Busted oven door pin question

[Traumensie]

My husband and I have dove into fixing up the new stove. It took about a week of just hanging out with her to get the confidence up to disassemble. Reading the posts here, and Berlyn's photo essay, are very inspiring!

I had noticed that the oven door would hang a bit lower on the right side when closing, and I've learned why. The pin that connects the oven door frame to the stove frame is busted into three pieces on that side. The other side is ok. We are thinking that we have to remove the pin on the left side (the one that's still in tact) to remove the entire oven door frame.
This would allow us to essentially chisel out the broken pin on the right side. It's pretty rusted on to the oven door frame, and we can't figure how else to get the broken pieces out.

I thought I'd post about it before beginning to hammer away. Do you think this is the right approach? Will it be difficult to find replacement pins, or is this something that is pretty easy to find at the hardware store?

Thanks!

[Pokey Roberts]

WD-40 Or some other penetrating oil, and time.
Kroll ? sp? oil is another good product. Just
spray on and let soak into the rusted parts.
Take pliers and or vice grips on the pin and try
to wiggle [technical term] and or move turn or
get the fused parts to move any at all. Take
your time. Do not force them any more than you
have to. You can gently tap the parts with
the smallest hammer you have.
I know this part is broken and if all else fails
you can get a bigger hammer. But a lot of these
old stoves have rusted bolts, nuts, and parts,
that can be saved by not forcing them and being
gentle.
Heat also works great to loosen frozen parts.
If you have a small butane torch and you can get
to the parts without burning something and or
catching something on fire heat the parts up
very hot. The rust will usually come right off.
Some metals do not respond to heat [at least in
a way that you would like] Copper, aluminum, brass,
and porcelain, should not be heated with
a torch.
Pokey

[loxie12]

The instructions on removing the door are in the owner's manual- available from the moderator or the Stoveman on ebay. The replacement pin needs to be fashioned by splitting the end of an appropriately sized screw. If you do a search on this site you will find more detailed instructions. That's the correct way. I, myself, just put a 10-24 screw in without splitting the end and it works just fine. Good luck on the project.

[Traumensie]

Thanks Loxie!

I do have the manual, which helps enormously. I also did a search and read about the clevis pin.

My question is how best to remove the broken parts that are fused onto the oven door frame and the stove frame. The instructions I read about the clevis pin mentioned that I shouldn't have to remove the door frame...but it's clear I do have to in order to remove the fused on broken pieces. I just don't want to mess up or bend anything out of whack.

[Traumensie]

Thanks for the tips Pokey. I will try the torch and hammer method tonight!

[Pokey Roberts]

Did you get the parts off without damaging anything.
Remember "don't force it get a bigger hammer".
That is an old oilpatch joke.
Pokey