The Tender
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If you dont mind a drive to Eugene. You can most likely get a Monaco take out from NW RV supply. Its a must visit place anyway. Call Joe the owner at 866-678-7467. They are also online.
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Tedtoo
Livingston, Texas
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This same problem came up sometime last year and someone had posted the answer in FIXYA.com
Try that site
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Savannah
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This happened to our micro also and we found a small appliance repair shop in Lafayette, Indiana to come to the rig and repair it. The parts and labor were around $125 and the service call was $50. We felt it was well worth it since they had to have the strong backs to remove, repair and reinstall. Maybe in these tight times more shops are willing to travel to get business.
We were about 35 miles from the shop but he came to that town once a week to pick up and deliver items to the Home Depot so just included us in his trip.
The micro is VERY heavy so be careful.
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mdock2
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I've sat for 2 months trying to figure out how to get that thing off the wall, the info that was given here helps out alot.. The door opener contol switch broke, thus the door will not open, glad food was not in there. Am planning on replacing unit with a different type of new one.....
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Big dog 04
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I had the same problem. It was a bad damper door motor which is located at the right rear of the unit. there are screws located at top and botton on rear of unit. Also two long bolts found when you remove air filters under microwave. They attach the microwave to wall plate. It will take two people to handle it.
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FC
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We had a problem with our Sharp after the second year of use, but it had a 3 year in home warranty, so the repairman came to our home where we had the MH parked and did the repairs without removing the unit.
Has worked perfectly ever since.
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mdock2
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mdock2 wrote:I've sat for 2 months trying to figure out how to get that thing off the wall, the info that was given here helps out alot.. The door opener contol switch broke, thus the door will not open, glad food was not in there. Am planning on replacing unit with a different type of new one.....
well, have a new GE sitting in the floor, and a appointment with a the RV repair shop on tWednesday, i'm not going to mess with it....
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Peter L
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Getting the infamous 59 second wonder non-functioning Sharp microwave convection/microwave oven fixed or replaced turned out to be like solving a mystery that no one seemed to know about from the clues I gave them.
I called Monaco service, Holiday Rambler service and Sharp service only to find that I was on my own in trying to figure out what was wrong, how to remove the microwave and what to do next.
What was wrong was a little motor that was supposed to open a little door when the microwave is in microwave mode that didn’t open and the unit over heated after 59 seconds. It seems that every one knows about the problem but few were able to give me a do it yourself answer to getting it done.
So, my able bodied wife and I decided to experiment and indeed found that there were no screws going into the microwave from the cabinet above as we were told many times by various people. There was however a 1/16” veneer covering on the bottom of the cabinet which when pried up with a knife exposed a ½” piece of wood that acted as the base of an aluminum channel to which was screwed two brackets riveted on the top of the microwave. The power cord hole was also exposed.
There was a 1” x 1” x about 16” (or the width of the microwave) piece of finished wood directly above the microwave but under the bottom of the cabinet screwed on with two of those square screws that once unscrewed displayed 5/8” 6 bolts fastened through two steel brackets that were riveted to the top of the microwave and bolted into an aluminum channel that was screwed under the bottom of the cabinet on the ½” wood which held the microwave in place.
In addition to the microwave sitting on the wall mounting in the rear it also had two 5/8” long bolts that were accessible when you removed the grease filters under the unit.
We removed the 6 bolts, fed the power cord through the hole in the bottom of the cabinet placed a plastic trash can under the microwave and proceeded to loosen the two long bolts that held the unit to the wall bracket and gently allowed the microwave to settle on the trash can before both of us lifting the complete unit off the wall rack and on to the table. The unit is heavy as many have mentioned.
We then had a Sharp repairman come to the house after we removed the microwave and brought it home only to discover that the 8 rivets that held the two steel brackets went right through the microwave’s frame which the repairman refused to remove and left without fixing or charging us for the attempted repair.
I spoke to a great Monaco service technician about the situation and he said since the microwave was under warranty he would simply send me a new one. SURE I thought.
Low and behold on Christmas Eve day a new unit with an F after its model number (which I took to mean FIXED) was delivered and I began to figure out a way to get it ready to install without re-drilling any holes and using the same steel brackets Monaco used to anchor the unit.
I thought by simply switching the outer shells of the microwaves would be the best bet and proceeded to drill out the rivets on the old unit that were placed in the frame and low and behold the cabinet came off after disconnecting the power cord. We then re riveted the brackets and switched the covers.
From there we were home free. Got everything back together, plugged in the new unit and ran it longer than 59 seconds and then re-installed it in the motor home using the same bolts and screws.
Tomorrow as promised I will return the old unit to Monaco and call the experiment a success without spending a penny for service.
I plan on keeping my fingers crossed every time we start the microwave and hope the “F” did mean fixed because I do not look forward to repeating this exercise ever again.
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Vacation Bound
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We had the 59 sec. problem as well. When we removed the old microwave we could use the same bracket with the new one. One problem was threading the cord through the wall. The major problem was the two screws on top of the microwave had been drilled into the microwave instead of the holes made for that purpose. There were shards of metal on top of the microwave still. We used the template that came with the new microwave and put the screws into the proper holes. It is definitely a two person job. It is true you take one out and put the other in but it is not quick & easy.
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mdock2
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Well, the new GE is in, only took a hour for removal and install. Glad I didn't try it, was more involved than i expected. now only if The A/C would have been that easy.
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