Did you try 'all the king's horses and the king's men'? I heard they have experience with these sort of stuff.

BenT

On Sep 24, 2010, at 1:30 AM, Rob <becida@COMCAST.NET> wrote:

> A daughter tried to hard boil an egg in the microwave oven and blew
> it up. The way I heard it she put the egg in and turned it on, later
> BOOM the door blew open and the microwave didn't work anymore.
> When I got home I looked at it and one of the lathes is broken.
> 
> I'd never heard of such a thing but I thought if any group of people
> could deal with this or explain it the folks on the Vanagon list could.
> 
> The egg caused the door to blow open on a modern microwave oven and
> break a latch in the process?  Any thoughts this Friday?
> 
> 
> 
> Rob
> becida@comcast.net