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musicvan
Hi, Some advice required on a mcb trip on the cooker ring, cooker was on Friday pm when the trip went on the cooker ring. With the cooker off and the cooker socket off it tripped again. Removed the cooker socket front to find a scorch mark at the back of the socket and the neutral wire insulation melted in a small area, the live into the socket connector was slightly melted and the socket connector plastic was slightly melted, looks like live and neutral shorted. Would a failed cooker element cause the wiring at the socket to melt or would it be a failed socket? Unable to get somebody out to investigate due to covid at the moment. Happy to replace the cooker element and socket but due to the melt on the neutral insulation was going to strip back but may not give enough wire to play to reconnect, is electrical insulation tape acceptable to mend insulation melt (couple mm) for a cooker circuit?