How to change a bake element

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Grandma's Frigidaire Gallery range is over 10 years old, the bake element finally broke down.

Option 1: Buy a new range. After using my sleek smooth touch control panel LG range, grandma hugged her old Frigidaire even tighter. "Touch panel is terrible! I will not give up on those knobs!" LOL Besides, all 5 elements on the glass top work perfectly fine.

Option 2: Repair the old by replacing the broken bake element. YouTube comes to the rescue.
Great! Looks straight forward. Let's get working.

1. Turn off the break or unplug the old range. 
2. The broken part of the bake element
3. Take off the square fan cover, unscrew 3 long screws.
4. Follow the YouTube video above, take off the bake element, unscrew and pull out the bake element gently. Use the clothes pins to hold the wires in place. Disconnect the two terminals.
5. The most important points are the terminal type and the screw hole position on the plate. 
 6. Finding a replacement is not as easy as I thought. Found one in Home Depot, but the terminal type is screw-in instead of push-on, useless. But if you are lucky, you may find the correct one there, and it is only $41.75 + tax.

7. Copy down the model number and call around. 
 8. Got a matching replacement from Reliable Parts, $69 + tax. Old parts like this are ridiculously expensive in a world that one's first thought is to throw old and buy new. Repair is a word that is disappearing slowly from the dictionary, and sometimes it does NOT make sense financially. 
Reliable Parts
578 Bank Street, Ottawa ON
613-237-6666

9. Yeah! They fit perfectly. 
 10. Screw in the new bake element, and the fan cover. Power back. 
Happy baking, grandma! ;)
Before & After


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