One of my customers had bought a new house and asked me to replace the electric hob and oven with gas appliances. After we isolated the electrics we removed the built in oven and found this mess.

A blob of brittle tape from the heat build-up and coated in grease.

If you look close you can see that the earth wire on the left side of the connector block isn’t actually hooked up. As both the hob and oven were stainless steel cased it was an electrocution just waiting to happen had the the conditions been right.

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