any appliance engineers here?

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My Cooker has just blown.

So the story is, I was making a pot of soup where I had put too much water in and the pot started to boil over.

Soon after the cooker gave a loud flash and bang which tripped the fuse box, I put the Cooker switch back on but it instantly gives the same problem.


Any tips?
 
Sounds like one of the elements has blown mate, you can get replacements from local appliance engineers but I have no clue how much they would be, not much compared to a new cooker though.
 
Yeah, calling them 'engineers' belittles the proper title and education you need to be a proper engineer and then get chartered; not two bob and your uncle with a spanner is an engineer
 
Biohazard said:
Is it a big thing in your life?
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I find it an insult that I have to email a "parking engineer" because my pay and display ticket fell off my windscreen. I doubt he spent 4 years studying for his job title and probabaly hasn't spent thousands of hours studying for it either and won't come out owing £15k. By the end of my degree I'll have sat 46 exams and several 100% coursework modules, whereas this parking engineer probabaly attended a 1 day seminar and got given a notebook and sent on his way. And still gets lumped in to the same profession as me :mad::mad:

Bitter? Yes!

Not much to add to the thread, AtlanticP is probabaly right unless there's a fuse that's blown somewhere.
 
I doubt a fuse has blown if he can repeat the problem each time he turns the RCD/Overload switch. The water in the cooker is plainly shorting the circuit, which should have blown a fuse I would have thought. Alternatively it could be causing something to draw to much current. Whatever it is get a profesional in to look at it.
 
[TW]Fox;14744109 said:
If I'd gone through the considerable graft required to be a qualified engineer, damn right it would be a big thing in my life.

Engineers design things. Technicians fix them.
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Although I agree in the whole, that last part is not accurate. I will be in the maintenance and upgrades area of track, and there won't be any new designs for Bullhead/Flat bottom rail, or the points and crossing for a long long time.

We don't just design things, we do a lot more than that,. That's why it's such a highly regarded profession, and with a degree, experiences, and the associated skill set in it, you can go into a wide variety of industries.
 
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