1958 pink G E wall oven ceramic broiler element recepticle

SOURCE: broiler element comes on when "bake" is pressed

does the bake element come on at all?
if so, try the oven out. do a bake @ 350 allow it to pre-heat, and see if once the pre-heat is comlete, id the broil shuts off.
on many ovens at the beginning of the cycle during pre-heat both bake and broil elements are powered.

other than that it may be a control board, or a burnt and crossed wire in the harness.

SOURCE: Oven/ broiler will not heat and bottom element slow to reach temp

Hi,
Check out this tip that I wrote about this problem...

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heatman101

SOURCE: Hi; I own a GE

There are no fuses inside your unit, only a few relays and 2 thermostats that are very easy to test with an ohmmeter. In your case the element has died of old age (the resistance inside it failed), the other one isn't far behind.
I seriously doubt you can obtain even a second hand element, finding a new one is practically impossible since production of this line of models ended in 2001.
I think it's time to get a new one.

SOURCE: Oven element will not come on but broiler works

There are three possible defects to conside. In order of likelihood given what you've described...

1) The bake element is defective. You can remove it and check it with an ohm meter. A good one would be roughly 20 to 40 ohms, a bad element has high (or very high) resistance.

2) The oven thermostat. It controls both the bake and broil elements, but has seperate control circuits (contacts) for each. The bake element is used most and most likely to fail. You *can* check for voltage while its operating, but if you aren't sure of what you're doing its an unnecessary danger. If you eliminate the element (#1 above) and the wiring (#3 below) then the thermostat is what you have to replace.

3) The wiring from the thermostat to the bake element could be defective. (I'm sorry, I don't know if your bake element has a socket or just wiring. It is possible for a bad socket to burn and pit the element's contacts and to have to replace both.). This is the least common cause, but if you test the bake element resistance at the thermostat, that includes the wiring, and if the element by itself is good, but not with the wiring then its the wiring. Since the broil element works, the wiring feeding power to the thermostat is good, and the only wiring to check was from the thermostat to the bake element.