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Re: Dometic fridge door handles

Reply #1 –
Mot and Foretravel are doing a lot of refrigerator upgrades and think they junk the old ones. Am sure they would save the handles if they knew they were difficult to find.  Worth a call.  Me 11/2 cents worth
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Re: Dometic fridge door handles

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Quote from: jeff –
Mot and Foretravel are doing a lot of refrigerator upgrades and think they junk the old ones. Am sure they would save the handles if they knew they were difficult to find.
Or, just pull them off yourself if having a new fridge installed.  When we had a residential fridge installed, I removed the Dometic door handles and the walnut door panel inserts.  Saved the walnut for my own use - offered the door handles to Forum members gratis.  They were snapped up the same day I announced the availability...
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Re: Dometic fridge door handles

Reply #3 –
Heck, I just repaired two of mine for $0.98/apiece. The double ended spring breaks and then Dometic wants you to buy a new one for almost $40.00!!
I saw a post on how to replace the spring and went for it.
Go to your local hardware outlet (Lowes, Ace, etc) and buy the double roller cabinet latch hardware. It has two nylon rollers opposed to each other and pressure from a spring pushes them together. The male part is separate and has a "somewhat spearpoint" shape.
This part you can chuck.
The part with the rollers--take it apart by grinding off the rivet head. Take the pin out of your  Dometic door latch and remove the spring, noting how it goes in. Bend one leg of the cabinet spring to match the leg of the old Dometic spring. Cut about 1/8" off the leg you bent. Reassemble with the Dometic parts and pin. Put it on the door and you are good for quite awhile and you will never know it was broken!!
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Re: Dometic fridge door handles

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Quote from: Roland Begin –
And I think of you every time I open the refrigerator door. Thank you again.

As a kid, I was a pretty good boxer, kept in shape (sort of) and after numerous Dometic latch failures, I always dreamed of meeting the "engineer" that designed that latch. I'm left-handed, so he never would
have seen it coming!  ^.^d  So far, so good on our fresh Dometic, but we are VERY carefull opening and closing it!
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Re: Dometic fridge door handles

Reply #6 –
Buy a Norcold.
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Reply #7 –
CORRECTION: These are not the same. I looked at mine (broken plastic) and see that is in fact different in operation. My apologies to everyone.
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Reply #8 –
Buy a 10 CF. Frigidaire.  ^.^d  ^.^d  ^.^d
 
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