Stove In

This is the old one.
It may look fine here, but if you get a closer look, a few problems will become apparent.
You will notice that the burner elements don't appear to be exactly level.
This is because they are all pretty much "tore up".
You will also notice that there appears to be a knob missing.
And there's a reason this knob is not there.
It seems that if one were to attempt to use the burner controlled by this particular knob, this stove had a tendency to "bite".
This was not an ideal situation, and was the reason The Fuzz's Sweetie had removed this knob.
This situation, and the fact that the burners had a tendency to fall though the top of this thing, seemed like a good reason for The Fuzz to bring the relatively new stove from the old place.
So, The Fuzz and His Sweetie pulled this thing out of it's place and loaded it onto the trailer and hauled it though town, back to the old place. Then they dragged the thing into the kitchen, and then pulled the good one out. It was then that it was discovered that one stove had a 3 prong plug, whist the other had 4 prongs.
This did complicate things. But The Fuzz is not one to let minor complications stop him, and he figured he could simply swap the "pigtails", assuming the extra wire was some sort of "ground".
So he pulled the back off of the "good" stove to get to the wires. This was when he discovered this (arrow at left) situation. It seems that the terminal block was somewhat melted. This was probably caused by a loose connection, which could get a little hot.
This thing would clearly need to be replaced. Unfortunatly at this time on the weekend there was no way to obtain the necessary replacement part. So there was nothing left for it, (unless we wanted to eat cold food for a while!) but to load the old stove back on the trailer, and take them both home. And so, the old stove was re-installed.
The Fuzz's Sweetie did point out that we had actually achieved our goal for the day of moving the good stove out to the trailer, and it must be admitted that this was, in fact, the truth.
Well, The Fuzz removed the bad part and purchased a replacement after work this evening. And using it, he switched those pigtails and swapped out the stoves.
And so, we present, our spiffy "new" cookstove.