{"id":1625,"date":"2022-07-01T05:35:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T13:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.davebaar.com\/wordpress\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2022-07-01T05:49:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T13:49:16","slug":"fixing-a-popcorn-machine-for-the-campbell-river-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/2022\/07\/01\/fixing-a-popcorn-machine-for-the-campbell-river-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing a Popcorn Machine for the Campbell River Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I fixed a couple of items recently for the Campbell River Museum. The most interesting and unusual one was their popcorn maker, apparently a popular device for the young visitors (and some older ones). This is a Nostalgia brand unit. The machine was described as having a stirring motor that wasn’t working, but inspection revealed that the problem was that a solid state thermal fuse inside the heating pot had failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Heating pot. Just remove the 3 machine screws on the perimeter to disassemble.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Quick resistance check showed that the pot AC input was an open circuit. Disassembly and resistance check showed the solid state thermal fuse to be the culprit, a 240V, 10A, 240C spec device. I had an exact replacement in my parts bins, so crimped that into place (no soldering! this is inside a hot device that makes edible stuff!) and re-assembled. Tested with some popping corn per the instructions. It works! A fun, quick repair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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partial disassembly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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mid surgery, thermal fuse removed (it normally is located insulated within in the metal tab above where the yellow-green wire is attached to the case.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I fixed a couple of items recently for the Campbell River Museum. The most interesting and unusual one was their popcorn maker, apparently a popular device for the young visitors (and some older ones). This is a Nostalgia brand unit. The machine was described as having a stirring motor that wasn’t working, but inspection revealed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1643,"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}