OT I suspect, is my microwave about to die

[The Natural Philosopher]

Legal considerations preclude the answering of that question

[Richard]

So, you too learned the hard and painful way.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Always :-)

Freudian slip.

It's rather odd how the wisdom of age - the fruits of bitter experience

- is always misunderstood by the young who think that all things are possible, especially if they read it in a well crafted glossy advert.

[Brian Gaff]

Sounds like a dodgy light switch to me. Many have just a small extra switch for that part so could be nothing to do with the guts. If it were the same switch as the machine it would be doing the same with the magnetron as well.

No its not a loose bulb as if that were the case it would stay off when the door was open.

Brian

[meow2222]

snip

60 & 100w rarely do, but 15 & 25w much more often do. If you look at the filament path its evident why. Also the low power lamps have floppy filaments.

NT

[Graham.]

My first uW was a Plustron and it had two lamps. One lit up when the machine was cooking, and the other lit up only when the door was open.

[Sam Plusnet]

Thanks.

Best laugh I've had since I saw how the urinals had been fitted in a Liverpool Police Station.

[Nick Odell]

(microwave bulbs cf motor car bulbs)

I didn't know my microwave oven had a panel light until the heating engineer came to fix the boiler a couple of weeks ago. I was out, so he let himself in. I was out, so I'm guessing that he humped the stuff out of the way of the boiler rather more roughly than he might have done, had I been there. Next time I used the microwave and every time after that, the front panel glowed magnificently in use. It's not as though it's a new microwave oven, either: it was second-hand when I bought it round about 1987.

Nick

[Graham.]

As I was cleaning my company car prior to it being sent to auction, I found a little glove-box on the drivers side that I didn't know was there.

[whisky-dave]

What do you do if you only want a light meal then ;-)

[The Natural Philosopher]

eat a garlic bulb

[The Other Mike]

Sounds like something VW fit