It was Thanksgiving Evening and the new heating element I ordered arrived! I was thrilled because I would be cooking all the next day and a properly working oven would make it go much better. I had watched the video and it looked simple enough. I removed the old element, one side came out easy the other did not. As it turned out the power wire was laying on a portion of the element and it had melted to it. Despair set in as I was having a house full of guests and now it ;looked like no oven.
So here we were two upset women looking at a black hole in our oven wondering what to do. after much effort we removed the oven from the counter (it was a built in) and opened up the back. The burnt wire was obvious. A quick trip to Lowe's, well not so quick, we had to read a lot of wire to find one of the correct gage and rated for internal appliance wiring and the right connectors along with a lesson on how to use shrink wrap and crimps. We returned home made and installed the new wire and replaced all the parts with the new element and it worked perfectly.
So Thanksgiving dinner was saved from what looked like might be take out Chinese!