some how use the top element to put them on the side of the oven. A wring genus I'm not, please don't get too techy. I'm using a table top now and this is a real find!

Thanks

[JTW37]

I'm assuming your not building an oven from that one? Not sure what your asking, but I assume that you are expecting the bottom element to NOT work? If that's it, work or not, you can and I do use the top element. But with one element it will take longer to heat. Check the other post about ready to wire, I have a couple of web sites to get elements and other things from.

[fl70]

He was questioning about using the stovetop coils.
Anythings possible. If you have a bad element in the oven it is probably a lot easier to just replace the bad element than to fanagle the coils into the setup.

[JTW37]

Ohhh Okay! Forgive my dumbassin. I was just talking to my son about that very same notion today. I have 4 elements, two X two are a like. They are 2100 Watts and 1250 watts. That come out to 6700 watts. With that and divide by 240 gives them 28 amps. I was thinking of combining them with my 8100 watts, but the draw is to much for my 50 amp breaker. The two smaller ones will work with what I have now but no more. Was thinking of putting them on the bottom and wire them through a switch of their own so I can turn them off when my oven ramps up to where I want it. Maybe not.

[Hexhead]

Jtw37

You mentioned that you had a couple of sites where elements can be bought reasonably, but you didn't put down where?

If I can just get the bottom element to work I'd be happy and I will work on getting the top units into the inside later.

I wired it up today and a transformer started to smoke. I had the top of the oven off (one of those totally flat kind) no elements exposed.

There is a flat circuit board about 3 X 7" and on it there was this coil of copper wire that was wrapped until it started to fry.

I can't find a serial number or Model number anywhere on this unit I've turned it (literally) upside down. The wiring paper in with it was under the top burner and said "diagram # 8104P176-60" I think I saw the year 1998 somewhere on it too. Anyone know where I might find the Magic Chef numbers on this (might be 98 unit).

Thanks

[JTW37]

Check out this thread. It's still current.
ready for oven to be wired