Thanks for the reminder, Mons -- that had slipped my mind!
*Writes note to self to get three fire extinguishers for new house.*

Lame!

Oh, no, glatt's pretty clever.

I think he was saying the oven is lame if you have to go through all of that just to get to the panels.

I was actually pretty impressed at how hard it was to service my oven. To take the side panels off you have to remove like 4 things on each side. But to remove each of those 4 things, you have to remove another 4 things. Each component I looked at was set up in a similar way. It's like an Escher staircase. But a complicated one.

Anyway, I decided the squeaky springs pulling up the door are funny and not super annoying.

I think HungLikeJesus was making a joke. ;)

But there is insulation on both sides. And it is a bitch to get to it. I'll never forget my battle w/it. Horrific. Like I said, I just bought a new one. This one has no openings anywhere anything can go thru. The folks at the appliance store thought I was nutso. I was looking at the back and bottom of the range more than I cared about the range itsself.
And this one is a smooth top, too. Which I recommend. Nothing can get inside from the top either.

not really an option for me, so I hope whatever is making the smell will burn off.

want you guys to know I got a fire extinguisher and am now cleaning my oven. It stopped smoking after about 1/2 hour.

hope it takes care of the problem--we'll see

excellent! that should be a good start. Does it still smell at all?

Can we trade our ball gags for nose clips?

Good luck.

it still smells, but it doesn't seem as bad. We'll see what happens after I'm done.

um . . . ball gags?

cellar history.

old tag line: "That's it! Ball gags for everyone!"

Anyone else remember it?

I don't. But I wondered why we had to choose between the two; can't we keep the ball gags and ADD nose plugs? Oh, yeah...I guess breathing is a factor.

It wasn't a tagline, it was the user title of Troubleshooter.

No, I have no fucking idea why I remember that. This is why there's no space in my head for anything useful.