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Step 8Prepping the Heating Element
The heating element that you have is probably too big for our machine, so you're going to need to cut it.
Leave one of the ends intact, it's going to be easier to work with if you do so. You're going to need to use a hacksaw to cut off a piece of heating element about 4.6" long
Make sure that when you hack it off, you rotate the element so that you only cut the metal casing and don't cut off the nichrome wire that's coiled up inside the metal casing.
Bend the cut element so that it fits inside the groove you made for it in the base plate.
Once you have that, use electrical wiring connectors to connect a piece or wire to each end of the heating element (one on the lead that you left alone and the other on the excess nichrome wire from the rest of the heating element that you cut off).
Wrap the two connectors with Teflon tape, so that no metal is in contact with the aluminum parts.
Feed the two wires through their holes and let the element sit in its resting place.
Leave one of the ends intact, it's going to be easier to work with if you do so. You're going to need to use a hacksaw to cut off a piece of heating element about 4.6" long
Make sure that when you hack it off, you rotate the element so that you only cut the metal casing and don't cut off the nichrome wire that's coiled up inside the metal casing.
Bend the cut element so that it fits inside the groove you made for it in the base plate.
Once you have that, use electrical wiring connectors to connect a piece or wire to each end of the heating element (one on the lead that you left alone and the other on the excess nichrome wire from the rest of the heating element that you cut off).
Wrap the two connectors with Teflon tape, so that no metal is in contact with the aluminum parts.
Feed the two wires through their holes and let the element sit in its resting place.
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