My oven door fell off

Phillippa42
Phillippa42 Forum Participant Posts: 84
edited August 2016 in Caravans #1

i can't work out how to put it back on.  I can see at the hinge side there's a little metal spike at the top and one at the bottom.  The door has corresponding holes and I need to get both spikes in both holes.  

But I can't do it, I can only do one at a time.  I get the top one in but then the bottom one is sticking up too high to be able to get it in the hole if that makes sense?

oh and I have two washers which fell onto the floor when it happened but no nuts, are there's supposed to be nuts?  Am I going to have to take the oven apart to get the door back on?

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  • ABM
    ABM Forum Participant Posts: 14,578
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    edited August 2016 #2

    Does  your  Oven  open  side  to  side  Pippah  ??

    Mine  have  only  ever  opened  "Top  to  Bottom"

     

    There  must  be  some  slack  or  movement  in  the  mountings  or  the  door  would  not  have  come  adift.

    So  One  washer  sits  on  the  lower  'pin'  and  one  sits  on  the  upper  -- these  washers  or  shims  are  designed  to  take  up  any  slack  &  to  allow  movement  without  excess  wear.

    The  'pins  are  normally  on  a   piece  of  steel  which  is  screwed  to  the  frame  of  the  oven  or  whatever.  its  possible  that  one  of  the  fixing  screws  has  come  adrift,  allowing  the  'pin'  to  move  excessively.  Just  a  case  of 
    trial  &  error  I'm  afraid.

    Brian

  • BorisSnowhead
    BorisSnowhead Forum Participant Posts: 50
    edited August 2016 #3

    Ours fell off as well and had similar issues getting it back in. 

    Through trial and error, I discovered that there was a clip on door hinge which you could hold the pins at the "open" position. The door could then be inserted and the clip released to hold door in place

    Apologies appreciate that is terrible description but it was straightforward once you know 

  • jennyc
    jennyc Forum Participant Posts: 957
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    edited August 2016 #4

    Caravan and domestic oven doors are designed to unclip, to facilitate cleaning, it's not a fault. Interestingly kitchen cupboards will also unclip without undoing screws. But how? Ahhhhhh that's knowledge held by professional oven cleaners. I've never tried,
    preferring to pay a modest fee for avoiding a horrible job at home. And they can do a wonderful job too.

  • Phillippa42
    Phillippa42 Forum Participant Posts: 84
    edited August 2016 #5

    Door opens side to side.

     

    The pins don't appear to move at all.  Will have to go and have another play amd see what I can do!

  • ChefJim
    ChefJim Forum Participant Posts: 104
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    edited August 2016 #6

    You say one pin is longer than the other, the hinge loop goes over that one first as a locator and the other hinge will just fall in line to the other. The door needs to be open as wide as possible and they don't use nuts to secure just a washer on each one .

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