The oven element in our kitchen shorted out about a month ago (always when I am out of town) and I did not get a replacement for about a week. After I installed it and turned on the heat to test it it REALLY sparked and for 3 weeks I have fiddled with it with no success.

My DW was getting madder and more frustrated with me and today she had an appliance repair guy come in to look at it. It took him 2 hours of searching but he finally found a small short and repaired it.

The good news was, it only cost $50.00, I thought it was going to be a lot more expensive.

Mike