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Hi all, hope someone can help with this.
Me and the flatmate are renting a property and it has the Samsung SR-L36 fridge-freezer for us to use. Unfortunately, a few dodgy incidents led us to beleive that all wasn’t well with it (food going off too quickly etc) so a thermometer confirmed the fridge didn’t seem to be cooling the inside properly.
Looking at it front-on, the door looks like it has dropped on the left-hand side (the hinge is on the right-hand side) and I thought this may be the cause, also the light kept clicking on and off so it wasn’t catching the light-button properly for sure.
Got the letting agency to bring an engineer out who said he did something but I’m convinced he did absolutely nothing. The door looks the same as it did (slanted down to the left) and we’re no better off temp-wise.
I don’t want to go back to them and complain again as we’ll just get labelled and they’d prob just send the same engineer!). When the door is closed you can ‘lift’ the door about a couple of mm) so it has clearly dropped. I ‘propped’ it up last night with some weights between the fridge and freezer doors, and the tmep has gone back to normal and the fridge isn’t trying to cool itself all the time!
What I want to do is to remove the door and put a few washers at the bottom of the fridge door above the hinge to prop it up.
Anyone know how to get the doors off this model, and what size washer it would take?
Thanks in advance.
Andy
Re: Samsung SR-L36 door dropped
Hi
If the door has dropped opposite the hinge side, you need to check if the centre hinge is not bent. Normally this happens if too much weight is put on the door or in the door bins. If so, a new hinge will be required as it will not seat right even with packers and will wear the pivot holes quicker than usual, and then a new door will be required. If you want to fit packers, I would suggest plastic packers and not metal ones as metal will eventually cut into the door.
You will also need to check the plastic supports inserted into the door which the hinge shaft sits in as they also wear due to the weight of the door and weight in the door.
I would suggest the freezer door to come off first by undoing the lower hinge bracket and put the door somewhere safe (without dropping it), once all the items have been removed from the fridge door, leave the door shut and then carefully remove the two screws retaining the hinge to the chassis of the f/freezer. Then carefully remove the fridge door (without dropping it). Inspect the door and come to your conclusion.
Other than the door and hinges being faulty. it may be that the unit is not sitting on level flooring which distorts the cabinet and puts the doors out of alignment which intern will cause the door to miss the light switch keeping the light on when the door is closed. You need to make sure the floor it is sitting on is level before and work is undertaken as this is common cause for this problem.
Hope this helps 😉
APG
Re: Samsung SR-L36 door dropped
APG wrote:Hi
If the door has dropped opposite the hinge side, you need to check if the centre hinge is not bent.
APG
Thanks for that APG. I’ll have a look tomorrow. If it turns out the hinge is bent, any idea how I’d go about sourcing a replacement? 😕Andy
Re: Samsung SR-L36 door dropped
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