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Title: Main door removal vf-56 st Post by: USSEnterprise on May 28, 2006, 12:30:34 pm Is it possible to remove the main door on a VF-56 ST without irrevocably damaging it? I need to do so to get it down a flight of stairs
Title: Main door removal vf-56 st Post by: BryanH on May 28, 2006, 02:08:55 pm Sure - unplug the electrical connector at the bottom of the door (usually clipped just inside the compressor area) and lift the door up and off the hinges.
Title: Main door removal vf-56 st Post by: USSEnterprise on May 29, 2006, 08:45:51 am I've been trying. Nearly ended up knocking the whole thing over.
Title: Main door removal vf-56 st Post by: BryanH on May 29, 2006, 09:07:14 am Should work... the hinges may be gummed up. Try a heat gun or some penetrating oil to loosen them up.
Title: Main door removal vf-56 st Post by: loman4ec on May 29, 2006, 09:46:02 am It sometimes helps to have someone hold the machine while you lift the door up.
Title: Main door removal vf-56 st Post by: USSEnterprise on May 29, 2006, 10:38:44 am Its not budging. I tried oil and a hair dryer. Doesn't work. Here's a pic of the hinge
http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/8895/untitled0wk1.png Title: Main door removal vf-56 st Post by: collecture on May 29, 2006, 10:46:20 am They are sometimes very stubborn. I sometimes try to use my foot to kind of pry up on the bottom as I swing the door back and forth while lifting. As Josh said, getting another person to hold the machine may help.
Title: Main door removal vf-56 st Post by: MoonDawg on May 29, 2006, 10:59:16 am The 56 I have here has a cap at each end of the hinge pin. If you knock the top ones off you can get plenty of oil in there.
Also laying the machine down can give better leverage. And lastly by removing one breaker strip will expose the retaining nuts holding the hinge onto the body. Title: Main door removal vf-56 st Post by: rogerz on May 29, 2006, 09:14:53 pm I had a stubborn one and used a floor jack on it, after lots of penetrant.
rz Title: Main door removal vf-56 st Post by: sodaworks on May 29, 2006, 10:09:52 pm "wiggle" the door back and forth while applying upward pressure.
Title: Main door removal vf-56 st Post by: 90grad on May 30, 2006, 05:52:42 am I've noticed you have to take some of the weight out of the door before it will budge. Take off the bottle door (4 screws), the coin mech (some of those are heavier than others) and maybe the coin door. When I was tearing down my 56, the door wouldn't move at all. As soon as I took off the bottle door, coin mech and door, the main door lifted right up. What happens is the weight of the stuff in the door causes pressure to be exerted on the hinges, making it hard for you to lift it.
In geek terms the door is basically a cantilever (something hanging by a connection at one end - in this case the hinges). So, the more weight on the door, the more force put on the hinges. The weight basically pulls on the top hinge and pushes against the bottom hinge. The net result is a hard-to-remove door. Title: Main door removal vf-56 st Post by: davethebirdman on May 30, 2006, 08:55:49 am I seem to be having the same difficulty with my door on the V-56. I'm at work at the mo, so no piccies, but it looks like there is some sort of security device fitted to stop the door just being lifted up. Some sort of a clip. Has anyone ever come across that ??
Dave Title: Main door removal vf-56 st Post by: USSEnterprise on May 30, 2006, 04:41:16 pm I got it! I got it! I mother f'ing got it! I just stood on the main part of the machine, covered the hinges in 3-in-1 and WD-40, and lifted with all my might. Wow. That was hard. Now off to the hospital to fix my hernia
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