Zoom-boing
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What model Kenmore? I was looking at some and they seem to have pretty good ratings. Most important feature ... does it have audible signal elimination or at least a volume control on the beep? Drives me nuts to hear that thing.
I talked to a repair guy today. He said in all likelihood it was the magnetron (that sounds like a monster that Godzilla would fight lol) and since our mw is only a couple hundred bucks kind and 8 years old it probably wouldn't be worth fixing, cost-wise.
i can check when i get home, but, yeah, the part goes for about $80-90 and probably that much to get the guy there to fix it, so he gave you good advice.
Meanwhile in other news you can buy a brand new "state of the art" microwave for 75 bucks...
You can get a small counter-top mw for that but it will likely be a shit machine. Bought my kid one for her freshman year at college - it had to be 750 watts or less - it didn't even last the year. Started coming on by itself after only a few months of not a whole lot of use.
I did pick up a small (not tiny though) Sharp counter top one and it's just ok. I thought that getting a counter top one then replacing the over-the-range one with just a range hood would be the easier/cheaper option. Uh, no. Every range hood I'm seeing is running in the $130 and up range and they're all hard-wired. We had that changed over to a plug when we bought the mw 8 years ago, not paying to have it switched back so returning the counter-top one and just replacing the over-the-range one.
This whole thing is sucking up waaaaay too much of my time. Problem is that there isn't a lot of choice in the stores. There's a local appliance store I'm heading to later today and if that's a bust then Sears tomorrow (of course they closed the Sears down that was 10 min from me. ) and if that's a bust then Amazon. Ridiculous if you ask me.