Oven door won't lock (Clean cycle)

[Cativo]

Hi all,

My folks oven seems to have gone south on them. My mother states that when she went to start the self cleaning the screen displayed "Lock" flashing, but the door never locked. When I got there I saw she was right, but now the over blinks "Lock", but you can’t clear this. So, you cannot bake or broil because the screen flashes "Door". We tried power cycling the oven, and even left it off for a couple hours, but no go. It still won’t run the clean or bake/broil. You can set the hour for the clean, but it never really pulls the door totally shut. To me it seems as if the mechanism for the lock has gone bad. Any ideas, or drawings for me to troubleshoot this.

In the meantime, anyone know how I can clear this state, so she can use the oven until I can fix it for them?

Thanks ahead of time…

[Jason_B]

My parents have a Ge Refridgerator tfx27e that is not cooling as of this morning. We had repair place out and they said the compressor is bad. Per his words, he tested it and said electric is going to the compressor, but when it tries to turn on, something inside is stopping it so it won’t run, needs new compressor.

The issue is, this is in a custom kitchen and the fridge has wood paneling on the front and matches everything nicely. I’m afraid a new fridge will never work with the panels made for this one?

It it worth fixing? I’m also pretty handy, but the repair guy said it’s a 5 hour job. Advice?