RE: Re: [OT] Oven woes

["Hawes,Timothy Edward \(GEG\)" <haweste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John McManus  Sent: 19 October 2004 13:56
>
> I had a Phillips microwave... it was kind of different in
> that the antennae moved, rather than having a revolving plate
> on which you set your food.

I think I had one of these too - a SpaceCube model IIRC, with a door
that was hinged at the bottom instead of the side :-)

> It was going strong at 9 years

Yup, me too, or more like 13 (?) years. Only replaced it at the
beginning of this year after it went bang. Literally :-(

> when the 3 door kitchen cupboard decided to leap off the
> wall, only stopping on its way down to crash into the TV &
> microwave that were sitting on the worktop below the cupboard.

That's a bit dramatic.

> I was away at the time & got a distressed phone call from my
> wife who had just walked past the cupboard, caught something
> moving out of the corner of her eye & turned to see the
> crockery, glasses, tins etc flying out of the cupboard
> shelves towards her.  It was a bit of a shock for her.

I bet !


Cheers,

Tim H.

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