How To Clean Inside Oven Door, Fridgidare

The other night, one of my kids managed to spill soup into the vents on the top of the oven door, which and so dripped between the two oven door glass panels. Googling around, I discovered this is not uncommon, but in that location were scant instructions for cleaning between the glass of an oven door. Rather, forum contributors were evenly divided among "buck upwardly and alive with it," "sell the house," "call a professional person to repair it," and "replace the oven" — roughly my priority of options. Since this was a relatively new kitchen remodel, my meliorate one-half was fidgety to have it fixed. As I'one thousand always upwards for a claiming, I thought it would be helpful to certificate the process in instance anyone else has a need for cleaning between the glass of their oven's door

Drip down the inside glass of the oven — Oh, the horror!

I started with the helpful 'sploded diagram beneath. This confirmed the project was doable past a mortal. So, for those of you who come here because you have the same consequence, hither is a pictorial guide, using my oven as the model for all ovens ever fabricated.

Oven door schematic from Sears Parts Direct.

Difficulty: Easy to Moderate. The door is heavy. If your oven is older, the door screws may be corroded and hard to remove.

Tools and materials required:

#ii Philips screwdriver with a practiced bespeak.

Cleaning supplies. For the internal pane, Windex was sufficient. On the within of the oven, I used a razor bract and vinegar.

Water ice cold beer.

Time: About 30 minutes, including cleaning stuff and stride 10.

Step 1: Disconnect the rack from the door. Mine has 2 rods that connect to the lower tray. Rotating them xc degrees will let them slide out.

Step 2: Lock the hinges. At that place is a lever on each hinge that slides down to keep information technology from moving further. (Come across yellow arrow for the range of motility.)

Hinge safety lock – move it down to engage.

Hinge safety lock engaged — Hinge safety lock … engage! (It helps to say information technology like Jean-Luc)

Step 3: Shut the door all but a paw-length (about 10° open up). Grab each side of the door — non its handle — and elevator up. Repeat: do not lift past the handle. Lift by handle, you lot shall not. (Why? The handle won't back up the weight of the door.)

Do. Not. Lift. By. Handle. — Practise. Not. Lift. By. Handle.

Oven door sitting on my counter, handle removed

Footstep 4: Gently set the door on a apartment surface.
Step five: There are six screws you lot'll need to remove: 4 pocket-size ones ("60B" on the schematic above) on the bottom of the door (below the swivel levers), and the two large ones ("x" on the schematic) belongings the handle ("39" in the schematic) that you did not utilize to lift the door with.

Below the door screws are 2 smaller screws on each side. Don't remove these as they're merely for the hinge machinery. (Because I didn't know what I was doing, I did. It's not a big bargain, but it'south unnecessary work.)

Green highlighting - remove this. Red - no. — Green highlighting – remove this. Ruby-red – no.

Um.... screw is removed? — Um…. spiral is removed?

Step half-dozen: Gently lift the blackness, heavy, hinged part off the facade.

While I had the main door out, I used the razor blade to scrape the cooked food splatters off the oven drinking glass, then cleaned grease with vinegar and newspaper towels.

Stride 7: Clean the drip off the facade:

The stain wasn't bad, so I but used a simple glass cleaner. While I was at it, I cleaned out the vent holes with wadded up paper towels.

Stride 8: Reassemble the door: put the facade on the main door. Attach the four screws on the bottom. Clasp the top of the door together and attach the two door handle screws.

Step 9: Gently set the door hinges into the slots on the oven. The door hinges volition not release until they're settled into the oven and you've pulled on the door a picayune fleck:

If you're still having problems with the swivel, hither is an teaching canvass that might aid. (Thanks to Kristina Manu for the information.)