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6. Remove the one (1) screw holding the air duct to the blower

motor.

7. Remove the four (4) screws holding the blower motor angle

to the blower motor.

8. Now, the blower motor is free.

UPPER
1. CARRY OUT 3D CHECKS.
2. Disconnect the wire leads from the stirrer motor (upper).
3. Remove the one (1) screw holding the stirrer motor (upper)

to the oven cavity.

4. Turn and lift up the stirrer motor (upper).
5. Now, the stirrer motor (upper) is free.

LOWER
1. Disconnect oven from the power supply.
2. Remove the stirrer motor cover by snipping off the material

Procedure
1. CARRY OUT 3D CHECKS.
2. Pushing the lever of positive lock

®

 connector, pull down

the connector from the terminal.

3. Now, the connector is free.

CAUTION: WHEN CONNECTING THE POSITIVE

LOCK

®

  CONNECTORS TO THE TERMI-

NALS, CONNECT THE POSITIVE LOCK

®

CONNECTOR SO THAT THE LEVER
FACES YOU.

in four portions.

3. Where the portions have been snipped off bend the portions

flat. No sharp edge must be evident after removal of the stirrer
motor cover.

4. Disconnect the wire leads from the stirrer motor (lower).
5. Remove the one (1) screw holding the stirrer motor (Lower)

to the oven cavity.

6. Now, the stirrer motor (lower) is free.
7. After replacement use one (1) screw (XOTWW40P08000)  to fit

the stirrer motor cover.

Terminal

Push

Pull down

1

Lever

Positive lock®

connector

2

1. CARRY OUT 3D CHECKS.
2. Remove the oven lamp.
3. Pull the wire leads from the oven lamp socket by

pushing the terminal hole of the oven lamp socket with
the small flat type screw driver.

4. Lift up the oven lamp socket .
5. Now, the oven lamp socket is free.

Oven lamp
socket

Terminal

Wire lead

Terminal hole

Flat type small
screw driver

1. Open covers of the terminal insulator by using small flat type

screw driver.

2. Remove the receptacle from the terminal insulator.
3. Now, the terminal insulator is free.

Installation
1. Insert the receptacle into terminal insulator.
2. Close covers of the terminal insulator, as shown illustlated

below.

CONTROL PANEL ASSEMBLY REMOVAL
The complete control panel should be removed for re-
placement of components. To remove the control panel,
proceed as follows:
1. Disconnect the oven from power supply.
2. Wait for 60 seconds to discharge the high voltage

capacitor.

3. Remove the air intake filter assembly from the base

plate.

4. Remove two (2) screws holding the control panel to the

base plate.

5. Pull down the control panel and remove it forward.
6. Disconnect connectors and wire leads from the control unit.
7. Now the control panel assembly is free.

Flat type
screw driver

Terminal 
insulator

RECEPTACLE

COVERS

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1. CARRY OUT 3D CHECKS.
2. Remove the control panel from the oven cavity referring to

“CONTROL PANEL REMOVAL”.

3. Remove the two (2) screws holding the latch hook to the oven

cavity.

4. Open the door and pull the latch hook out of the oven cavity.
5. For stop switch removal

5-1. Disconnect the wire leads from the switch.
5-2. Push the retaining tabs outward slightly and then pull

the switch forwards and remove it from the latch hook.

6. For interlock or monitor switches removal

6-1. Disconnect the wire leads from the interlock or monitor

switches.

6-2. Remove the single (1) screw and nut holding the

interlock or monitor switches to the latch hook.

CAUTION: IF THE LATCH HOOK IS NEW, WHEN THE

INTERLOCK SWITCHES OR MONITOR
SWITCHES ARE INSTALLED, THE TWO (2)
TABS OF THE LATCH HOOK SHOULD BE
BROKEN.

Power supply cord

Cord bushing

Screw

Green/Yellow
wire

Brown wire

Blue wire

L

N

Noise filter 

1) Hold the lower end (Position A, Fig. 1) of the touch control

panel assembly firmly while sliding it down and toward you.

