Reply #7: For old appliances, that is true [View All]

[MajorChode]

With old appliances, it's generally one or two relatively cheap parts which are easily changed. With newer appliances everything is electronically controlled and the parts are very expensive. I replaced the electronics board in my oven only to have it go out again a few weeks later. Come to find out the cooling fan had gone out so I had to replace the fan and the electronics board again, both of which were expensive. Who would have thought that electronics and heat don't go together? The fan is an electro-mechanical device which has a finite life span which pretty much negates any advantage that an electronics control gives you. Older ovens lasted forever and in the rare instances when they would break, the repairs were relatively cheap and easy. Ironically when you get into the high end commercial ovens, they go back to mostly mechanical controllers.