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Went to boil some water to make some cup-o-noodles and I got rewarded with arching from the burner!
Got a couple of cool Jacob's ladder style arcs off the pan before I got the switch shut off.
DAMMIT!
The stove top is original to the house and dates back to 1969.
And you can still get parts!
While in the process of finding the model number of the stove, I found the ceramic insulator/isolator block around the leads to the OTHER 8" burner had broken somehow.
That puts the big burners out of service until parts arrive.
So I'm getting two 8" burners for it. $65 each.
The 6" burners are $50 and we're deferring replacement because the do many fewer miles than the big burners.
Life happened and, hours later, I decided to finish making my cup-o-noodle and the rear burners weren't working.
Turns out the fuse on one leg of the oven/range circuit had done it's job when the burner arced!
In the process of troubleshooting this I discovered that the 20 amp fuse under the stove is for a 110v plug that runs on one leg of the range/stove circuit. I checked it because turning on the rear burner restored current to the plug.
I replaced the fuse and ordered more. The smallest pack of the 40 amp fuses I can order is a 10 pack. SIGH. Lifetime supply, I guess.
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