2) If the Touch Control Panel is hard to remove;
(1) Insert a flat head screw driver into space  B . (Fig. 1)
(2) Rotate the screwdriver clockwise while holding position  C of

the Touch Control Panel. (Fig. 2)

10. Disconnect the connectors (G) and (E) from the control

unit.

11. Remove four (4) screws holding the control unit to the

panel frame assembly.

12. Now, the control unit and control panel frame (with switch

unit) are free.

13. Remove the three (3) screws holding the switch unit

(Main) to the control panel frame.

14. Remove the two (2) screws holding the  switch unit (Sub.)

to the control panel frame.

15. Now,  the switch unit is free

13. Remove the two (2) screws holding the rotary encoder

unit to the control panel frame.

14. Remove the knob from the rotary encoder shaft.
15. Remove the one (1) special nut holding the rotary encoder

to the rotary encoder mounting plate.

16. Now,  the rotary encoder is free.

1. CARRY OUT 3D CHECKS

TOUCH CONTROL PANEL

SCREW DRIVER

2. Release the cord bushing from the rear cabinet.
3. Disconnect the brown and blue wires of the power supply

cord from the noise filter.

4. Remove the single (1) screw holding the earth wire of power

supply cord.

5. Remove the power supply cord.
Re-install
1. Insert the power supply cord into the cord bushing.
2. Connect the brown and blue wires of power supply cord into

the terminals of noise filter, referring to pictorial diagram.

3. Install the green/yellow wire of power supply cord with the

one (1) screw.

4. Re-install the cord bushing to the rear cabinet.
5. CARRY OUT 4R CHECKS.

Replacement of individual component is as follows:

8. Remove three (3) screws holding the control panel

mounting angle to the panel frame.

9. Lift up the control panel mounting angle from the panel

frame.

In case interlock switches, stop switch and monitor switches do
not operate properly due to a mis-adjustment, the following
adjustment should be made.

1. Loosen the two (2) screws holding the latch hook.
2. With the door closed, adjust the latch hook by moving it back

and forward, or up and down. In and out play of the door

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allowed by the latch hook should be less than 0.5mm. The
vertical position of the latch hook should be placed where the
stop switch and interlock switches have activated with the
door closed.
The horizontal position of the latch hook should be placed
where the monitor switches have activated with the door
closed.

3. Secure the screws with washers firmly.
4. Make sure of the interlock switches, stop switch, and monitor

switches operation. If those switches have not activated with
the door closed, loose two (2) screws holding latch hook and
adjust the latch hook position.

After adjustment, make sure of the following:
1. In and out play of door remains less than 0.5mm when in the

latched position.

2. The stop switch and interlock switches interrupt the circuit

before the door open when the door release lever is pulled,
and then and monitor switch close the circuit when the door
is opened.

3. Re-install outer case and check for microwave leakage

around the door with an approved microwave survey meter.
(Refer to Microwave Measurement Procedure.)

REMOVAL
1. CARRY OUT 3D CHECKS.
2. Remove the two (2) screws holding each of the upper and

lower oven hinges to the oven cavity.

3. Remove door assembly with upper and lower oven hinges by

pulling it forward.

4. Release upper and lower oven hinges from door assembly.
5. Now, door assembly is free.

NOTE: When individual parts are replaced, refer to "Door

Disassembly".

RE-INSTALL
1. Insert the upper and lower oven hinges into door hinge pins.
2. Insert the upper and lower oven hinges with door assembly

into rectangular holes of oven cavity front plate.

3. Make sure that the door is parallel with oven face lines (left

and upper side line) and door latch heads pass through the
latch holes correctly.

4. Fasten upper and lower oven hinges firmly to oven cavity with

two (2) screws on each hinge.

