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Re: Howden / Lamona HJA8630 runs all day, makes knocking sou

thanks for the input everyone. You confirmed pretty much what I suspected. Luckily I have very modern mains-wired (with batt backup) and linked smoke alarms in the house ! All the best to all who replied & thanks again !

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Re: glass door for Sheffield 1100 range cooker

Hi again
It all seems to have gone quiet on the suggestions for replacement oven glass.

Was anyone able to verify whether the glass from the Whirlpool cookers was a suitable replacement ?

Failing that, I had the idea of maybe ordering the inner glass panel for another make of cooker – e.g. a Zanussi 90 cm SINGLE oven door range model, where the glass panel certainly would be large enough, and then getting it cut to size. Does anythone think this would be a bad idea ?

I contacted Schott glass, who put me on to a ditributor who quoted me almost £ 200 including delivery for a piece of glass cut to size, I think they called it cermaic glass, with a slight brown tint to it; but again, they were not able to tell me if it would be the same spec as the one I had.

To the gentleman who said I might have to buy a whole new door – if only I could ! They don’t do those either.

I don’t want to waste anyone’s time so if I don’t get any further joy, thanks to everyone for the suggestions so far.

PT

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Re: glass door for Sheffield 1100 range cooker

What a great idea from Kevin !

I wonder if the glass would be big enough though. The size is as follows:

60.5 cm high x 35.5 cm wide x just over 3mm thick

It’s one of those types that rather than being inset into the door, is actually screwed to the door frame at it’s four corners, so it’s actually pretty much the same size as the door itself.

Thanks for all suggestions so far, much appreciated !

PT

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Re: glass door for Sheffield 1100 range cooker

Thanks Dave
Since my post I did a bit of net searching and confirmed what you say about the glass having to be heat reflective.

I also found the web site of a glass manufacturer who supplies the appliance manufacturers, as it were – http://www.schott.com but I doubt these people would be interested in an enquiry from joe public.

I can’t imagine I am the only person to have had this problem. The cooker was bought just before Christmas 1998 so is just over 5 1/2 years old. It seems hard to believe that others have not had to replace oven glass in the past.

I’ve contacted numerous glass companies out of the Yellow pages, and of the 2 that do fire-resistant glass, neither could say for sure whether it was suitable for ovens; one said it was suitable for stoves, but I’m guessing that means it is far from reflective; in fact probably the complete opposite !

Best wishes
PT

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