Ge Microwave Glass Door Shattered

I have a model jvm1790sk01 ge microwave oven and the the glass inside the door panel shattered.

Ge microwave glass door shattered. Microwave radiation is blocked by the metal nest sealed inside the space of broken glass. It is an unfortunate reality that products do fail from. The part i m having trouble with is disassembling the door frame read more. I ordered a replacement glass panel.

Electronics for general electric. The microwave industry uses heat strengthened glass for glass doors. Incidents of microwave glass spontaneously exploding. Microwave oven door glass breakage.

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. They don t ship you a new door just the glass and then the old door gets disassembled and reassembled. The lawsuit said the glass shatters due to the interference of the inside surface of the glass and a. This is a heat treatment process the glass is put through that allows it to withstand a certain amount of impact.

Ge representatives say the microwave was manufactured by lg. Kim freeman of ge wrote to me thursday offering to give some context around the rare instance when the glass in an oven door does break. Make sure there is not any damage to the nest. In the rare case the glass does break it is designed to break into small pieces.

It is not something that you can replace yourself even if you are handy. 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. I had the same problem with my identical model ge microwave oven. Ge warns consumers about inadvertent damage to glass oven doors including the potential for broken or shattered glass in its use and care guide a statement from general electric said.

Konstantinos gus luizos has a ge oven that is rarely used. Mine was installed in 2004 and it shattered in 2007 and again this past weekend.