NO-FROST REFRIGERATOR- FREEZER Mode ET18PK \
Pease read this Use and Care Guide before you do anything ese... This booket tes you how to start your refrigerator, cean t, move sheves and adjust contros. t even tes you what new sounds to expect from your refrgemtor. Treat your new refrgemtor with care. Use it ony to do what home refrigerators are designed to do. Parts and features ICE CUBE TRAYS ADJUSTABLE H FREEZER SHELF MODEL AND SERIAL NUMBER 1 PLATE (not POWER SAVING CONTROL EVEUIN6 ROLLERS FREEZER - CONTROL / MEAT PAN UTILITY - COMPARTMENT - BUTTER COMPARTMENT = ADJUSTABLE SHELVES UTILITY BIN CRISPER COVER - CRISPERS \ Copy your Mode and Seria Numbers here... When you need service or ca with a question, have this information ready: 1. Compete Mode and Seria Numbers (from Mode Number the pate ocated as shown]. 2. Purchase date from saes sip. Seria Number Copy this information in these spaces. Keep this book, your warranty handy pace. and saes sip together in a Purchare Date Pease compete and mai the Owner Registraton card furnshed with this product. Servce Company and Teephone Number 2
Contents Page SAFETY FIRST... - 3 BEFORE YOU PLUG IT IN... 3 Insta Propery... 4 Leve Refrigerator-Freezer... 4 Remove Saes Labes.... 4 Cean It... 4 Pug Itn... 4 USING YOUR REFRIGERATOR.... 5 Setting the Contros.... 5 Changing the Contro Settings... 5 Power Saving Contro... 5 Changing the Light Bub... 6 Moving the Meat Pan and Cover... 6 Adjusting the Refrigerator Sheves... 6 Removing the Crispers and Crisper Cover... 6 Page Reversing the Door Swing... 7 Removing and Adjusting the Freezer Shef... 7 IceCubeTrays..... 7 Optiona Automatic Ice Maker... 7 Sounds You May Hear... 8 Energy Saving Tips... 8 CLEANING YOUR REFRIGERATOR.... 8 Ceaning Chart... 9 FOOD STORAGE GUIDE... 10 Storing Fresh Food... IO Freezing and Storing Frozen Foods.. 11 VACATION AND MOVING CARE... 14 IF YOU NEED SERVICE OR ASSISTANCE. 15 REFRIGERATOR WARRANTY... 16 01987 Whirpoo Corporation Before you pug it in Important Before using your refrigerator, you are personay responsibe for making sure that it... is instaed and eveed on a foor that wi hod the weight, and in an area suitabe for its size and use. is connected ony to the right kind of outet, with the right eectrica suppy and grounding. (Refer to your Eectrica Requirements and Grounding Instructions: ) is used ony for jobs expected of home refrigerators. is not near an oven, radiator or other heat source. is propery maintained. is out of the weather. is used in an area where the room temperature wi not fa beow 55 F [13C). is not used by those who may not understand how it shoud be used. is not oaded with food before it has time to get propery cod. 3
Insta propery... a I II,I c i-. Remove saes abes... Remove the Consumer Buy Guide abe, tape and any Inside abes before using the refrigerator. To remove any remainng gue: 1. Rub brisky with thumb to make a ba then remove. OR 2. Soak area with iquid hand dishwashing detergent before removing gue as described in step 1. DO NOT USE rubbing acoho or fammabe or toxic sovents, such as acetone, gasone, carbon tetrachorde. etc. These can damage the materia. NOTE: DO NOT REMOVE ANY PERMANENT IN- STRUCTIONS LABELS INSIDE YOUR REFRIGER- ATOR. Do not remove the Tech sheet fastened under the refrgemtor at the front. 1. Aow 3 inches (7.5 cm] befween overhead cabinets and refrigerator top. 2. Aow at east an inch (2.5 cm) between the re- frgerator condenser on the back and the wa. 3. Aow YZ inch (1.25 cm) on each side of the refrigerator for ease of Instaation. 4. If the refrigerator is to be against a wa, you mght want to eave extra space on the hinge sde so the door can be opened wider. Leve refrigerator-freezer... LEVELLING SCREW Cean it... Cean your refrigerator before using it. See ceaning instructions on paqe 8. Pug it in... I-PRONG GROUNDING TYPE WALL RECEPTACLE USE SCREWDRIVER TO ADJUST RIGHT TO RAISE; LEFT TO LOWER 1. To raise front, turn each screw to the right. 2. To ower front, turn each screw to the eft. 3. Check with eve. REFRIGERATOR POWER CORD J-PRONG GROUNDING PLUG RECOMMENDED GROUNDING METHOD A 115 Vot, 60 Hz.. AC ony 15 or 20 ampere fused and propery grounded eectrica suppy is required. It is recommended that a separate circuit serving ony this appiance be provided. Do not use an extension cord. Use a receptace which cannot be turned off with a switch or pu chain. See individua eectrica requirements and grounding instruction sheet in your iterature package.
