element in stove blew up

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Jim

Not sure about your stove element, but some are hollow tubes that have a wire wound up inside it and some insulating material. Probably wore through the insulating material and the electric arc is what blew the hole in the element.

I think you nailed it. You can buy a replacement and install it quite easily

Might be broken. You should consider replacing the element.

Thoughts? Sure, the element "blew up".

R&R at your own risk.

"Edee em" wrote in news:Lnp6n.5501$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe19.iad:

Thoughts? Yea. I don't think duct tape will do the trick this time.

Thanks guys

I get from your responses that this is not an unusual event. I never heard of it so I thought it was worse than it seemed.

As always, thanks!

While it does not often hapen, it is not all that unusual. It is one of the more common ways the element goes bad. It either blows a hole in the element or the wire just burns into and the element quits heating. Sometimes the element can bur into and then one of the ends sags down and touches the tube and that blows the hole in the element.