I am trying to get my OGS 20.20 Combi oven to stop leaking steam and Its driving me nuts.
I have already leveled the unit on 4 different occassions as it would "move" until I made a bracket to keep it in place as I refuse to bolt equipment down unless its 100% needed.
A couple of months back, I leveled it, so its nice and level, door won't close -.- so I check again and readjust it just a bit and the door still wont close so I eyeball the door top level so its closing again but still leaking, adjusted it as good as I could but if I level it so its level, the door won't close...............
A while later I changed the door gasket and it started leaking like crazy a bit after that, I went through the checklist again and ended up adding spacers to bring the glass panel further out and squish on the gasket even more which made it stop at the time. Then I change the door gasket and here we are again, now I want to solve it for good and find the little, stupid, easy fix adjustment that will make it stop.
The door has a glass panel that seals to the door gasket, that's it. Nothing fancy but I can't get it to stop leaking, I went back to war today and took the door off and kicked it a little bit (made me feel better) then I checked both hinge pieces and adjusted them so the door is evenly spaced on the left seam and right seam to the door and they are within Cleveland's specs.
The picture below is after I did that and the gap got better on top but its still not 100% Now the level is telling me to raise the left side which will increase the gap even more so I did not do that.
Here is the unit running. There is steam right around the handle, a little hard to see but its there if you look close
I feel like I made real progress today by bringing the door gap even on both sides which it probably never was and I was too "concerned" to do anything about it, thinking I would mess up the door alignment but today, I figured that its messed up anyways, how much worse can it get? Then the door almost fell of when I loosened a bolt, but I caught it!
Anyways, I could use some help on this, I have followed Cleveland's instructions but they tend to require special tools and gimmicks to check it to a 100% so I am using what I got but I am hoping someone else has an idea of what would do it.
So...did your keyboard survive all the banging on it you did to release your aggression on this topic?
Not much help here. Our REALLY old combi-ovens blast steam from around their door seals like a cartoon caricature of one that 's fixin' to blow its TOP! I've tried and tried with those, but it proved a waste of time. Probably my own little foible in pursuit of perfection, since none of the Chefs ever complain about it. SO...so long as I can get the oven door to stop bathing the control panel with steam, I stop right there.
I know. Kind of a cop-out. Being in-house, I (and probably you) can get away with it. Sorta falls in line with why the CONVENTION OVEN lights don't work either.
I have FAR more success getting the counter-top units to seal up. The FLOOR models combi-ovens seem more inclined to leak. But YES - I'll ALL I can to get them to stop.
I think that in THOSE, the overall design sorta pushes those desired limits of integrity. Even one of our newer floor model ovens has leaked steam from day ONE. I shoulda had the installing company/warranty service provider pursue it, but...well - I DIDN'T. Addressed it myself and...it still leaks.
FWIW, I think you've outdone yourself in your perseverance to solve a chronic issue. I have a notion that your work ethics are commendable. Keep it up!