Toaster will not stay down; only 2 of 4 panels heat when forced down.
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Our toaster recently stopped toasting and I am hoping that I can fix it rather than sending it to a landfill and buying a new one.
It doesn't engage at all to stay down when you press down the lever. If you force it to stay down, it will heat up the 2 inner panels, but the 2 outer panels remains cold. So I suppose you could technically manually toast one side of two slices of bread this way. It is sort of like having the bagel button and cancel button both held down - but of course they aren't.
I did figure out how to get it apart, but I am pretty new at diagnosing this stuff and don't see anything obviously wrong to me.
I was hoping that maybe the description of that problem would mean something specific enough for someone here to point me in the right direction.