I just fixed the problem with my Krups FBC-212. The door would not stay closed because the spring that keeps it in the closed position was broken. I ordered another from one of the small appliances parts sites (about $7 plus shipping) and that fixed it. I will describe how to do it and how to avoid the mistake that made it much harder and longer than it should have.
Remove the black screws at the back side, the ones holding the external black metal case to the silver chassis. There are 9 of these on my oven.
Also remove the 3 screws holding the left-side foot on.
Now you can probably slide the metal case (previously held on by the 9 screws) out from under the black metal front frame on the left side, thereby exposing the broken spring.
If you cannot get it out from under the lip of the front frame, you can take off the right-hand foot, and if that is not enough, you can remove THREE of the 4 black screws just inside the door holding the front frame to the chassis. Do NOT remove the lower left one next to where the flat door hinge piece goes into oven (which was my mistake) because that screw holds a critical black plastic piece in place.
By now you will be able to slide the black case that covers the sides and top backward and outward enough to expose the broken spring. It will be obvious how to attach the new one.
Where did you get the part? Thanks in advance.
Where did you get the part? Can you please provide a link? Thanks in advance.
Sorry for that duplicate comment, not intended. I just found the part here:http://www.appliancefactoryparts.com/sea...
Actually I found it at Krups for 3 bucks less. Part number is SS-185306.
Unfortunately I did not come across this until I had already removed the four front screws that hold the keypad, door and that pesky little piece of plastic at the hinge. How did you manage to hold that in place to get the screw back in?
These instructions are excellent. My husband and I repaired the job in about an hour which included cleaning the toaster before dissemble. It was a bit hard to get the metal case off and we had to do all the steps including the last steps where you remove 3 of 4 black inside screws. The color of our toaster hardware was a little different but the instructions were clear enough to know no additional adjustments were needed. We recommend going straight through to removing those last 3 screws. We are not sure you could remove the housing out without doing that. It was a bit hard putting the shell back over and took some maneuvering and some temporary screws in some places. It is handy having an extra person to do this job. We actually did not buy a new spring. Instead my husband lengthened the spring with some pliers and then created a loop on the end with different pair of pliers. We could tell from the replacement part picture what we needed for that loop. We never found the broken detached piece that kept the door hinge working properly. Our door is a little difference not using an exact replacement part but we are optimistic our solution should work for some time. Thank you for very much to the gentleman who wrote such thorough directions to this problems. Krupps was of no help whatsoever. They just want to sell new toasters.
If anyone is here to see this, I have gotten off the housing but when i did, the spring fell off and I didn't see where it hooks on. It looks like there is a hook in one end of the spring that hooks into the door part, but I can't tell how and where the other end of the spring hooks in. Any help from anyone would be appreciated.
the spring hooks into two tiny holes at each end. one is the tip of the arching hinge piece. The other hole is in a small tab cut and bent out of the frame.
I glued two neodymium magnets to the top of the oven front with super glue. Fixed.
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I assume that the glass hinge has come off or is broken.
For both the cases you can either remove off the old glass door and fix a new one with the therrmal properties.
the next option is to salvage on similar type from a service shop.
The other option is to stick along with a glass fixing adhesive a small rectangular glass to wedge into exactly over the broken glass and have the hinge centralised to make sure the alignment is correct to close the door properly.
If only the hinge has come off then use an extender to hinge to glue on with a glass fixing adhesive.
I have the same issue with the door hinge; not the glass part falling out but rather the hinge mechanism not keeping the door shut tight. Any body figure out how to replace the hinge mechanism?
I just fixed the problem with my Krups FBC-212. The door would not stay closed because the spring that keeps it in the closed position was broken. I ordered another from one of the small appliances parts sites (about $7 plus shipping) and that fixed it. I will describe how to do it and how to avoid the mistake that made it much harder and longer than it should have.
Remove the black screws at the back side, the ones holding the external black metal case to the silver chassis. There are 9 of these on my oven.
Also remove the 3 screws holding the left-side foot on.
Now you can probably slide the metal case (previously held on by the 9 screws) out from under the black metal front frame on the left side, thereby exposing the broken spring.
If you cannot get it out from under the lip of the front frame, you can take off the right-hand foot, and if that is not enough, you can remove THREE of the 4 black screws just inside the door holding the front frame to the chassis. Do NOT remove the lower left one next to where the flat door hinge piece goes into oven (which was my mistake) because that screw holds a critical black plastic piece in place.
By now you will be able to slide the black case that covers the sides and top backward and outward enough to expose the broken spring. It will be obvious how to attach the new one.
The description is helpful. However, can anyone look at their correctly assembled toaster how and describe how to correctly re-position the door hinge on the left side? Mine accidentally came off the spring and fell into the space between the metal exterior metal cover and the inner oven panel. I was able to remove it, but I can't figure out how to put it back into place, as there are four possible positions for this odd-shaped metal hinge. Specifically, each side has a small hole, and one is larger than the other. The larger hole looks like it's at the top of a bird's beak, whereas the smaller one is at the center of a small circle at the other end. I need to know which side can be seen emerging from the slot at the left, as that's the one intended for inserting the glass door's metal catch-hinge. The other side is for the spring. If the part that protrudes from the slot is the small, circular end, does it lean toward the left or toward the right? Mine looks bent, but maybe it's supposed to be that way so it does't keep falling back into the slot. Thanks for your help.
As gjgary noted, if the bottom screw that holds the black plastic piece in place come off make sure you screw it back in place. Mine came loose when I put my oven back together after installing new bottome elements and the door didnt open and close properly. I had to remeove the top/side panel again and install the screw at the bottom left opening of the doorway to the black plastic piece.
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