Using your refrigerator REFRIGERATOR CONTROL POWER SAVING CONTROL LIGHT SWITCH FREEZER CONTROL Setting the contros... Contros forthe refrigerator and freezer are in the Give the refrigerator time to coo down comrefrigerator. When the refrigerator is pugged in for pieteiy before adding food. (This may take sevthe first time... 1. Set the REFRIGERA- These seftings shoud be about right for nor- TOR CONTROL to 3. mai househod refrigerator usage. 2. Set the FREEZER The contros wi be set about right when mik or CONTROL to B juice is as cod as you ike when ice cream is firm. To adjust a contro, reach under the consoe and turn the knob. Changing the contro settings... Adjust the Refrigerator Contro first. If you need to adjust temperatures in refrigerator Wait at east 24 hours between adjustments. or freezer, use the settings isted in the chart beow. Then adjust the Freezer Contro if needed. CONDITION: If Refrigerator Section is TOO WARM If Freezer Section is TOO WARM QUESTIONS? ca your If Refrigerator COOL-LINE@ Section is service TOO COLD assistance teephone If ICE isn t number MADE FAST ENOUGH [page 15). If BOTH SECTIONS are TOO WARM Power Saving Contro... REASON: Door opened often Large amount of food added Room temperature too warm Door opened often Large amount of food added Very cod room temperature (can t cyce often enough] Contros not set correcty for your conditions Heavy ice usage Very cod room temperature (can t cyce often enough] The Power Saving Contro on the Contro Consoe operates eectric heaters around the door openings. These heaters hep keep moisture from forming on the outside of the refrigerator. Door opened often Large amount of food added Very warm or very,,ood room temperatures - RECOMMENDED CONTROL SETTINGS: Refrigerator Freezer Refrigerator Freezer Refrigerator Freezer Refrigerator Freezer Refrigerator Freezer 1. Use the CONSUMES LESS ENERGY setting when humidity is ow. 2. Use the REDUCES EXTERIOR MOISTURE setting if moisture forms on the outside of the refrigerator. 5
Changing the ight bub... \ I?& 1. Reach behind the contro consoe to find bub. 2: Remove bub. 3 Repace with a 40-watt appiance bub. Moving the meat pan and cover... PULL OUT TO STOP. LF THE FRONT AND PULL AGAIN. IS HEAVY. EFUL. Adjusting the refrigerator sheves... Sheves can be adjusted to match the way you use your refrigerator. Gass sheves are strong enough to hod bottes, mik and other heavy food items. GLASS SHELVES ARE HEAVY. BE CAREFUL. Removing crispers and crisper cover... 6 1 OUT TO STOP, LIFT THE FRONT AND PULL AGAIN TO remove the meat pan and cover: 1. Side the meat pan out to stop. 2. Lift the front of meat pan. 3. Side pan the rest of the way out. 4. Tit cover up at front. 5. Lift up at back. 6. Pu straight out. To repace the meat pan and cover: 1. Guide the rear hooks of cover into the sots in the shef supports. 2. Tit up front of cover unti rear hooks drop into sots. Lower front of cover to eve postion. 3. Repace meat pan in reverse order of remova. To remove gass sheves: 1. Tit up at front. 2. Lift up at back. 3. Pu shef straight out. To repace gass sheves: 1. Guide the rear hooks into the sots in the shef supports. 2. Tit up front of shef unti hooks drop into sot. Lower front of shef to eve position. To remove the crispers: 1. Side crisper straight out to stop, ift front, then side the rest of the way out. 2. Repace in the reverse order. To remove the cover: 1. Push up gass insert from the bottom, then side out with both hands. 2. Lift front of cover frame and remove cover support. 3. Lift out cover frame by puing up and out. To repace the cover: 1. Fit back of cover into notch supports on was of refrigerator, then ower front into pace. 2. Repace cover support with the ong tab towards the front. NOTE: If the support needs adjustment, turn base right to raise, or eft to ower. 3. Side back of gass insert into pace, then ower front.
