Ben - if you're checking that continuity with the bulb in place, you're measuring thru the bulb, if you had no continuity that'd mean that element was burned out
"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir "When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me Some TF series details & TF heater pics