Removing Atwood Oven Door

[chiefward]

Could someone please tell me how to remove the door to my Atwood oven. Had a great grandson use it as a chair and now the door will not close tight enough to use. Need to remove door to see if there is anything I can do to repair. Any suggestions are appreciated.

[chiefward]

I ended up doing it the hard way by taking the door apart to expose the hinges. With a vice, I bent the hinges back in place; reinstalled everything and now the door closes properly. Thanks for the help.

[DrewE]

Often oven hinges have some general slop/sliding ability built in, and wiggling the door in various ways might very well be enough to get it back into proper position. Try opening it and jiggling/sliding the hinge parts in and around. Of course, if the door itself is actually bent or something that is not likely to work.

It might be necessary to take the range out of the countertop and remove the side panels to extricate the door entirely. If you do that, make sure you take pictures and/or notes of how things are put together as getting the springs and levers and such back properly once disassembled is often not as intuitively obvious as one would hope. If some spring or lever or linkage has become disconnected, then taking these things apart is pretty nearly essential, I'd think. It's usually only a half dozen screws or so that hold it in place, a few under the range top "hood" that you can open up and a couple around the bottom of the oven door.

[dougrainer]

You open the door fully. When opened, at both metal hinges you will see a small hole thru that hinge. You insert a small metal pin thru that hole. THAT holds the spring loaded hinges open. You then pull the door out of the hinge slots. Odds are the door hinges or the door inside pins are bent. Doug

[Dick_B]

While you are waiting do a Google search for `Atwood oven door removal' to get some ideas.