By jacobtothe on Skatehive
The title is a reference to the famous folk song which was first published as a poem in the 1870s, so if you're not familiar with it, I recommend the version by the Sons of the Pioneers. However, in this case, I'm also referring to the appliance which combines an oven and cooktop. The Mother Thing had a problem, you see. The bottom element in the oven had begun to fail some time ago, slightly twisting and deforming. Then it burnt out altogether at one spot. Dad is getting less agile with age, and would have had a heck of a time contorting himself to get everything swapped out, so it fell to me. This would all have been easier had manuals been available, but no such luck. I sourced a replacement element semi-locally, and set to work a couple days later making the actual swap. As anyone does these days, I did some research online with sites like Wikihow. As one ought to expect, things went wrong anyway in short order. Step 1: Safety first Find your circuit breaker panel and turn off powe