I have been working out of town the last few weeks and my wife started a pork butt for me yesterday so we could have it for my daughters birthday party today. We'll last night I went out to get the butts out to foil them and when I grabbed the Handel to open it up it shocked the crap out of me. My wife also told me that she got shocked earlier in the day from it. What I was wondering is what is causing this. I was thinking the heating eliment was going bad (kinda like a hot water tank I ran into a few years ago). The mes is about 5 years old 30 inch. What is your guys thought. What should I do try and get a new heating eliment or is it a wast of time and just talk the wife into the new 40 inch mes. Thanks guys