Ge designs oven glass doors to last the life of the product and to resist normal wear and.
Moffat oven glass door shattered.
There are a number of ways a glass oven door can shatter but most of them have to do with tiny cracks that develop from something hitting the glass.
Marie newbold is the latest to bring a complaint to a spokesman said after the glass door on her indesit oven exploded sending shattered glass onto her kitchen floor.
This oven maintenance video demonstrates removal and replacement of the oven door outer glass oven door inner glass.
The glass prior to shattering had no obvious cracks or fissures nor was any blunt force applied to it.
So why is this happening.
A year later the exact same thing happened again.
Oven doors are made using tempered glass which has been used in millions of oven doors for many years.
For the householder it s an alarming experience.
Bought a moffat oven in 2007.
Every so often we receive a disturbing report of a glass oven door exploding apparently for no reason.
At 8 45pm the front glass of the oven door shattered into sheets shards and pieces.
Opening and closing an oven door is quite possibly one of the most important aspects to an oven.
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Glass heat treated to withstand greater than normal forces on its surface uhh sure that explains a lot.
The glass door randomly shattered after about 18 months and after thinking its just an unexplained rarity contacted the company who sent someone out to replace it.
Tempered glass by definition according to the national glass association nga a strong break resistant type of safety glass that if broken shatters into small granular pieces.
This is partly because the glass failure may happen a long time after the initial damage a knock scratch or accidental bash occurred.
If you aren t able to do that then it becomes useless.
Some of these micro fissures are created when the glass is tempered while others are created when something small bumps against the glass in the oven like a pan diamond ring or metal spoon.
It seemed to break for no apparent reason.
Cbs 2 investigator dave savini has some answers in this original report.
Glass continued to pop and disintegrate after hitting the floor.
These fissures can handle the stress until one day they simply give out.
The man over the one once again said its a very rare thing and arranged for it to be replaced.