Microwaves

[Wookie]

Hmmm... I have an overhead stove style microwave. Seems to have broken, it turns on, clock works, you can program in anything, the timer winds down, but at the end the food is still cold. The fan is also pretty loud.

Now I'm not sure whether it's worth it to call someone to look at it. I'd anticipate the microwave is 10 - 20 years old. I'd guess 10, but it could be older. It's a Frigidaire. These stove-top ones seem to be quite a bit more expensive than the standard countertop ones .

Any suggestions? I don't want a new stove-top ones since in the next 2 - 4 years the kitchen will get re-done and who knows what will happen with the cabinet and stove areas.

Just buy a cheap counter top?

Are the stove-top ones difficult to install?

Thanks

[CaptainCrunch]

You need to replace the plutonium fuel rods in the back.

Or buy a new microwave

[Wookie]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

You need to replace the plutonium fuel rods in the back.

I'm sure that in your area plutonium is available in every corner drugstore, but in mine it's a little hard to come by

[Barnes]

You could buy an anti-matter conversion kit at Sears if you can't find any plutonium rods near you.

Or buy a new microwave.

[CaptainCrunch]

I wonder if I randomly put the term weapons grade plutonium into a post where I talk about a storage room in my basement if some computer in a basement somewhere puts out an alert to a shadowy cabal of government assassins.

[Hack&Lube]

No, he needs to re-energize the dilithium crystals. To do that, he needs to get the radioactive photons from a nuclear reactor and thus the plutonium fuel rods.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

No, he needs to re-energize the dilithium crystals. To do that, he needs to get the radioactive photons from a nuclear reactor and thus the plutonium fuel rods.

Excuse me officer can you tell me where I can find the nuclear wessels?

[Ducay]

Sounds to me like its outputting macrowaves

[Barnes]

Thread Hijacked!

Echelon, Echelon, Echelon, Echelon.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by Ducay

Sounds to me like its outputting macrowaves

If that happened, you'd get this:

[CaptainCrunch]

I don't know, there's something wrong with my tidalwave oven. Everytime I open the door I get drenched.

Should I try to get it fixed, or merely buy a new one?

[Barnes]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I don't know, there's something wrong with my tidalwave oven. Everytime I open the door I get drenched.

Should I try to get it fixed, or merely buy a new one?

Please reference this schedule and only open the door on the ebb as per manufacturers instructions.

http://www.waterlevels.gc.ca/cgi-bin...ion=5&stnnum=1

[Barnes]

My Shockwave oven has entrapped the Dinobots in some tar pits and then was entombed by a rockslide.

Should I buy a new one?

[Wookie]

Ffffuuuuuuuuu,

I'm feeling self conscious now, especially after the (much deserved) beating misskatt took.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by Barnes

My Shockwave oven has entrapped the Dinobots in some tar pits and then was entombed by a rockslide.

Should I buy a new one?

No, if you wait 4 million years, it will work again after being discovered by an Autobot probe which will save you a few bucks.

[KTrain]

Originally Posted by Wookie

Ffffuuuuuuuuu,

I'm feeling self conscious now, especially after the (much deserved) beating misskatt took.

It's ok, I was happy to see your post as I'm having the exact same problem with my microwave.

I was also happy to see the thread derailed with Star Trek and Back to the Future references.

[Art Vandelay]

No, no, no, No, this sucker's electrical, but it needs a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity I need.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by Art Vandelay

No, no, no, No, this sucker's electrical, but it needs a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity I need.

Jiggawatts my man! Jiggawatts!
http://1.21jiggawatts.com/

[Barnes]

In all seriousness, buy a new one because it probably is your stove fan as well.

[Bownesian]

I had a girlfriend in University whose mother was afraid of the microwave. When they turned it on in the kitchen, she would sing "Microwave..." and everyone would be obliged to leave the room while the microwave was on (and presumably emitting dangerous radiation).

The funny thing is, they went to the room on the other side of the wall behind the microwave. She didn't see the irony in expecting less than an inch of gypsum and paper to protect her from something that the lead shielded front of the oven did not.

My other microwave-related tidbit is to suggest that you break that sucker open. There are a couple of ring-shaped rare-earth magnets in there that are super strong and subsequently excellent for tying on the end of a string to pick up nails from the ground or fishing some drill bit out from behind your work bench or something like that...