to After the year 2000 Aga Uk stopped making cast iron fixed pin doors and changed the design so that door hinge pins could be easily adjustable.
Prior to the adjusting pin, Aga range cooker cast iron doors had welded in pins that were bent & fettled to adjust the up and down alignment of an Aga range cooker door.
Why change over 60 years of tradition? To reduce the need for 'technician' adjustment and workshop fettling, and allow adjustment onsite in the home where fit levels may be different than in the workshop environment.
But the pesky things can work loose with use, and may need a little DIY adjustment at times, using a 3mm allen key, flat head screw driver and a dose of patience.
If your door is locking on your metal door catch, or not engaging on the door catch, you need to adjust your door hinge, moving the door incrementally up and down. The Aga is best off and cold when you make this adjustment. {easier with converted Aga range cookers of course!}
- Cool the Aga / oven down so that the door is easy to handle.
- Equip yourself with a 3mm allen key, replacement metric grub screws {M6x6mm} if lost and a flat head screw driver.
- Make sure that the door pin is loose and rotating in its cast iron hinge housing by released the grub screw using the allen key. Make sure that you have the correct door washers in place and test the door, they may solve the issue!
- With the door hung and the pin loose in the door {if it is not loose go back a step}, carefully use your flat head screwdriver on the underside of the pin to rotate. rotating the pin by small increments will allow the door to shift up and down.
- When you have the right position, {this is the tricky bit}, peer below the front hinge lug that supports the door to see the underside of the door pin. Note the position of the groove/screwdriver slot. You will need to make sure that you repeat this positioning when you lift the door away.
- Set the door down on a clean, soft surface like an old clean towel or card board.
- Pop the adjusting pin back into the position that you have recorded to memory, and use the 3mm allen key to re-engage against the door pin to secure.
- Check that the pins are solid in their housing.
- Re-hang the door making sure that you have washers still in place.
- If you went through the process without washers in place, please repeat the process.
