This user hasn't filled out their profile yet.
Get quick access to guides, parts and answers for your devices
This user hasn't filled out their profile yet.
If you take the parts out from below the switch, make sure they go back in correctly. Best to take a photo. At the bottom is usually an adjustment screw. Next goes the saddle which has a hole in the middle and two bent lugs that should be bent up towards you when the saddle is in position. There are four pegs the saddle sits between, it has notches in the edges. Then the bimetal strip, on mine the writing was towards me and the small notch at one end should face the terminal lugs. Then the pellet which heats up (this can go either way up). Finally the switch mechanism can be inserted and carefully screwed in until the screw bottoms out (don’t over torque or you will strip it)
If the bimetal strip is upside down (as in my first attempt) then it will bend the wrong way and the interlock won’t work.
The replacement capacitors must be X2 rated for safety. I would suggest polypropylene for longer life (PP), the originals are oiled paper.