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ENERGY
TIPS
3 Using
e socket
screwdriver
or end
17. While
holding
the
door in a closed
wrench, remove the screws from the up-
position, take the center hinge pin that
FOR EFFICIENT
ENERGY
USE.
per hinge. Carefully lift the door (includ-
was removed in step 8, and insert it
ing upper hinge) off the center hinge
through the left hole of the center
1. Be sure refrigerator is level and ventila-
and place it on a padded surface to pre-
hinge and into the bottom door bush-
tion around front grille is not blocked,
vent scratching.Avoid losingthe spacer
ing. Make sure the long pin goes into
2. Check door seals occasionally for leak-
that was between the hingeand the cab-
the bottom door and the short pin
age. Check at various places, top, but-
inst top.
goes into the top door.
tom, sides.
4. Using a putty knife, pry the plug button
18. Set the upper door on the center
coverfrom the plasticbushingat the top
hinge, making
sure the hinge
pin
3. Check the temperature; avoid unneces-
ofthedoor. Savethecoverforfutureusa.
enters the door bushing. When you
sarily cold settings,
close this door, the gasket should ho(d
6. Lift the upper hinge and the spacer
it in place.
4. Keep freezer full to near capacity, less
washers from the door and install
cold air is lost during door openings,
them at the opposite corner.
19. Making sure to use the same number
of spacers that were originally used
5. Let hot dishescool before putting into re-
5. Position the plug button cover, saved
beneath the upper hinge, install the
ftigerator or freezer,
from step 4, over the old hinge bush-
hinge mounting screws. Before tight-
6. Cover liquids; if uncovered, the unit must
ing and pressit into p_ace,
ening these screws, make sure the top
of the door is leve_ with the cabinet
work longer.
7. Pry out the 3 plastic plug buttons
top, and the space between the door
7. Clean refrigerator condensercoilsat least
from the cabinet top and press them
is equidistant across the entire front.
twice a year.
into the opposite corner.
Avoid over-tightening these screws.
Tighten both until they are just snug,
8. Lift the center hinge pin out of the
then turn them in another one-half
SAFETY
TIPS
bottom door and center hinge. Care-
turn.
fully lift the lower door off the lower
20. Examine the door gasket all around
1. In case of power failure, minimize door
hinge and place it on a padded sur-
each door, making sure no gaps are
openings. (f power failure is of long dura-
face. If the metal hinge pin pulls out
visible between the gasket and cabi-
tion, protect frozen food by placing
of the lower hinge when the door is
net. If a gap shows, try stretching the
blocks of dry ice on top of the packages,
removed, pull it out of the door but-
gasket away from the door so the
or check with a local frozen foods locker
tom and pressit back into the hinge,
magnet will contact the cabinet sur-
plant about temporary storage.
9. Remove the center hinge and spacer
face.
2. Use the three-pronged plug only with a
from the cabinet. Transfer the two
21. Usinga phillips screwdriver, remove the
propedygrounded three-prongedreceptacle
screws from the left end of the divider
screws that attach the nameplate and in-
to provideprotectionfrom electrical shock,
bar to the right end. Install the center
sert to the handles and install them on
Do not use an adapter plug or extension
hinge and spacer on the left end of
the opposite handles as shown.
cord.
the divider bar the same way it was
22. Invert the handles and install on oppc-
installed on the right end. Tighten
site sides of the doors as shown.
3. Unplugrefrigerator beforecleaningthe interi-
or, the condenseror replacinglight bulb.
both screws until they are just snug,
then turn them one-half turn more.
4. Remove the doors from out-of-use re-
frigerator. Prevent a child from becom-
10. Pry the plug cover from the plastic
ing accidentally
trapped
and
suf-
bushing at the top of the lower door
focating,
and press into the plastic bushing on
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the opposite side of the door.
CHANGING
11 Remove the base grille by grasping at
both ends and pulling it straight out.
REVERSIBLE
12 Remove the lower hinge and spacer.
DOORS
13. Rotate the lower hinge counterclock-
wise
90°
and install
it
(including
23. To replace the base grille, line up itsspr-
This refrigerator has been built with the
spacer) to the left leg of the cabinet,
ing clipswith the square openings in the
doors hinged on the right. If you wish to
cabinet and tap each end in until the
hinge the doors on the left, follow these in-
NOTE: It will take extra effort to install the
grille locks in place.
structions. If it becomes necessary to return
screws. The screws are self tapping and
the hinges to the right side, merely trans
wil_havetocutthreadsinthescrewholes.
24. Replace all food and return the fresh
poseallreferencesto"right'and"left'"
____,__
food control to its usual operating poem-
when following these instructions,
tion.
TOO,S REOUIREB
AVOID
Phillips screwdriver
UNNECESSARY
End wrench (5/16")
Hex-head socket screwdriver (5/16")
Putty knife
SERVICE
CALLS
14. Pull the metal hinge pin from the side
BEFORECALLINGA TECHNICIAN, CHECK
CHANGING
BOORS
of the lower hinge and place it, in-
THE FOLLOWING
LIST FOR POSSIBLE
1. Turnthe fresh food control to OFF,unplug
cluding the spacer washer, into the top
TROUBLES THAT
YOU
CAN
REMEDY
the refrigerator andremoveall foodfromthe
hole.
WITHOUT DIFFICULTY.
interior.
15. Pry out the two screw hole plug buttons
on the bottom left side of the top door
NOISY
OPERATION
2. Remove the handles from the doors
and lower door. Press in the plug but-
• Fan noise--normal air flow.
and set aside. On the side of the doors
tons in the holes on the right side of
Defrost pan not positioned correctly
that you are going to install the hun-
both doors.
•
dies, remove the small round screw
• Cabinet not level.
hole plugs with a table knife and press
16. Set the lower door on the bottom
them into the holes on the opposite
hinge, making sure the
hinge pin
• Weak floor.
side of the doors,
enters the bushing in the door bottom.
• Dishes rattling against each other
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