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Re: MFI DIPLOMAT OVEN
The reason for these Diplomat oven inner glass doors failing maybe its just one of those things that just happens to oven sometimes. Besides the issue spilling hot glass in front of the oven.
I was just wondering whether people have checked the tightness of the screws directly under the glass sheet in the door when the door has shattered ?
Re: MFI DIPLOMAT OVEN
I checked my oven at the weekend and realised that screws that were tightened, the screw heads are about 1mm below the surface of the glass.
This seems very significant to me!?!?!
Re: MFI DIPLOMAT OVEN
I had a visit from a MFI engineer to perform a safety inspection of the oven. Both the engineer and MFI still maintain there is no fault with the oven or its design, as to be expected!
One interesting thing the engineer did do is tighten the screws holding the oven door together which are directly between the glass and the oven door!!!!
Re: MFI DIPLOMAT OVEN
I had the same response from MFI as kwatt gave. The glass is made to European/UK standards and if it breaks the glass shards are harmless just like a car windscreen.
I’ve got news for them the car windscreen glass shards are not at 210C. The glass shards were so hot they were moving around as they cooled.
And this is literally an explosion with the glass being pushed out of the bottom of the oven and travelling 4 feet away almost instantaneously. Cheap or not this should not be expected. By the way this is Diplomat ADP3640 worth 369 pounds, is that cheap !?!?!?
Also the oven door is spring loaded, the glass is unprotected from anything in the oven and worst all the hot glass shards are released straight into immediate vicinity.
My case has also been forwarded by Consumer Direct to Trading Standards also. Meanwhile my children totally banned from the kitchen while the dangerous thing is on.
Re: MFI DIPLOMAT OVEN
The internal glass panel door of our diplomat oven shattered last night. While it was more like exploded with hot glass shards pouring out of the bottom of the oven and landing 4-5 feet away. My a wife was about foot away from the spillage, I hate to think what would have happen if one of my small children would have been in range.
I have found 2 other references of people with the same thing happening on the web through google. How big problem is this ? That’s 4 people reported it on the web, if thats 1 per cent of all incidents. Could this be a dangerous design fault in these ovens ?
Our oven has always been well maintained and the door has never been used as a shelf.
