Guess school paid off...

Originally Posted by Neuromancer

No intention to burst your bubble, and my info my be out of date, but I used to hold a FCC General Radiotelephone License with a Ship's Radar Endorsement...unless they made changes I don't know about don't you need to hold a class II technician's license to repair microwave ovens? Furthermore do you have a meter that checks for microwave leakage? Given the fact that you jury-rigged the door locking mechanism if the seal is not good you may be leaking microwave energy and that's not good at all...dunno what type of computer engineering schooling you're referring to, so if you already know all of this please feel free to ignore me...

I would have to say that as long as he replaced the component with a similar component he should be fine. As far as the door goes, the latch shouldn't effect the ability of the door to block the energy from escaping unless it didn't close all the way and left a large gap. Microwaves are built with shielding and unless he cut into or damaged the shielding the microwave would still be good.

I wouldn't recommend anyone without experience attemp to fix the shielding in a microwave or the actual "microwave" circuitry. Sounds like his problem was a power supply issue and not a "microwave" issue.

Take this for what it's worth... For the record I'm an electronics tech with a background in everything from radar and HF transmission to avionic electronics including IFF and navigation.