The motor has cast aluminum brackets on each end that house a brass bearing that is like a ball with a hole in it for the motor shaft. The bearing fits in the housing and is held in by a thin flexing star washer that when the motor was made, after the bearing was placed in the housing, the star washer was pressed in, the washer bows inwards so the star teeth on the outside dig into the housing to hold the bearing in place. They did not make the recess deep enough so the star washer pops out allowing the bearing to be loose which makes the motor stator stick to the armature instead of spin,
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I took my motor out trashed the star washer and took a small drill bit and drilled through the housing lip where the star washer on each side of the bearing. I had some stiff wire that was around 30 thousandths of an inch I ran through the 4 holes, one wire across one side of the bearing and one wire across the other side of the bearing then bent the wires on each end to keep them in place. So the bearing was held in place and will never slip out again. I save all kinds of stuff and I had this old Harbor freight bug zapper tennis wand, it quit working so I salvaged the mesh wires from it and that is what I used to fix the motor. When you have the motor apart , the bearings have or should have some packing around them in the housing, be sure and soak the packing good with zoom oil while it is apart so the bearings will stay lubricated a long time, from the factory they do not put much oil in them. I am an old Sears Appliance Technician so I have experienced most everything. if any packing is missing you can use tissue or paper towel packed around the bearing. to hold the oil. I have not found replacements for this motor so I just decided to modify it where the problem would not happen again. Another problem with these ovens is getting this E5 code, they say you can reset it by unplugging it. I found that if that does not work it means there is a bad connecting in the circuit. I found that out by hitting the oven above the control panel as I plugged it in. The vibration from hitting it made the connection make contact and the oven started working.
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I took my motor out trashed the star washer and took a small drill bit and drilled through the housing lip where the star washer was, on each side of the bearing. I had some stiff wire that was around 30 thousandths of an inch I ran through the 4 holes, one wire across one side of the bearing and one wire across the other side of the bearing then bent the wires on each end to keep them in place. So the bearing was held in place and will never slip out again. I save all kinds of stuff and I had this old Harbor freight bug zapper tennis wand, it quit working so I salvaged the mesh wires from it and that is what I used to fix the motor. When you have the motor apart , the bearings have or should have some packing around them in the housing, be sure and soak the packing good with zoom oil while it is apart so the bearings will stay lubricated a long time, from the factory they do not put much oil in them. I am an old Sears Appliance Technician so I have experienced most everything. if any packing is missing you can use tissue or paper towel packed around the bearing. to hold the oil. I have not found replacements for this motor so I just decided to modify it where the problem would not happen again. Another problem with these ovens is getting this E5 code, they say you can reset it by unplugging it. I found that if that does not work it means there is a bad connecting in the circuit. I found that out by hitting the oven above the control panel as I plugged it in. The vibration from hitting it made the connection make contact and the oven started working.
I had taken it apart before to check the triac they say is the problem but it was okay, after unplugging and plugging back in a connector it started working. The triac is like a switching thermostat for AC voltage, when there is an open circuit in that part due to a bad connection, it will throw the e 5 code. If you take it apart with it unplugged, you can move one wire at a time and plug it back in and whichever wire you moved that made it start working is where the bad connection is, also you can unplug and plug back in different connector one at a time while un plugged and when the oven works and does not throw the code when you plug it back in, it was the wire or connector you moved right before it started working that is the problem.
Breville will not tell you this, they know what the design flaw is and want to profit off you sending it back to them to fix it, so most people throw them away. This world is too full of greed anymore, a Company makes an appliance with a design flaw they can profit from and they won't tell you . Most people are not that technical, but for the rest of us it would be nice if they pointed you to the problem in the design. I mean they designed the thing to throw an error code, so if they went to that trouble, they must have known the appliance had a design flaw to reference a code number to it.
They probably outsourced the fan motor and most likely thanks to Politicians working for Corporations, they are all crappy made in China, not like when I worked at Sears decades ago before China made everything and we did not have these issues in new appliances. Corporations make a lot more money using Chinese slave labor wages as money we pay for everything now goes to build China's military when there plan is to Rule the world. Our Politicians suck selling us out, mostly republicans are supporting corporations and billionaires, it was not like this back in the 1970s and early 1980s. Reagan started this crap.
The motor has cast aluminum brackets on each end that house a brass bearing that is like a ball with a hole in it for the motor shaft. The bearing fits in the housing and is held in by a thin flexing star washer that when the motor was made, after the bearing was placed in the housing, the star washer was pressed in, the washer bows inwards so the star teeth on the outside dig into the housing to hold the bearing in place. They did not make the recess deep enough so the star washer pops out allowing the bearing to be loose which makes the motor stator stick to the armature instead of spin,
I took my motor out trashed the star washer and took a small drill bit and drilled through the housing lip where the star washer on each side of the bearing. I had some stiff wire that was around 30 thousandths of an inch I ran through the 4 holes, one wire across one side of the bearing and one wire across the other side of the bearing then bent the wires on each end to keep them in place. So the bearing was held in place and will never slip out again. I save all kinds of stuff and I had this old Harbor freight bug zapper tennis wand, it quit working so I salvaged the mesh wires from it and that is what I used to fix the motor. When you have the motor apart , the bearings have or should have some packing around them in the housing, be sure and soak the packing good with zoom oil while it is apart so the bearings will stay lubricated a long time, from the factory they do not put much oil in them. I am an old Sears Appliance Technician so I have experienced most everything. if any packing is missing you can use tissue or paper towel packed around the bearing. to hold the oil. I have not found replacements for this motor so I just decided to modify it where the problem would not happen again. Another problem with these ovens is getting this E5 code, they say you can reset it by unplugging it. I found that if that does not work it means there is a bad connecting in the circuit. I found that out by hitting the oven above the control panel as I plugged it in. The vibration from hitting it made the connection make contact and the oven started working.
I had taken it apart before to check the triac they say is the problem but it was okay, after unplugging and plugging back in a connector it started working. The triac is like a switching thermostat for AC voltage, when there is an open circuit in that part due to a bad connection, it will throw the e 5 code. If you take it apart with it unplugged, you can move one wire at a time and plug it back in and whichever wire you moved that made it start working is where the bad connection is, also you can unplug and plug back in different connector one at a time while un plugged and when the oven works and does not throw the code when you plug it back in, it was the wire or connector you moved right before it started working that is the problem.
Breville will not tell you this, they know what the design flaw is and want to profit off you sending it back to them to fix it, so most people throw them away. This world is too full of greed anymore, a Company makes an appliance with a design flaw they can profit from and they won't tell you . Most people are not that technical, but for the rest of us it would be nice if they pointed you to the problem in the design. I mean they designed the thing to throw an error code, so if they went to that trouble, they must have known the appliance had a design flaw to reference a code number to it.
They probably outsourced the fan motor and most likely thanks to Politicians working for Corporations, they are all crappy made in China, not like when I worked at Sears decades ago before China made everything and we did not have these issues in new appliances. Corporations make a lot more money using Chinese slave labor wages as money we pay for everything now goes to build China's military when there plan is to Rule the world. Our Politicians suck selling us out, mostly republicans are supporting corporations and billionaires, it was not like this back in the 1970s and early 1980s. Reagan started this crap.