Reversing the door swing... You can change the hinges on your refrigerator so the doors open the other way. Refer to the instruction sheet incuded with your refrigerator. Removing and adjusting the freezer shef... To remove the shef: 1. Lift front sighty. 2. LIB back off supports. 3. Repace in reverse order. To adjust the shef: 1. Remove shef. 2. Remove supports by siding upwards. 3. Repace supports on desired eve. 4. Repace shef. Ice cube trays... If cubes are not used, they may shrink. The moving cod air starts a sow evaporation. The onger cubes are stored, the smaer they get.? Eytty!Tboth ends. 2. Sighty twist. Optiona automatic ice maker... If you have the automatic ice maker accessory or pan to add one ater [Part No. ECKMF-B3), there are a few things you wi want to know: The ON/OFF ever is a wire signa arm. Downfor making ice automaticay. UpJo shut off the ice maker. Shake the bin occasionay to keep cubes separated, and to obtain increased storage capacity. It is norma for ice crescents to be attached by a corner. They wi break apart easiy. LOWER SIGNAL ARM TO START IT ON You wi hear water running when ice maker is working. You hear ice fa into the bin. Don t et these sounds bother you. The ice maker wi not operate unti the freezer is cod enough to make ice. This can take overnight. Because of new pumbing connections, the first ice may be discoored or off-favored. Discard the first few batches of ice. If ice is not being made fast enough and more ice is needed, turn the Refrigerator Contro toward a higher number. Wait a day and, if necessary, turn the Freezer Contro toward A. If you remove the ice bin, raise the signa arm to shut off the ice maker. When you return the bin, push it a the way in and ower the arm to the ON position. If cubes are stored too ong, they may deveop an off-favor...ike stae water. Throw them away. They wi be repaced. Cubes in the ice bin can aso become smaer by evaporation. Good water quaity is important for good ice quaity It is not recommended that the ice maker be connected to a softened water suppy. Water softener chemicas such as sat from a mafunctioning softener can damage the ice maker mod and ead to poor quaity ice. If a softened water suppy cannot be avoided, then it is impor- tant that the water softener be we maintained and operating propery. 7
Sounds you may hear... 3 P /,---+ Possbie Sounds: Sight Hum, Sof HISS: Cicking or Snapping Sounds: Water Sounds: Ice Maker Sounds: - tricking water - thud (cafter of ice) Running Sounds: Your new refrigerator may make sounds that your od one didn t. Because the sounds are new to you, you might be concerned about them. Don t be. Most of the new sounds are norma. Hard surfaces ike the foor, was and cabinets can make the sounds seem ouder. The foowing chart describes the kinds of sounds that might be new to you, and what may be making them. Probabe Causes: You may hear the refrigerator s fan motor and moving air. The thermostat makes a definite cick when the refrigerator stops running. It aso makes a sound when the refrigerator starts. The defrost timer wi cick when the defrost cyce starts and stops. When the refrigerator stops running, you may hear gurging in the tubing for a few minutes after it stops. You may aso hear defrost water running into the defrost water pan. If your refrigerator has an ice maker, you may hear buzzing (from the water vave), tricking water and the catter of ice dumped into the bin. Your refrigerator has a high-efficiency compressor and motor. It wi run onger than oder designs. It may even seem to run most of the time. Energy saving tips... You can hep your refrigerator use ess eectricity Check door gaskets for a tight sea. Leve the cabinet to be sure of a good sea. Cean the condenser coi reguary. Open the door as few times as possibe. Think about what you need before you open the door. Get everything out at one time. Keep foods organized so you won t have to search for what you want. Cose door as soon as food is removed. Go ahead and fi up the refrigerator, but don t overcrowd it so air movement is bocked. Ceaning your refrigerator Both the refrigerator and freezer sections defrost automaticay. But both shoud be ceaned about once a month to hep prevent odors from buiding up.of course,spis shoud be wiped up right away. To cean your refrigerator turn the Refrigerator Contro to OFF, unpug it, take out a removabe parts and cean it according to the foowing directions.. It is a waste of eectricity to set the refrigerator and freezer to temperatures coder than they need to be. If ice cream is firm in the freezer and drinks are as cod as your famiy ikes them, that s cod enough. Keep the Power Saving Contro on CONSUMES LESS ENERGY uness moisture forms on refrigerator exterior. Make sure your refrigerator is not next to a heat source such as a range, water heater, furnace, radiator or in direct sunight.
