yea, so it's prolly the t-sat thats dead then, all you have to do is take it off the wall and connect 2 wires and you're done, it'll be on allt he time tho.... eh, and with that type of heat it's not cool...
in most cases it's either electronic a bimetalic strip or some sort of mercury contraption (i hate when they want us to install those things.. wha is this, 1949.. using mercury based electronics...)