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what happened (stove element fire/welding)
ihmmy
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So, making turkey soup, I was using our big burner on medium high. All of a sudden the burner caught fire. Took the big pot off, put it onto a pot holder, turned to go blow out the fire and then it was arcing, like turned white and when we (my fiance did this, I should say... fire scary) turned off the burner it completely stopped... we looked at the bottom of the element it looks like it started welding itself o_O Obviously we're replacing the element, but I was wondering if anyone had an idea as to why this happened
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It's basically a wire inside of some insulation coated with some kind of metal.
When a short occurs it will cause that sort of "welding" look.
Replace the element, don't turn it on again, obviously.
Also, you should be able to use a multimeter to test if it was a failure of the element.
Just remove it from the circuit before you do this of course. There are likely guides online somewhere.
It was just... weird, and cool, but scary. Yay for it nearly definitely not being a bigger problem than replacing the element!