Ceaning chart... Part Removabe parts [sheves, crisper, meat pan, etc.) Outside Inside was (Freezer shoud be aowed to warm up so coth won t stick.] Door iners and gaskets Dark pastics (covers and panes) Defrost pan (behind refrigerator on top of the motor) Condenser cois Foor under refrigerator What to use Sponge or coth; miid detergent and warm water. How to cean Wash removabe parts with warm water and a mid detergent. Rinse and dry. Sponge, coth or paper Wash with warm water and a mid towe; mid detergent; detergent. Do not use abrasve or harsh appiance wax (or ceansers. good auto paste wax). Rinse and dry. Wax painted meta surfaces at east twice a year with appiance wax or a good auto paste wax. Appy wax with a cean, soft coth. Do not use wax on piastic parts. Waxing painted meta surfaces provides rust protection. Sponge, soft coth or Wash with warm water and Paper towe, baking -mid detergent or soda, warm water, mid - baking soda (2 tabespoons [26 g] to detergent. 1 quart [.95 L.] warm water). Rinse and dry. Sponge, soft coth or Wash with mid detergent and warm paper towe; mid water. detergent, warm water. Rinse and dry. DO NOT USE Ceaning waxes, concentrated detergents, beaches or ceansers containing petroeum on pastic parts. Mid detergent and Wash with a soft coth or sponge. warm water; soft cean sponge and soft, cean Rinse and dry. coth. DO NOT USE paper towes, window sprays, scouring ceansers, or fammabe or toxic sovents ike acetone, gasoine, carbon tetrachoride, etc. These can scratch or damage the materia. Sponge or coth; mid Ro refrigerator out away from wa detergent and warm Wash defrost pan with warm water water. and mid detergent. Do not remove defrost pan to cean. Rinse and dry. Ro refrigerator back into pace. Use vacuum ceaner with brush attachment. Usua foor ceaners Cean dust and int from condenser cois behind the refrigerator at east once every other month. Leave an inch (2.54 cm) between wa and condenser cois on back of the refrigerator. Ro refrigerator out away from wa. Cean the foor. Ro refrigerator back into pace. Check to see if the refrigerator is eve.
Food storage guide STORING FRESH FOOD Cured or Smoked Meat and Cod Cuts. Han bacon, sausage, cod cuts, etc., keep best in origi na wrappings. Once opened, tighty re-wrap ii pastic wrap or auminum foi. Canned Ham. Store in refrigerator uness the abe says it s okay to store on the shef. Do nc freeze. Fresh Poutry...Wrap in pastic wrap. The pastic on poutry, as purchased, may be used for storage There is a right way to package and store refrigerated or frozen foods. To keep foods fresher, onger, take the time to study these recommended steps. Leafy Vegetabes...Remove store wrapping and trim or tear off bruised and discoored areas. Wash in cod water and drain. Pace in pastic bag or pastic container and store in crisper. Cod,moist air heps keep eafy vegetabes fresh and crisp. Vegetabes with Skins (carrots, peppers)...store in crisper, pastic bags or pastic container. Frut...Wash, et dry and store in refrigerator in pastic bags or crisper. Do not wash or hu berries unti they are ready to use. Sort and keep berries in their store container in a crisper, or store in a oosey cosed paper bag on a refrigerator shef. STORAGE CHART FOR FRESH AND CURED MEAT rlpe Approxmate Tme [days) Variety Meats... 1 to i Choken... Ground Beef... 1 to 2 1 to 2 Steaks and Roasts... 3 to 5 Cured Meats... 7 to 10 Bacon... 5 to 7 Cod Cuts... 3 to 5 If meat is to be stored onger than the tmes gven, foow the directons for freezing. NOTE: Fresh fsh and shetsh shoud be used the same day as purchased. Meat*...Meat is perishabe and expensive...you won t want to waste an ounce of it through careess handing. The foowing ist and chart give you packaging hints and time imits. Store meat in the meat pan. Fresh, prepackaged Meat. Store fresh meat in the store wrapping. Vacuum packaged meat can be frozen for as ong as one month if the sea is not broken. If you want to keep it frozen onger, you shoud wrap it with specia freezer wrapping I materia. Fresh Meat, Not