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Belling Range Cooker Terminal Block.

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I have just connected up a customer's new large Belling range cooker. It is two to three times the size of a domestic free standing cooker.

 

On the back of the cooker there is a warning label. It says to tighten the terminal screws securely or problems may arise. There is a picture of a battery screwdriver with a red cross over it.

 

I tightened the earth terminal screw by hand and the threads stripped.

 

I tightened the live terminal screw and again the threads  stripped.

 

Fortunately there were two spare tabs on the L terminals like Lucar connectors, so I used these for the stripped threaded terminal wires.

 

The earth (C.P.C.) had to be made off by me using screws etc.

 

Very poor quality to my mind. Some people would have left the stripped threaded screws only just tight with bad consequences.

 

Belling has lost the plot regarding quality.

 

Z.

 

 

 

 

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    As I mentioned in a reply to one of your posts concerning an all electric range cooker, l have recently fitted one at home and didn't encounter any such problems and found the terminal screws sufficiently robust. Perhaps  you got a Friday afternoon job or maybe a Norfolk farmer's mighty wrist.

    I have no connection to any range cooker manufacturer etc etc!

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    Grumpy: 
     …or maybe a Norfolk farmer's mighty wrist.

    Zoomy? He's an old bloke and couldn't knock the skin off a rice pudding. ?

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    Or punch his way out of a wet paper bag as my father was wont to say. Along with muscles “like knots in cotton”

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    Grumpy: 
     

    As I mentioned in a reply to one of your posts concerning an all electric range cooker, l have recently fitted one at home and didn't encounter any such problems and found the terminal screws sufficiently robust. Perhaps  you got a Friday afternoon job or maybe a Norfolk farmer's mighty wrist.

    I have no connection to any range cooker manufacturer etc etc!

    Is yours a Belling?

     

    Z.

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    Chris Pearson: 
     

    Grumpy: 
     …or maybe a Norfolk farmer's mighty wrist.

    Zoomy? He's an old bloke and couldn't knock the skin off a rice pudding. ?

    A serious report will be  made to the R.P.P.S. I am sure that it will be seriously logged and action taken. The Rice Pudding Protection Society has teeth you know.

     

    Z.

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    Grumpy: 
     

    As I mentioned in a reply to one of your posts concerning an all electric range cooker, l have recently fitted one at home and didn't encounter any such problems and found the terminal screws sufficiently robust. Perhaps  you got a Friday afternoon job or maybe a Norfolk farmer's mighty wrist.

    I have no connection to any range cooker manufacturer etc etc!

    6.0mm2 cables need to be securely terminated. I have never had screws of the size encountered today strip threads. The Norfolk farmers are doing laudable work at present growing potatoes, grain crops and green leafy things, for your chips, beer, bread and green leafy meals. But people will not be able to cook if the cooker terminal threads strip and the wires come loose. So, just what is strip farming?

     

    Z.

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    Other people have range cooker terminal problems as well 

     

    electrical - Why did my electric range wiring burn out at the terminal block? - Home Improvement Stack Exchange

     

    Z.

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    Another example of a carp modern cooker terminal block that burnt out. Oh! It's another Belling model. A pork pie dinner prize and bottle of Muggins' Stout goes to the first reader to notice the deliberate mistake in this video tutorial.

     

    How to Fix an Electric Cooker Terminal Block - Bing video

     

    Z.

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