Third safety tip of the day ... pull cords out of outlets by their strain relief or housing, not by the cable. You can eventually get a fireball at the outlet/plug if enough strands of wire are broken on a high wattage "thing". Ask me how I know.
I make a habit of always pulling the vacuum cord out of the wall from up to 15 feet away by pressing on the cord wind button on my canister vac every week for a decade and haven't ever had a problem. I suspect those who do are yanking it at an angle... in which case it will strain the wire repeatedly and cause it to break.
The toaster also has a mechanical timer that can be salvaged. The voltage converter can also be used for various projects such as heating nichrome wire, used as a dimmer switch motor speed convertor etc.
Be safe in your tinkering journey... Remember that some items (Capacitors) have stored energy that need to be discharged before you start handling them. It could be lethal if not discharged properly.
I had brutally salvaged a similar oven sometime ago and after I got some tidbit knowledge in electronics I felt empty when I could have just replaced the faulty nichrome loop and clipped to a working timer😭.
My toaster had the same problem, so what issue n repair the broken toaster? Since your video the heater element is working fine but why it did not work?
Is it possible to modify (safely) a working toaster oven with quartz heating elements, for use a pre heater for a laptop m/b reflow project? Not to use the whole oven, just the lower heating area, maybe add one extra element for even heat distribution. Thanks
Don't see why it wouldn't be! Make sure that all the wires are properly insulated to avoid shock (all insulation & mounting materials must be high-heat resistant of course)
Excellent video, one constructive piece of advice tho; Maybe next time keep the hillbilly wire splices off of anything that could -I don’t know, say….. become electrified and bar-b-q the unsuspecting DIYer. I was cringing the whole time when I saw the splice resting on the edge of the metal housing, electricity can be a little jokester and wont necessarily stay where we want it to or expect it to stay. It likes to cheat by jumping and arcing it’s way to the easiest and quickest route to ground. (Okay so it’s only 120 and won’t “bar-b-q” anyone, lol, but you get what I mean).
I have an old toaster oven from at least 15 years ago and been using it the last 4 years. I wanted a bigger one so i could cook with a lager pyrex rectangle dish for frozen meals. A 59 dollar one brand new from Wally world at Christmas time 2019. I tried to cook with it a few times however the TASTE OF THE FOOD WAS TERRIBLE..metal taste ..like what a cheap chinese heating element or that diffuser made with some cheap alloy to save a few pennies. IDK. But I am back to my old one for now. This video kinda makes me want to scour old garage sales for an element and diffuser from an old one and put it into the new box..I don't know. I am not a metallurgist but somethings ruins the taste of the food.. Any ideas greatly appreciated.
As long as its 120VAC it will run ok. If it isn'y and you still have the oven you could always take the transformer that it was using and use that as the power supply
Medium Wavelength Infrared or I see them sometimes called Quartz heating elements. On my toaster oven the element has written "120V 550W" I googled that and found a page that sells them and says they can output 980C° maximum. I was also curious so I hope this helps!
Third safety tip of the day ... pull cords out of outlets by their strain relief or housing, not by the cable. You can eventually get a fireball at the outlet/plug if enough strands of wire are broken on a high wattage "thing". Ask me how I know.
I make a habit of always pulling the vacuum cord out of the wall from up to 15 feet away by pressing on the cord wind button on my canister vac every week for a decade and haven't ever had a problem.
I suspect those who do are yanking it at an angle... in which case it will strain the wire repeatedly and cause it to break.
The toaster also has a mechanical timer that can be salvaged. The voltage converter can also be used for various projects such as heating nichrome wire, used as a dimmer switch motor speed convertor etc.
DIY dashboard cutter 😁😁
Hilarious - "The how-to for the industrial vacuum former will come out in ahhh, um, 😶,..., Thanks for watching!" 😂 love it:)
Nice heater elements
Thank you. I've also got a junk toaster oven that I am cannibalizing for parts. Glad to see how straightforward it's going to be. 😁😁
Sweet! Good luck with your project dude!
Be safe in your tinkering journey... Remember that some items (Capacitors) have stored energy that need to be discharged before you start handling them. It could be lethal if not discharged properly.
with the heating elements could the be used to heat up water for a bread proofing box
I had brutally salvaged a similar oven sometime ago and after I got some tidbit knowledge in electronics I felt empty when I could have just replaced the faulty nichrome loop and clipped to a working timer😭.
My toaster had the same problem, so what issue n repair the broken toaster? Since your video the heater element is working fine but why it did not work?
Were do you buying the bulb … please LMO
Is it possible to still use this without the other bulb? Will it not explode? I accidentally broke the upper bulb :(
I'm cannibalizing a junk toaster oven to fix just that problem on a friend's toaster oven.
Is it possible to modify (safely) a working toaster oven with quartz heating elements, for use a pre heater for a laptop m/b reflow project? Not to use the whole oven, just the lower heating area, maybe add one extra element for even heat distribution. Thanks
Don't see why it wouldn't be! Make sure that all the wires are properly insulated to avoid shock (all insulation & mounting materials must be high-heat resistant of course)
Excellent video, one constructive piece of advice tho; Maybe next time keep the hillbilly wire splices off of anything that could -I don’t know, say….. become electrified and bar-b-q the unsuspecting DIYer. I was cringing the whole time when I saw the splice resting on the edge of the metal housing, electricity can be a little jokester and wont necessarily stay where we want it to or expect it to stay. It likes to cheat by jumping and arcing it’s way to the easiest and quickest route to ground.
(Okay so it’s only 120 and won’t “bar-b-q” anyone, lol, but you get what I mean).
I have an old toaster oven from at least 15 years ago and been using it the last 4 years. I wanted a bigger one so i could cook with a lager pyrex rectangle dish for frozen meals. A 59 dollar one brand new from Wally world at Christmas time 2019. I tried to cook with it a few times however the TASTE OF THE FOOD WAS TERRIBLE..metal taste ..like what a cheap chinese heating element or that diffuser made with some cheap alloy to save a few pennies. IDK.
But I am back to my old one for now. This video kinda makes me want to scour old garage sales for an element and diffuser from an old one and put it into the new box..I don't know. I am not a metallurgist but somethings ruins the taste of the food..
Any ideas greatly appreciated.
Probably manufacturing oils burning off
Will the quartz tube explode if there's a chip in it?
The only thing in these tubes is just the heating element, so there's no circuitry in them
Great tutorial.. i do not know your name... But thank you!
Could that heat element could be use for making a electric melting furnace. Diy
Yep it'd melt most plastics or low temp metals -- steel or iron though, not near hot enough
Hi ..nice video ..may I know wherer to buy this Heating element?
Thanks! These I just got from any old toaster. You could always search online for heating elements of your choosing or pickup an old toaster
Looks like quartz heater
Are the filament in parallel or in series ?
This particular one was in parallel, would be worth checking your toaster's configuration prior to tear down
Could I do this with a oven heating element? I found they have two connectors at the end.
As long as its 120VAC it will run ok. If it isn'y and you still have the oven you could always take the transformer that it was using and use that as the power supply
What's the name of this heating element?
Medium Wavelength Infrared or I see them sometimes called Quartz heating elements. On my toaster oven the element has written "120V 550W" I googled that and found a page that sells them and says they can output 980C° maximum. I was also curious so I hope this helps!
How hot do they get?
I really don't know actually, I'd guess ~900 degrees, depends on your elements
So no copper.oh well.
is the heating element 120v?
Yep! just 120VAC works fine
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Gotta say. This was not really very helpful. Heck. You have to tear the thing completely apart just to change the bulbs.