Chamber oven door

[chambers48]

Hello all Chambers Fans, my model C oven door handle does take some effort to secure. Is there any way to make my handle door close easyer ? also is there a replacement seal for the door all well ? Would like to tighten heat loss up, Happy Cooking

[Todd W. White]

The Service Manual contains detailed information on how to adjust the door...need one?

[berlyn]

Lowracer is correct, no seal on the oven door.
I'm so addicted to the other Chamber features, I've only fired up the oven twice. But I had no heat loss and was quite surprised the door stayed warm and not hot to the touch. Thanks to that good 'ol rock wool insulation used in the Chambers.

Be sure to get your literature for your model stove!!
[b]A must for all Chambers owners!! [/b]
It might need a minor adjustment.

Todd and Sam-the uncertain stoveman, are great sources for the literature. I've even noticed Sam does these "owners kits" on literature. [img]graemlins/smarty.gif[/img]

Let us know what you find out.

Berlyn

[lowracer]

The oven door is a metal-to-metal seal. It's bare metal to bare metal. I don't know of any way to make it seal any better.

After re-reading your post though, I do wonder if somehow the door has been mis-aligned? Could it have been twisted or bent so that it no longer lines up properly, thus causing the heat loss and the extra effort to close it? Can you post some photos?

<font color="#FFFFFF" size="1">[ December 12, 2005 12:36 PM: Message edited by: lowracer ]</font>

[taheckler]

I'm not an expert by any means, but I did have a similar experience with my Model B door so can share my observations there. My door wouldn't shut all the way without extreme force. Turns out it was a bad door-stop spring assembly. This is the rod that connects to the bottom of the door and applies pressure to keep the door held in place when it's opened without it flopping down. Once I pulled the assembly out, I could see that it was twisted and not functioning right. It gets a little messy to fix with the Model B because that assembly has to push up the sides of the oven, through the rock wool insulation. The insulation gets a little disturbed when you replace and remove the assembly. HOWEVER, the good news is that the door hinge for the Model C is much less complicated (doesn't go up thru the oven walls), but it is a pain to get to. If I remember correctly, you'll have to remove the stove face, the side panel, the oven door (front and back panels) to get at those hinges. Not hard to do with a manual to show where all the bolts are, but it is a bit of a project.

The hinges (Model C) and the door-stop-assembly (Model B) are the only complicated thing about the door. Otherwise, it's just a cast iron door frame that butts up to the cast iron stove frame.

<font color="#FFFFFF" size="1">[ December 13, 2005 10:00 AM: Message edited by: Tura Heckler ]</font>