Oven Imploded: Just the right moment.

Danthus · 14 May 2013 at 21:03

Monkeynut said:
So is this a dead cert on cheap ovens? Or is it to do with it heating up too quickly?

It happens on really expensive ovens, it is just defects in the glass.

I have been to them where people have come back off holiday and found the door glass has smashed.

Gtiracer · 14 May 2013 at 21:04

Same thing happened to my sister in law when she stayed in one of those static caravans earlier this year. Even though glass flew everywhere and they were in the caravan at the time thankfully no one got hurt.

They received £20 in food vouchers from the park

Danthus · 14 May 2013 at 21:04

Anox said:
new kitchen nearly finished.

Seriously, tile all the way back if you can. The amount of appliances we go to that can't be removed because they have been tiled in is frightening.

SexyGreyFox · 14 May 2013 at 21:04

Monkeynut said:
So is this a dead cert on cheap ovens? Or is it to do with it heating up too quickly?

Most of the breakages happened while building them so had never been turned on.
In the test lab there was no specific reason why door glass broke so we put it down to cheap glass.
When the glass was made in Wales we never had problems and then I think it started coming from Czechoslovakia.

Col_M · 14 May 2013 at 21:06

So it was an implosion outwards? I think that's generally called an explosion.

Monkeynut · 14 May 2013 at 21:08

Dimple said:
Most of the breakages happened while building them so had never been turned on.
In the test lab there was no specific reason why door glass broke so we put it down to cheap glass.
When the glass was made in Wales we never had problems and then I think it started coming from Czechoslovakia.

That's really concerning as it could take your eye out!

Anox · 14 May 2013 at 21:10

I was lucky that I was at the dining table with the case to the right of the pick, otherwise im sure I would have some shards in me.

Wizzfizz · 14 May 2013 at 21:10

So it was actually an explosion then?

SexyGreyFox · 14 May 2013 at 21:12

Monkeynut said:
That's really concerning as it could take your eye out!

To be honest I've never seen one break and it shoot out where it could take your eye out or else we would have had a lot of one eyed workers.
The glass just broke and fell to the floor and workers would have to put a new door on and usually work on top of the glass until gap time came.
If this has shot across the room then some other factor has taken place.

Anox · 14 May 2013 at 21:12

Wizzfizz said:
So it was actually an explosion then?

implosion due to a vaccum, the glass is then thrown outwards

antijoke · 14 May 2013 at 21:13

I guess the crysis benchmark didn't go to well.

Tackle_Berry · 14 May 2013 at 21:15

Am I missing something what does pc building have to do with it?

Anox · 14 May 2013 at 21:17

I was in the middle of it when the oven went kablam. and yes the crysis benchmark was a bit too much for the poor oven.

antijoke · 14 May 2013 at 21:27

Ash2097 said:
Am I missing something what does pc building have to do with it?

He got the watercooling wrong.

Deleted member 77746 · 14 May 2013 at 21:28

It's a good job no1 was standing in front of that when it blew...

-BA- · 14 May 2013 at 21:30

Should have water cooled it

LordSplodge · 14 May 2013 at 21:38

mrbell1984 said:
It's a good job no1 was standing in front of that when it blew...

Safety glass. Nothing to worry about.

Orionaut · 14 May 2013 at 21:54

OldCoals said:
Seriously, tile all the way back if you can. The amount of appliances we go to that can't be removed because they have been tiled in is frightening.

I can well believe it. I also wonder why really important stuff like main stopcocks are inevitably located in inaccessible locations

Recently I had to help to remove an old washing machine from a friends house. The washing machine taps had seized solid and when I tried to turn off the main stopcock so I could replace them, that was seized too. I managed to turn it off eventually but it was a bit like James Herriot sticking his arm up a Cow! the stopcock was actually in a corner, in a bathroom unit behind the toilet and behind the soil pipe!

WTF are the builders thinking! :mad:

Anox · 14 May 2013 at 22:57

I dont know, evil things prob

rubberduck · 15 May 2013 at 01:02

Anox said:
implosion due to a vaccum, the glass is then thrown outwards

What? Ovens don't run under reduced pressure or vacuum so I don't understand... There will be slightly increased pressure on the inside the oven due to the heated air so if anything that would create an explosion but the pressure difference would be neither here nor there so it isn't really either an explosion or an implosion... Just the glass making a loud noise as it failed.