Step 3: Prepare The Venting Blower; Remove The Mounting Plate - Kenmore 721.86002 Installation Instructions Manual

STEP 3:
PREPARE THE VENTING BLOWER
Your microwave oven is shipped with the blower assembled for room venting (recirculating). You need to
adjust the blower if you want wall vented or roof vented installation.
ELECTRICAL SHOCK HAZARD! UNPLUG UNIT BEFORE WORKING ON IT.
• DO NOT PULL OR STRETCH THE BLOWER WIRING! Pulling and stretching the blower wiring could
result in electrical shock.

REMOVE THE MOUNTING PLATE:

1. Remove any shipping materials and parts from
inside the microwave oven.
2. Cover the counter top or cooktop with a thick,
protective covering to protect it from damage and
dirt. See Figure 10.
NOTE: If you have a free-standing range,
disconnect it, move it onto a piece of
cardboard or hardboard and pull it away
from the wall, so that you can get closer to
the upper cabinet and back wall for easier
measuring and drilling.
3. Remove mounting plate 2 screws from the
mounting plate as shown and discard them.
(See Figure 11.)
4. The mounting plate will also be used to locate and
mark the mounting holes on the rear wall.
5. Locate exhaust adaptor, grease filters and
hardware packet.
6. At this point, remove any adhesive tape (if there is
any), on the exhaust adaptor, the grease filters
and the power supply cord.
ROOM VENTED INSTALLATION:
Go to STEP 4, PREPARE THE WALL AND UPPER
CABINET FOR INSTALLATION located on page 13.
10
WARNING
A thick, protective
covering
Figure 10
Mounting
plate
Mounting
plate screws
Control panel side
Mounting Plate
Screws
Mounting
plate
Control panel side
Figure 11