Thetford N81 Series Installation Manual - Current - Manuel (Page 14)

Installation Manual 14
Reverse the Door Swing-Metal Doors (optional)
This refrigerator has door hinges that allow you to change the direction the door opens by
moving the hinges on a diagonal to the opposite side.
1. Remove the doors (See Art00986):
- Remove the storage bins from the doors.
- Remove and save both hinge pins [71] from each door.
- Pull the door latch and remove each door away from the refrigerator.
2. Change the position of the cabinet hinges and the strike plate (See Art01728):
- Remove and save the screws from the strike plate [65a].
- Remove the two plastic hole caps that are near the strike plate.
- Remove the L-shaped plastic covers that are opposite the hinges.
- Remove and save the screws from the upper cabinet hinge [67a] of each door.
- Put each of these hinges on the other side of the refrigerator
as the lower hinge [67b].
- Attach each of these hinges with screws.
- Remove and save the screws from the lower cabinet hinge
[66a] of each door.
- Put each of these hinges on the other side of the refrigerator
as the upper hinge [66b].
- Attach each of these hinges with screws.
- Put the L-shaped plastic covers over the holes that were used
by the hinges.
- Remove and save the screw [41] from the front box [68] (See
Art01573).
- Pull the front box away from the refrigerator and out from
under the controls [69].
- Reverse the front box and put it on the opposite side of the
controls.
- Attach the front box to the refrigerator with the screw.
- Put the strike plate on the opposite side of the refrigerator
[65b].
- Put the two round plastic caps into the holes that are near the
strike plate.
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