Prepackaged. Remove the I marketwrapping paper and re-wrap in auminum I foi for storing it unfrozen. Cooked Meat. Wrap or cover cooked meat with I pastic wrap or auminum foi. Store immediatey. Eggs...Store without washing in the origina car, ton or use the Utiity Bin that came with YOUI refrigerator. Mk...Wipe mik cartons. For best storage, pace mik on interior shef. Beverages...Wipe bottes and cans. Store on c door shef or inside the refrigerator. Buter...Keep opened butter in covered dish OI in the Butter Comparment. When storing an extra suppy, wrap in freezer packaging and freeze. Cheese...Store in the origina wrapping unti you are ready to use it. Once opened, re-wrap tighty in pastic wrap or auminum foi. Condments...Store sma jars and bottes (catsup. mustard, jey, oives] on the door sheves where they are in easy reach. Leftovers...Cover eftovers with pastic wrap OI auminum foi to keep food from drying out and transferring food odors. Pastic containers with tight ids are fine, too. I
FREEZING & STORING FROZEN FOODS The freezer section is designed for storage of commerciay frozen foods and for freezing foods ot home. Packagng - The secret of successfu freezing is in the packaging. The wrap you use must be air, moisture and vapor proof. The way you cose and sea the package must not aow air, moisture or vapor in or out. Packaging done in any other way coud cause food odor and taste transfer fhroughout the refrigerator and drying of frozen food. Rigid poyethyene (pastic) containers with tighffitting ids, straight-sided canning/freezing tars, heavy-duty auminum foi, pastic-coated paoer and nonpermeabe pastic wraps [made from 3 Saran fim) are recommended. NOTE: Heatheaed bong bags are easy to use and can be used by themseves or as carton iners. Seang - When seaing foods in bags squeeze >ut the air (iquids need headspace to aow for?xpansion). Twist the fop and turn it back. Fasten tie securey around the doubed-over tai. Put the abe inside transparent bags; use sef-adhesive abe on outside of opaque ones. DO NOT USE: Bread wrappers Non-poyethyene pastic containers Containers without tight ids Waxed paper Waxed-coated freezer wrap Thin, semi-permeabe wrap None of these are totay moisture, air or vapor proof. The use of these wrappngs coud cause food odor and taste transfer and drying of frozen food. Air-tight wrapping cas for drugstore wrap. Cut the sheet about one-third ongerthan the distance around the food. Bring the ends together and fod in (toward the food] at east twice to sea out air. Crease ends cose to food, press air from package. Fod tips over twice. Finish package and tape cosed. NOTE: With unboned meats, pad sharp edges wth extra wrap or use stockinette to protect the wrap from punctures. Freezing Fruits - Seect ripe, bemish-free fruits. Be sure they taste as good as they ook. Wash 2 to 3 quarts (iters) at a time and drain. Fruit that stands in wafer may ose food vaue and become soggy. Sort, pee, trim, pit and sice as needed. Pack in rigid wide-mouthed containers or other recommended materia. Leave head space to aow iquids to expand during freezing. 11
Freezing Vegetabes - Freeze ony fresh highquaity vegetabes picked when barey mature. For best resuts, freeze no more than 2 to 3 hours after picking. Wash in cod wafer, sort and cut info appropriate sizes. Banch or scad. Pack in recommended container and freeze. Do not freeze ettuce, ceery, carrot sticks, potatoes or fresh tomatoes. A wi become imp or mushy. Tomatoes wi coapse when thawed. Freezng Cooked Food - Prepare cooked foods as you woud for the tabe; shorten cooking time 10 to 15 minutes to aow for additiona cooking during reheating. Omit seasonings and part of the iquid. Pan to add them at reheating time. Potatoes shoud aso be added to soup and stew at heating time. Add crumb and cheese toppings at heating time. Coo as rapidy as possibe and freeze at once. Liquid or semi-iquid dishes may be frozen in recommended containers with head-space. Casseroes and other more soid foods may be frozen in the baking container. If you don