neff oven lamp

Once I got it out I did wash it (mainly to get the washing-up liquid off it) but there wasn't any noticeable amount of baked-on residue on it, I think it's just a bad design (read the reviews of the removal tool in the O/P)

Not a fancy pyrolytic oven.

For a friend's oven I used a sort of 'rubber band' adjustable tool (ideal for taps, jars etc.) then put a smear of high-temperature moly grease on the threads. Luckily the glass is quite raised - about half the width of the band.

Having broken one with a proper removal tool, I suggest some sort of lube...

PTFE is toxic. Not suitable in anything likely to make contact with food. I don't know if it produces vapour when subject to high temperatures.

Was fine in tape recorders!

Such as frying pans?

Shouldn't be difficult is using oil that would normally vaporise at a lower temperature.

Olive oil?

It works well on the rails of our sliding shelves.

That's going to end up as glue when it ages.

Yes, that's the tool I have

After removing the shelves, door, top, back and one side, I could see that whole assembly, but not remove it without going even further.

But not at 200°C

And in taped water pipe joints?

I'm confused, Andy. I can't see which oven you mean, or is there only one model of Neff Oven?

I have a/THE Neff Oven and the glass cover comes out easily - just relying on my fingernails to prise it out of the fitting.

You write "the next time the lamp blew I could *NOT* get it out again". That means that "it" refers to the lamp, not the glass cover. Is that so?

PA

There are several Neff (and Bosch/Siemens models too) that share a common lampholder and cover for an SES 40W golfball.

This one the glass cover about 3" diameter unscrews, it is inconveniently sited in the corner of the roof, so you can't really grip it well, it has shallow ribs on the outside which the removal tool is intended to mesh with, except it "cams-off" too easily.

First time a lamp blew, I tried and failed without the tool, but succeeded with the tool. Second lamp that blew the tool didn't do the job, the glass cover was stuck. with the oven on its back and the socket having a generous squirt of washing-up liquid, I could put all my weight on the tool to prevent it camming off and after a few minutes it did budge.

Oddly at that point the instructions say do NOT unscrew the lamp, simply pull the old one out and push the new one in, which is rubbish of course, you can't do that with an SES lamp.

Just as well they don't sell pans coated in the stuff then... oh hang on a mo?

It is toxic if you get it hot enough to actually break down. Particularly so if you get it hot enough to burn.

Is PTFE common in tape recorders?

The glass cover in my Neff oven is athletics-track-shaped (===) and it flips away from the oven's inner lining. It is retained by two spring-steel strips mounted on the outer surface of the oven's lining.

My Neff oven is about 40 years old. If your oven is newer than that it seems that the design has regressed.

Odd, indeed. I've used a brief squirt of WD-40 at the bulb's ES - as easing oil - to get the bulb out in one piece. Awful things, ES bulbs.