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Technika Oven Hinge Replacement Tu950Tme8 Tarneit 4.9 (54)

Technika Oven Hinge Replacement Tu950Tme8 Tarneit

As with our previous post the other issue with the Technika oven was the oven door not closing. There are many reason why the oven wont close properly.

  • Hinge receivers may need replacing
  • Hinge rollers are worn out
  • Hinge guides have worn out
  • Hinge springs are over stretchered
  • And the hinge arms are not engaging properly.

With today’s Technika oven hinge replacement in Tarneit the oven hinges needed to be completely replaced. The are other oven brands and models that springs can be changed still use the existing hinge arms. But today’s unit needed to replace tho whole hinge mechanism and springs.

A properly functioning oven door is one of the most important part to a good trouble free oven.  Not attending to the replacement of oven door hinges can lead to many issues in the future. Some of these can be

  1. Glass and door handle too hot to touch
  2. Burnt discoloring of the front fascia
  3. Burnt control knobs
  4. Burnt and discoloring of the kitchen  adjacent cupboards.
Replaced oven door hinges Technika
Replaced oven door hinges Technika

If your after a tip on replacing oven door hinge’s

If only one oven door hinge seems broken its advised to replace both hinge arms and springs on the left and the right. The reason for this is if you leave the old good hinge in place and only replace the broken hinge the oven door will not close properly due to the different hinge tensions.

right hinge replacement
right hinge replacement
Oven door closing properly
Oven door closing properly

If you are looking for a  local oven repair service near you please drop us  a line and we can provide a no obligation free quote on replacing you oven door hinges.

 

Technika oven door repairs Tarneit 3029 5 (32)

Technika oven door repairs Tarneit 3029

If your looking for a local oven repair near you in Tarneit than you may be able to relate to this oven repair service.  While in Werribee our technician had receive a call to attend a Technika oven repair service Model number
Upright Cooker Tu950Tme8.

Technika oven Tu950Tme8
Technika oven Tu950Tme8

So only 15 minuets from Tarneit a western suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, located 25 kilometres from central business district, located within the City of Wyndham local government area and nearby another emerging suburb at Truganina. Our tech needed to find out why the oven was not heating. And what was wrong with the oven door and why it was not closing properly. Looking at some of the features below there are many parts to test and find out why the Technika oven had heating problems first.

Some of the details of the cooker oven that may need fixing

105 Litre oven capacity
8 functions
6 Button programmable digital clock
5 Gas burners
Twin oven fan
Closed door grilling
Twin oven light
Automatic safety cut off
Cavity cooling system

other models of Technika are
B9Geftss-5 manual timer, Tu950Tle8G black enamel fascia.

So how to repair a Technika Oven that’s not heating.

  1. If you follow these steps you may well have solved the oven heating issue. Firstly you will need to turn the power off at the main switchboard. The oven circuit breaker will be labeled oven and should be after the main switch. Please look at the switchboard image below
oven repair tarneit switchboards
oven repair Tarneit switchboards

As you can see in the image the arrow pointing up will  either be labeled Stove or Oven . This one is in the on position. You must switch it off . The when you go back to the oven your clock will be off and not flashing.

2. Take the back panel off inside the oven … there are about six screws to remove and then you will see the two heating elements and fans in the center of them.

Technika oven element replacement Tarneit
Technika oven element replacement Tarneit – Removing the back plate to expose heating elements

3. Now that the cover is off you can now remove the element and disconnect the two wire that are attached to it. You then us a multimeter on the ohms scale setting. to check the continuity.

tarneit-technika-oven-element-testing
tarneit-technika-oven-element-testing

If your reading is too low below 19 ohms you will need to replace the heating element in your oven. once you purchase the right element you the proceed to re installing all the components to the oven and  switch power back on .

Was our technician able to repair the oven ?

What our technician found on the day …. well it turned out to be a faulty heating element. We installed the new heating element after testing and the oven was up and running again. So our next post will be dealing with the oven door not closing properly.

This is the fist part of many DIY repairs but if your not confident to take on the repair job yourself you can always contact us and book in an oven repair in Tarneit.