t want to eave your casseroe dish in the freezer, ine it with foi. Bake, coo, freeze, ift out the foi package, bag it and return to freezer. Freezing Meats - The meat you thaw can ony be as good as the meat you freeze. Drugstore wrap in mea-size packages. Fat cuk or patties shoud be wrapped individuay or in ayers separated by a doube thickness of freezer wrap. Make sure store wrappings are moisture and vapor proof. If not. re-wrap meats with one of the wraps recommended under Packaging: Freezing Baked Goods - Wrap baked breads in recommended materia. Thaw in wrapping. Unbaked yeast breads can be frozen after the first rising. Punch down, wrap and freeze. Bake cookies as usua. Coo and freeze on trays, then pack in recommended freezer bags or cartons. Unbaked cookies may be tiropped, moded or roed and frozen on cookietrays. Store in bag or carton; bake without thawing. Refrigerator-type cookies can be wrapped and frozen in ro form. Thaw ony enough to sice when ready to bake. Fruit pies are best frozen unbaked. Bake without thawing. Bake pecan and simiar pies before freezing...rich fiings do not freeze soid. Cut steam vents in top crusts when ready to bake. 12
HPORTANT: Do not expect your freezer to quickreeze any arge quantity of food. Put no more infrozen food Into the freezer than wi freeze rthn 24 hours. (No more than 2 to 3 pounds of >od per cubic foot of freezer space.) eave nough space for ar to circuate around pack- Iges. Be carefu to eave enough room at the ont so the door can cose tighty. FOOD STORAGE CHART Storage times wi vary according to the quaify of the food, the type of packaging or wrap used (moisture and vapor-proof), and the storagetemperature which shoud be 0 F ( -17.B C). Food Storage Tme FRUITS Fruit Juice concentrate... 12 months Commerciay frozen fruit... 12 months Ctnrs frutt and Juices... 4 to 6 months Others... Bto 12months VEGMABLES Commerciay frozen... 8 months Home frozen... B to 12 months MEAT Bacon... 4 weeks or ess Corned beef... 4 weeks or ess (Satng meat shortens freezer ife) Frankfurters... 1 month Ground beef, amb, vea... 2 to 3 months Roasts: Beef... 6 to 12 months amb and vea... 6 to 9 months Pork... 4 to8 months Sausage, fresh... 1 to 2 months Steaks and chops: Beef... 8to12months Lamb, vea, pork FISH... 3 to 4 months Cod, founder, haddock soe... 6 months 2 to 3 months 2 to 3 months Bue fish, Mackere, samon... perch... Breaded fish (purchased) Cams, oysters, cooked... 3 months fsh, cmb, scaops... 3 to 4 months 10 months Shrmp, uncooked... 12 months OULTRY Whoe chcken or turkey... 12 months Duck... 6 months Gibets... 2to 3 months Cooked poutry w/gravy... 6 months Sices (no gmvy)... 1 month RAIN DISHES Aaskan kng cmb... Stews; meat, poutry and fish casseroe... 2 to 3 months TV dinners... 3 to 6 months Food Stomge Tme DAIRY PRODUCTS Butter... Margarine... 6 to 9 months 12 months Cheese: Camembert, Mozzarea, farmer%... 3 months Creamed cottage... DO NOT FREEZE Cheddar, Edam, Gouda, Swiss, brick, etc.... 6 to 8 weeks Freezng can change texture of cheese. Ice cream, Ice mik, sherbet... 2 months EGGS Whoe (mxed)... 12 months Whtes..,,... 12 months Yoks... 12 months [Add sugar or sat to yoks or whoe mixed eggs) BAKED GOODS Yeast breads and ros... 3 months Baked Brown N Serve ros... 3 months Unbaked breads... 1 month Quok breads... 2 to 3 months Cakes, unfrosted... 2 to 4 months Cake&frosted... 8 to 12 months Fruit cakes... 12 months Cooke dough... 3 months Baked cookies... 8 to 12 months Baked pies... 1 to 2 months Pe dough ony... 4 to 6 months Based on U.S.D.A. and Michigan Cooperative Extension Service suggested storage times. If eectricity goes off Ca the power company. Ask how ong powe wi be off. 1. If service is to be interrupted 24 hours or es: keep both doors cosed. This wi hep frozer foods to stay frozen. 2. If service is to be interrupted onger than 24 hours: (a) Remove a frozen food and store in c frozen food ocker. Or... (b) Pace 2 Ibs (0.9 kg) of dry ice in freezer fo every cu. ft. of freezer space. This wi keer frozen foods for 2 to 4 days. Wear goves tc protect your hands from dry ice burns. (c) If neither food ocker storage nor dry ice i: avaiabe, use or can perishabe food a once. 3. A fu freezer wi stay cod ongerthan a par-b\ fied one. A freezer fu of meat wi stay cot onger than a freezer fu of baked goods. I food contains ice crystas, it may be safe11 refrozen, athough the quaity and favor ma\ be affected. Use refrozen foods quicky. If the condition of the food is poor or you have an suspicions, it IS wise to dispose of it. 13
