Well, that was a fun evening.
SWMBO was in the mood to do toasted sandwiches tonight - and about a third of the way through the cooking, there came a plaintive cry from the kitchen ... the sandwich maker had died.
This poor thing was purchased in the 80's and I've kept it going. This is the fourth repair I've done on the thing. Problem was simple enough - thermal fuse had gone. Just so happens I have suitable replacements in my component stash. What I didn't have were suitable crimp connectors, so I had to "refurbish" the old ones with a drill bit that was too small for the chuck. Found a good use for a piece of the centre conductor of 75 ohm coax.
The worst part of this was the oily residue that had accumulated inside the bottom cover. That was gross and it was everywhere. I gave that job to SWMBO. My share was cleaning the wires that had been covered in it.
Anyway, new thermal fuse installed, unit reassembled, cooking completed and household fed. Good for another 10 years!! (Sorry - no pics. They didn't rate in the list of priorities, sadly.)
Now I have to clean up the hurried mess created trying to complete an ad-hoc, top priority repair on a desk that was already in the middle of multiple other tasks. Good grief ... how do I ever get stuff done in this pig-sty?!!