The oven light has gone in our Neff that was installed a year or so ago. The instructions are quite clear about how to change the lamp - start by removing the cover. The cover, however, has other ideas. It rotates a bit - but this just looks like the housing it screws into is rotating a bit. I can't get it to unscrew nohow.
Any suggestions as to how to loosen it off?
It just works.
We've a Neff with a very obstinate lamp cover. A rubber glove helps a lot, although I'm not sure why. Perhaps more effort can go into rotation, when one has to concentrate less on getting a tight grip?
Coo err lor' lumme strike a light. Blimey who'd have thought it eh?
Thanks for that. I see this is a not-uncommon problem.
Thanks, I'll try that before investing in a glass gripper grabber.
lor' lumme strike a light. Blimey who'd have thought it eh? I resented paying £5 for a lump of plastic, had tried removing all shelves sticking head in oven to see why it wouldn't budge, using rubber gloves, using various cloths, using squeaky-clean hands etc, the tool got it off in seconds.
They ought to supply one with the damned ovens, while ordering you might as well add a couple of extra lamps to the order to save on P&P in future ...
our Bosch had the same problem.
The tool worked wonders. Also, make sure you are turning the right way.
I bought that tool when I had to replace the bulb. Glad I did.
I put a block of wood against it and hit it with a hammer.
-- Richard
SF "Site" dextrogrip gloves are very good - nice combination of extra grip without much loss of feel.
The rubber glove dint help, although a read of the User manual indicates that the RG is the thing to try first, followed by the plastic tool jobby if that fails. This latter comes in two varieties, one for the main & the other for the top oven. As it turns out the top oven cover removed v. easily to expose a 25W smaller blub rather than a
40W as used in the main oven.What a palaver.
Ah- the Bosch oven uses the same fittings in both ovens
Bot on my Bosch over...they are as stated for the Neff.
Lamps don't sound very good if they only last a year. I remember our old belling I don't think we ever changed a bulb in 20 years! Brian
First one lasted 8 years or more, second one 3 months, third is still hanging on after 3 years.
The official jobby to use came today. Of course it didn't work. As some people on Amazon noted, it just slipped round as the ribs on the glass are not that pronounced and the jobby is slightly oversize.
So I reduced the internal diameter by applying strips of duck tape. With a thickness of two strips it was a much tighter fit and voila! off it came. The lamp is unfortunately small edison screw, which would have been a bugger if it had been done up as tightly as the glass cover, luckily it wasn't too tight.
So, in short, we farted about AND THERE WAS LIGHT. And we saw that it was good.
SWMBO suggested we squirt a bit of WD40 at the join of the glass and the fitting, whether that in fact had a useful impact I know not.
I doubt it. It'll probably have evaporated after a couple of uses of the oven.
If it was me, I'd use graphite powder. And I'd still undo the glass cover a mm or two once it was fully screwed up.
silicone grease better at high temp and wont reek of fish
Perhaps my use of the past tense escaped your notice. I was referring to the possible value of WD40 in undoing the glass *today*, not at some arbitrary point in the future.
I left in slightly loose, in fact.
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