and Short vacations... No need to shut off the refrigerator if you wi be away for ess than four weeks. Use up perishabes; freeze other items. If your refrigerator is equipped with an automatic ice maker: 1. Turn if off. 2. Shut off the water suppy to the ice maker. 3. Empty the ice bin. Long vacations... Remove a the food if you are going for a month or more. If your refrigerator is equipped with an automatic ice maker, turn off the water suppy to the ice maker at east a day ahead. When the ast oad of ice drops, turn off the ice maker. Unpug the refrigerator and cean it...rinse we and dry. Tape rubber or wood bocks to both doors...keeping them open far enough for air to get in. This wi keep odor and mod from buiding up. Moving... If your refrigerator is equipped with an automatic ice maker, shut off the ice maker water suppy a day ahead of time. Disconnectthe wafer ine. After the ast suppy of ice drops, ifi the signa arm to turn off the ice maker. Remove a food. Pack frozen foods in dry ice. Unpug the refrigerator and cean it thoroughy. Remove everything that comes out. Wrap a parts we and tape them together so they don t shift and ratte. Screw in the eveing roers; tape the doors shut; tape the eectric cord to the cabinet. When you get to your new home, put everything back, and refer to page 4. Don t forget to reconnect the water suppy ine if you have an ice maker. Questions?...ca your COOL-LINE n service assistance teephone number (page 151. To restart refrigerator, erator: see Using Your Refrig- 14
If you need service or assistance, we suggest you foow these five steps: 1. Before Caing for Assistance... Performance probems often resut from itte things you can find and fix yoursef without toos of any kind. If your refrigerator wi not opemte: Is the eectric cord pugged into a ive circuit with proper votage? [See page 4.) Have you checked your home s main fuses or circuit breaker box? Is the Refrigerator Contro ON? If there Is a mttng or Jngng nose or unfamiiar sounds: Is something on fop or behind the refrigerator making noise when the refrigerator is running? New features on your new refrigerator make new sounds. You may be hearing air fowing from the fans, timer cicks for the defrosting cyce, or defrost water draining in the defrost pan. If your Ice maker wi not operate: Has the freezer had enough time to get cod? With a new refrigerator, this might take overnight. Is the signa arm ON...in the down position? Is the wafer vave turned on? Is wafer getting to the ice maker? If there Is water In the defrost pan: This is norma in hot, muggy weather. The pan can even be haf fu. Make sure the refrigerator is eve so the pan does not overfow. If the ight does not work: Have you checked your home s main fuses or circuit breaker box? Is the power suppy cord pugged info a ive circuit with the proper votage? (See page 4.) If a bub Is burned out: See instructions for changing ight bubs on page 6. Ony use appiance bubs. If the motor seems to run too much: Is the condenser, behind the refrigerator, free of dust and int? On hot days, or if the room is warm, the motor naturay runs onger. If the door has been opened a ot, or if a arge amountof food has been put in,fhe motor wi run onger to coo down the interior. Remember: Motor running time depends on different things; number of door openings, amount of food stored, temperature of the room, setting of the contros. And, your new refrigerator may be arger than your od one so it has more space to be cooed. It aso has a reguar freezer instead of a frozen food compartment. A