It was Holy Thursday and my husband turned on the oven to make our traditional lamb. Being busy in the kitchen with other things, I glanced over at the stove once or twice. Eventually it dawned on me that time had passed but the display still said 150° which is the default. I opened the oven and it was stone cold. We tried unplugging it, turning it off and trying again. It didn't work. My husband hauled out the roaster. For Easter, I bake nutrolls because it makes me feel connected to my grandma. My mind was on the issue of baking the next couple days!
Ironically this happened one other Easter, and this same model stove was under warranty at the time but Best Buy would not fix it, they just replaced it. There were no Samsung repairmen in the area they said.
After the kids were in bed I got online. I suspected it could be the ignitor. The first time I replaced an ignitor was in a Frigidaire oven. My dad could fix about anything, but at that time he couldn't get down and into the oven, so he walked and talked me through it. The second time I just watched a video from this site to refresh my memory and was able to complete the repair myself.
I ordered the part at about 10 pm Thursday. I built a plan B of our oldest son baking the prepared rolls in his apartment on Holy Saturday. When I saw the tracking said the part would arrive Saturday, I was excited. Would it arrive in time to bake? Sure enough it arrived before 10 am. No plan B necessary. I walked our 15 year old through the repair, though really he pretty much did it all himself. I just had to remind him to be careful, pay attention to how things came out so they could be put back properly, etc. Heck, I was like the kid holding the flashlight because he took over. But it felt good to pass this knowledge on. My dad showed me and I got to show him. Dad is gone, but his legacy lives on. ??
AppliancePartsPros basically saved the baking of the nutrolls for Easter!
I would say the Samsung was more of a pain than the Frigidaire because of the position of the screws holding the ignitor. It was an awful angle, and getting them back in was the trickiest part. My son found magnetizing his tools helpful but screws still got dropped. He used a strong magnet to retrieve them.