Capacitors will drop a fool

I didn’t before, but I do now. The one I dealt with was just clipped in, so I could just pull it out without tools. The whole thing was kinda sitting up on a little pedestal, and easy to get at without digging around in the other “innards”

…so maybe, then. :). If you do decide to take it apart, be careful. Sometimes appliances have capacitors in them, which can deliver a nasty shock

If it’s an old one, it could be a fuse. We had a big one years ago that did this same thing. My roommate at the time thought it was suicidal to even try to open a microwave’s cabinet (I think he thought it’d radiate me or something), but I pulled the top off, and there was this big giant fuse, about the size and shape of a tube of lip balm, obviously blown. Got a replacement at the local hardware store for less than $1. All that said, this was in the early 90s, so maybe I’m just old