this means better refrigeration and may require more running time than your od one. 2. If you need assistance?.. Ca Whrpoo COOL-LINE@ service assistance teephone number. Dia free from anywhere In the U.S.: -800-2531301 and tak with one of our trained Consutants. The Consutants can instruct you in how to obtain satsfactory operation from your appiance or, if service is necessary, recommend a quaified service company in your area. 3. If you need service%.. Whirpoo hasa nation- wide network of franchised TECH-CARE@ service companies. TECH- CARE service technicians are trained to fufi the product warranty and provide after-warranty service, anywhere In the United States. To ocate TECH-CARE service in your area, ca our COOL-LINE service assistance teephone number (see Step 2) or ook in your teephone directory Yeow Pages under: APPLIANCES-HOUSEHOLD- ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES- MAJOR-SERVICE 6 REPAIR MAJOR - REPARING I PAR!Z WHIRLPOOL APPLIANCES FRANCHISED TECH-CARE SERVICE OR WHIRLPOOL APPLIANCES FRANCHISED TECH-CARE SERVICE SERVICE COMPANIES SERVICE COMPANIES XY2 SERVICE CO XV2 SERVICE CO 123 MAPLE 999.9999 123 MAPLE 999.9999 OR WASHING MACHINES, DRYERS 6 IRONERS - SERVICING WHIRLPOOL APPLIANCES FRANCHISED TECH-CARE SERVICE SERVICE COMPANIES XV2 SERVICE CO 123 MAPLE 9999999 4. If you have a probem*... Ca our COOL-LINE service assistance teephone number (see Step 2) and tak with one of our Consutants. or if you prefer, write to: Mr. Robert Staney Division Vice President Whirpoo Corporation 2000 US-33, North Benton Harbor, M 49022 5. If you need FSP repacement parts?.. FSP@ is a registered trademark of Whirpoo Corporation for quaity parts. ook for this symbo of quaify whenever you need a repacement part for your Whirpoo appiance. FSP repacement parts wi fit right and work right, because they are made to the same exacting specficatons used to buid every new Whirpoo appiance. To ocate FSP repacement park in your area, refer to Step 3 above or ca the Whirpoo COOL- LINE service assistance number in Step 2. If you must ca or write, pease provide: mode number, seria number, date of purchase, and a compete description of the probem. This Information is needed in order to beter respond to your request for assistance. 15
WHIRLPOOL W-T-Y REFRIGERATOR LENGTH OF WARRANTY WHIRLPOOL WILL PAY FOR FULL ONE-YEAR WARRANTY From Date of Purchase FULL FIVE-YEAR WARRANTY From Date of Purchase WHIRLPOOL WILL NOT PAY FSP repacement parts and repair abor to correct defects in materias or workmanship. FSP repacement parts and repair abor to correct defects in materias or workmanship in the seaed refrigeration system. These parts are: 1. Compressor 2. Evaporator 3. Condenser 4. Drier 5. Connecting tubing A. Service cas to: 1. Correct the instaation of the refrigerator. 2. Instruct you how to use the refrigerator. 3. Repace house fuses or correct house wiring or pumbing. 4. Repace ight bubs. B. Repairs when refrigerator is used in other than norma, singe-famiy househod use. C. Pick up and deiver. This product is designed to be repaired in the home. D. Damage to refrgerator caused by accident, misuse, fire, food, acts of God or use of products not approved by Whrpoo. E. Anv food oss due to oroduct faiure. I I Service under the fu warranties must be provided by a franchised TECH-CARE@ service company. WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUEN- TIAL DAMAGES. Some states do not aow the excusion or imitation of incidenta 01 consequenta damages so this imitation or excusion may not appy to you. This warranty gives you specific ega rights, and you may aso have other rights which vary from state to state. Outside the Unted States, a different warranty may appy. For detais, pease contact your franchised Whirpoo dstrbutor or miitary exchange. Part No.1114055 Rev. A 01987 Whirpoo Corporation Printed in U.S.A. e Maker% Dishwashers. Buit-h! Ovens and Sukxc Un~s Ranges Microwave Ovens. Trash Compactors. Room Au Condiioners. Oehumidiiers. Auomaic Washers. Cothes Dryerr. Freezers. Rerigerd