DOOR ADJUSTMENT
When removing and/or loosening hinges such as in door re-
placement, the following adjustment criteria are taken. Door
adjustment is performed with the door properly installed and
closed and while the oven hinges are loose.
1. Loosen upper and lower oven hinges with phillips head screw

driver.

2. Adjust the door by moving it vertically so that the top right

hand corner of the door is in line with the top of the control
panel frame assembly.

3. Tighten the upper and lower oven hinge screws.

After adjustment, make sure of the following:
1. Door latch heads smoothly catch the latch hook through the

latch holes, and the latch head goes through the center of the
latch hole.

2. Deviation of the door alignment from horizontal line of cavity

face plate is to be less than 1.0mm.

3. The door is positioned with its face depressed toward the

cavity face plate.

4. Re-install outer case and check for microwave leakage

around door with an approved microwave survey meter.
(Refer to Microwave Measurement Procedure.)

Note:

The door on a microwave oven is designed to act as an
electronic seal preventing the leakage of microwave
energy from oven cavity during cook cycle. This function
does not require that door be air-tight, moisture (con-
densation)-tight or light-tight. Therefore, occasional
appearance of moisture, light or sensing of gentle warm
air movement around oven door is not abnormal and do
not of themselves, indicate a leakage of microwave
energy from oven cavity. If such were the case, your
oven could not be equipped with a vent, the very
purpose of which is to exhaust the vapor-laden air from
the oven cavity.

Latch head

SW4: Monitor switch

(Oven side)

SW3: Monitor switch

Latch hook

SW1: Interlock switch

SW2: Interlock switch

(Oven side)

SW5: Stop switch

Latch head

Joint lever

Door release
lever

Head lever

OUTER CASE
CABINET 

UPPER
OVEN HINGE

LOWER
OVEN HINGE

LATCH
HEADS

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1. Open the door and insert a putty knife (thickness of about

0.5mm) in gap between the choke cover and corner portion
of door panel to free engaging parts. Refer to Fig. C-7.

NOTE: As the choke cover and door panel are engage at 16

places, do not force any perticular part.

2. Remove the choke cover carefully. (If choke cover is broken,

replace with a new one.)

1. Remove the door assembly from oven cavity, referring to

"REMOVAL" of "DOOR REPLACEMENT AND ADJUST-
MENT".

2. Remove choke cover, referring to "CHOKE COVER RE-

MOVAL".

3. Release the oven hinges from the door panel.
4. Now, the oven hinges are free.

UPPER 
OVEN HINGE

LOWER 
OVEN HINGE

CHOKE COVER

DOOR 
HANDLE

LATCH HEAD

BENT

2

1

PUTTY KNIFE

PUTTY KNIFE

CHOKE COVER

DOOR PANEL

FRONT

BENT

DOOR HANDLE REMOVAL
1

. Remove the door assembly from oven cavity, "REMOVAL" of

"DOOR REPLACEMENT AND ADJUSTMENT".

2. Place door assembly on a soft cloth with latches facing up.
3. Remove choke cover from door panel, referring to "CHOKE

COVER REMOVAL".

4.  Remove two (2) screws holding the door handle to door.
5. Remove the door handle from door panel.
6. Now, door handle is free.

7. Remove the door release lever from the door assembly.
8. Remove the three (3) screws holding the joint plate to the

door panel.

9. Release the latch spring from the tab of the joint lever and

joint plate.

10. Release the latch heads from joint lever and joint plate.
11. Now, the latch heads are free.

1. Remove the door assembly from oven cavity, referring to

"REMOVAL" of "DOOR REPLACEMENT AND ADJUST-
MENT".

2. Remove choke cover from door panel, referring to "CHOKE

COVER REMOVAL".

3. Remove door handle from door panel, referring to "DOOR

HANDLE REMOVAL".

4. Bend up four (4) nails of door case.
5. Remove door case from door panel.
6. Now, the door case is free.

7. Remove the four (4) screws holding two (2) outside window

fixing plates to door panel.

8. Now, the door glass is free.