1500PRA Magic Chef Range - Instructions

Mary Kay from North Charleston, SC
Difficulty Level:
Really Easy
Total Repair Time:
Less than 15 mins

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Two old Surface Burner Receptacles needed to be replaced.

I followed the instructions given on your great site. Thank you so much.

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Willis from Anaheim, CA
Difficulty Level:
Really Easy
Total Repair Time:
Less than 15 mins
Tools:
Screw drivers

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Burners quit working

Bought two new replacement burners,they work great!

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Economy Y-frame Surface Unit - 6"

Economy Y-frame Surface Unit - 8"

Brenda from Brazoria, TX
Difficulty Level:
Really Easy
Total Repair Time:
Less than 15 mins

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surface burner stopped working. Was not heating up.

The repair only took me 10 minutes to do. I purchased the surface replacement kit from partselect.com. The part arrived in two days. The instructions were very simple. I read the instructions on line during my purchase. When I received the new part, I simply did the repair. Including shipping, the cost was less than $20.00. A service call would have been at least 5x the cost. Thank you for being there Partselect. (Tim from south bend indiana)

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timothy from south bend, IN
Difficulty Level:
Really Easy
Total Repair Time:
Less than 15 mins
Tools:
Nutdriver

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Replace lower heating element in oven

Simply unscrew the heating element attachment and remove, then replace with new one. My biggest problem was remembering how the oven door is removed to gain reasonable access to inside rear of oven. After exploring for a few minutes and pulling on oven door , it slide of it's hingrs - and then I remembered. Next problem was my wife making me clean the oven when the old element and oven door was removed.

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Bake Element

Thomas from Huntsville, AL
Difficulty Level:
A Bit Difficult
Total Repair Time:
30 - 60 mins
Tools:
Screw drivers

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burner not operating or intermittently

Shut off power at breaker box. Removed top burner unit. Removed old receptacle (Mounting screw was rusty so I drilld out the old one.) Cut wires from old unit. Stripped wires back on old unit. Attached old and new wire with ceramic wire nut. Attached new unit. Reinserted top unit. Reconnected power and "voila". Wife was smiling again.

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Elroy from Atwater, MN
Difficulty Level:
Easy
Total Repair Time:
15 - 30 mins
Tools:
Nutdriver

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Receptacle was no longer making good contact.

This worked out GREAT. We were about to purchase a new range when I found the needed parts were available. The stores we had contacted had told us our range was too old to have parts available. I had no problem with installing the receptacle at all. The pans went in easly as excepted. My wife is happy with her NEW arrangement. She does not need to learn how to operate a new range. Thanks for your help. The instructions sent were clear and easy to follow.

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Fred from Edwardsville, IL
Difficulty Level:
Easy
Total Repair Time:
15 - 30 mins
Tools:
Screw drivers

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unable to remove screw with screwdriver

used drill to remove old screw

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Emmett from Rayville, LA
Difficulty Level:
A Bit Difficult
Total Repair Time:
30 - 60 mins
Tools:
Pliers, Screw drivers

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Burner element stopped working

The repair itself is really quite easy. Cut the wires, strip the ends and attach the new receptacle with wire nuts. The hard part was getting to it. My cooktop is about 30 years old, so I had to wade through piles of nasty built up grease. Some of the sheet metal screws were unworkable, so I had to cut them off with a Dremel tool. Not a pretty picture, but that's how repair work is on old stuff.

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Robert from Lodi, CA
Difficulty Level:
Really Easy
Total Repair Time:
1- 2 hours
Tools:
Screw drivers

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Dirty drip bowl

Remove old drip bowl from the range and put a new one back.

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Paul from Carnegie, PA
Difficulty Level:
Really Easy
Total Repair Time:
Less than 15 mins

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Cartridge wire burned out

I was unable to remove the screw which held the electrical element.. so I took the new surface burner receptacle and removed the metal part, and used the old one and put in the new one in the old metal part and rewired, and it is like new.. now I need to do another one.

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Robert from San Francisco, CA
Difficulty Level:
A Bit Difficult
Total Repair Time:
30 - 60 mins
Tools:
Pliers, Screw drivers, Socket set

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I wanted to purchase new drip pans, since those that I have are a bit grimy

I will begin by saying that not only will I continue to order my parts from PartsSelect, but I also highly recommend this business. If you call Whirlpool be careful that they forward your call for parts to some preferred vendor, which a customer might assume is Whirlpool but it is not. PartsSelect is the same type of business, but with outstanding customer service. With regard to the drip pan, Whirlpool had not updated the part number for these as I found out when i called them. Whirlpool no longer uses the drip pans without the holes which is a serious problem since this could be hazardous to the owners of these ranges if you are forced to purchase the drip pans with the holes in them. That said, I ended up keeping my old drip pans, because if you spill grease under the new ones with the holes in them and since the range design with the fan built in on the top does not allow you to lift the top to clean under the pans, you could end up with a grease fire. This is not the fault of PartsSelect and they handled my order in a manner that I would give them a rating of exceptional for customer service.

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