 You ever wonder what an oven thermostat looks like? Well, one of the older ones, anyway. I happen to have one right here. Brand new! This is on an old hot point stove that uses the old style thermostat. It's got a capillary tube on it, the bulb that registers temperature. And like I said, the new stoves that you see out there now, they they're all done electronically, computerized, you know, sensors and all that stuff. This is old school right here, and what I've seen a lot of people on occasions will do is this little thin piece of copper right here. If it breaks, they think that they're gonna fix it by twisting it together like you would a wire. Actually, you can't do that. This bulb is filled with gas. And when the temperature rises in a stove, that gas expands, goes through this tube, goes inside of this thermostat here, pushes like a little contact that's connected to a bellows. It just kind of moves up and down. As the temperature, as the gas expands, it pushes that little contact into an electrical connection causing the thermostat to turn on the bake element. And then when it reaches temperature, the gas stops, the gas will slowly, the pressure in the tube goes down, and that allows this thing to go on and off, on and off. So as it cools down, the gas decreases, then it tells it to come back on at a certain point. And then the gas increases in the tube, pushes the contact in, makes the electrical connection inside of this little box. And it just continues to cycle like that on and off, on and off, on and off to regulate your temperature. Now what happens sometimes is that the inside of this thermostat, like I said, it is a mechanical type of device. So they get either weak or they might get a little rigid. What happens is your temperature in your oven will either go way too high or not high enough. So there are occasions where you have to replace this part. So that's an oven thermostat for an electric stove, an old hot point. You don't see these too often anymore because everything's electronic nowadays. It's just a little sensor that basically is like this tube with a bracket and two wires coming off the end of it. And it registers millivolts. And the millivolts from the gas pressure inside of here creates some kind of a voltage change that the electronic board detects telling the oven to go on or off. But for now, on an old hot point stove we'll use the old analog type, the gas tube and the capillary tube that's all gas filled. If this tube breaks, don't try to twist it together. That's not going to do anything. The gas inside of that tubing is gone and so you've totally negated anything that that thermostat's going to do. Not going to regulate temperature anymore. So if you need to get a thermostat replaced on your old stove and it's got a bulb in there like this that's connected to a copper tubing, this is what you're going to probably get. Hi guys, this is Dan Giles. I'll see you in the next video. So I figured I'd do a Q&A kind of thing here. Let me get you straight here. Sorry about that. And I was looking here on my phone and checking for questions. Yeah, here we go. Here's one. Go with this one. This is Dan. You ain't got no questions. This is a bust.