Hello all. A friend of mine has an Amana ACS3350AS gas range. They are having issues with the control panel shutting off when operating the oven (as similarly documented by several people on the forums).

The way they get the oven to stay on during operation is to take an ice pack (one that you would use on a sprained ankle), wrap it in foil, and place it over the control panel. This leads me to believe that the panel is OK, but excess heat is causing it to shut off.

So the other day while they were cooking, I noticed that the oven door does not completely close tightly all the way into the cavity ... the hinges seem weak. With the door "closed," there is a lot of hot air escaping out the top of the cavity, but when I push and hold the door closed, there is no heat escaping anymore. Would this excess heat be tripping a limit switch in the way of this heat & shutting off the control panel?

I had been doing a bit of reading in this thread ( http://forum.appliancepartspros...-shuts-off-when-hot.html ) about limit switches, cooling, etc, but I'm wondering given the behavior I've seen so far with the oven door, if I'm better off replacing the hinges first before going to the switches/fan to fix the control panel issue (the hinges are probably easier to replace)?

Your thoughts?

Thanks in advance!

-MP