Ge WB31M8 Burn Bowl Bl OEM Part

I wrote this short article on my repair procedure. I hope that you'll be able to use it. Replacing Drip Pans in a Sealed-Burner Gas Cooktop or Range Sealed burner drips drip pans (burner bowls) are attached to aluminum burners with steel screws that can corrode and bond into the aluminum, thereby making it impossible to remove the screws with a screw driver. Years of boil-overs that leave liquid trapped in the hot, moist environment under the burner trim rings increase the rate of corrosion. Removing the trim ring when cleaning up boil-overs slows this corrosion. To begin removing a corroded-in screw, twist off its head with a battery-powered, low-speed drill with its clutch set at a low number. When the screw heads are all removed, the drip pan can be lifted off. Then, to remove each corroded-in screw shaft: (1) support the underside of the burner body with a small block of wood; (2) cut off the portion of the screw shaft that extends above the burner flange using a Dremel tool or piece of hack saw blade; (3) center-punch the screw shaft with a spring punch; (4) drill through the screw shaft with a 1/16” hardened drill bit; (5) enlarge the hole with a 3/32” drill bit; and (6) tap the hole to the thread size of the replacement screws. Set the drip pan in place and install the new screws. Applying anti-seize compound to the new screw threads will slow corrosion, making the screws easier to remove in the future. An alternative procedure, if there is room on the burner flange, is to flush-cut-off the corroded-in screw shafts, then drill and tap the new holes adjacent to the old screws. This avoids having to drill and tap into the hard steel of the old screw shafts. To assure proper alignment with the drip pan holes, complete each tapped hole before beginning the next, using the drip pan as a template for centering each hole. Remove the drip pan while drilling and tapping. The new hole locations will result in the burner grate to being a few degrees rotated, which should be of no consequence. Another alternative method, which eliminates tapping the holes, is to install the drip pans with pop rivets rather than screws. However, rivet compression may crack the drip pan porcelain, and future removal of the drip pans will require drilling out the rivets, again risking damaging the drip pan porcelain.