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Removed the door to my oven and can't screw the hinge plate back
Anonymous user 28/02/2024 - 3.49 PM
Hi, I took the door off my oven (Leisure Alta) to replace a handle. To do that, I had to remove the top hinge plate which was preventing me removing in the door. I've gone to screw it back in, but the screws just aren't screwing into anything - just turning and turning. Is it possible there were nuts at the back before which have now fallen away somewhere inside? I don't know if I'm now facing the prospect of having to somehow remove the entire oven insert in order to see the back side of this and find the nuts. Any advice hugely welcome! Update: I've now fixed this. Recording the fix in case anyone else has the same issue. As I suspected, there is a receiving plate on the backside of the oven face which the screws screw into. Once the screws are taken out, it falls down. You need to take out the four corner screws for the oven front, then use screwdrivers or chisels to pry the side open enough to peek in. From there you can use thin tools to wriggle the plate back up and hold it in place as you screw the hinge back in. It's a huge pain, but doable.
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