Whirlpool 8ET18DK User Manual

NO-FROST REFRIGERATOR-FREEZER

8ET18DK 3ET18DK 8ET20DK 3ET22DK 8ET22DK

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Use And Care Guide

A Note To You Important Safety

Instructions

3 Parts And Features Before Using Your

Refrigerator Using Your

Refrigerator

Caring For Your Refrigerator

Food Storage Guide

If You Need Assistance Or Service

Warranty

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A Note To You

Thank you for buying a Whirlpool* appliance.

You have purchased a quality, world-class home appliance. Years of engineering experience went into its manufacturing. To ensure that you enjoy many years of trouble-free operation, we developed this Use and Care Guide. It is full of valuable information on how to operate and maintain your appliance properly and safely. Please read it carefully. Also, please com plete and mail the Ownership Registration Card provided with your appliance. This will help us notify you about any new information on your appliance.

Your safety is important to us.

This guide contains safety symbols and statements. Please pay special attention to these symbols and follow any instructions given. Here is a brief explanation of the use of each symbol.

AWARNING

This symbol will help alert you to such dangers as personal injury, burns, fire and electrical shock.

This symbol will help you avoid actions which could cause product damage (scratches, dents, etc.) and damage to your personal property.

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Help when you need it.

If you ever have a question concerning your appliance’s operation, or if you need service, first see “If You Need Assistance Or Service” on page 22. If you need further help, feel free to call an authorized Whirlpool service center. When calling, you will need to know your appliance’s complete model number and serial number. You can find this information on the model and serial number label (see diagram on page 4). For your convenience, we have included a handy place below for you to record these numbers, the purchase date from the sales slip and your dealer’s name and telephone number. Keep this book and the sales slip together in a safe place for future reference.

Model Number Serial Number Purchase Date

Dealer Name. Dealer Phone

Important Safety Instructions

AWARNING

► Read all instructions before using the

refrigerator.

► Child entrapment and suffocation are

not problems of the past. Junked or abandoned refrigerators are still danger ous ... even if they will “just sit in the garage a few days.”

If you are getting rid of your old refrig erator, do it safely. Please read the enclosed safety booklet from the Association of Home Appliance Manu facturers. Help prevent accidents.

To reduce the risk of fire, electrical shock, or injury when using your refrigerator, follow these basic precautions:

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Help us help you

Please:

• Install and level the refrigerator on a floor that will hold the weight and in an area suitable for its size and use.

• Do not install the refrigerator near an oven, radiator or other heat source.

• Do not use the refrigerator in an area where the room temperature will fall below

13°C (55°F).

• Keep the refrigerator out of the weather.

• Connect the refrigerator only to the proper

kind of outlet, with the correct electrical

supply and grounding.

• Do not load the refrigerator with food before it has time to get properly cold.

• Use the refrigerator only for the uses described in this manual.

• Properly maintain the refrigerator.

• Be sure the refrigerator is not used by anyone unable to operate it properly.

• Never allow children to operate, play with, or crawl inside the refrigerator.

• Never clean refrigerator parts with flammable fluids. The fumes can create a fire hazard or explosion.

• FOR YOUR SAFETY •

DO NOT STORE OR USE GASOLINE OR OTHER FLAMMABLE VAPORS AND LIQUIDS IN THE VICINITY OF THIS OR ANY OTHER APPLIANCE. THE FUMES CAN CREATE A FIRE HAZARD OR EXPLOSION.

Parts And Features

This section contains captioned illustrations of your appliance. Use them to become familiar with where all parts and features are located and what they look like. The model you pur chased may have all or some of the parts and features shown and they may not match the illustration exactly. This manual covers several models.

Ice bin

Freezer shelf

Control panel

Model and serial number label (inside wall)

Lateral-adjust glass shelf

Meat drawer Adjustable

shelves (Spillguard shelves on some models)

Crisper cover

Humiditycontrolled crispers

Ice cube trays

and shelf

Freezer

light*

Removable

shelf*

Shelf glides

Utility

compartment

Butter

compartment

Egg bin

Adjustable

door bins

Bin glides

Deep

adjustable

door bins

Shelf glide

— Base grille

Leveling rollers

(behind base grille)

*On some models Model 8ET20DK shown

Control panel

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Refrigerator

control

EXTERIOR MOISTURE CONTROL

OFF

Exterior moisture Light

controi switch

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Freezer controi

Before Using Your

Refrigerator

In This Section

Page Cleaning your refrigerator Plugging it in

It is important to prepare your refrigerator for use. This section tells you how to clean it, connect it to a power source, install it and level it.

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Installing it properly

Leveling it................................

Cleaning your refrigerator

Removing packaging materials

Remove tape and any inside labels (except the model and serial number label) before using the refrigerator.

To remove any remaining giue:

• Rub briskly with thumb to make a ball, then remove.

• Soak area with liquid hand-dishwashing detergent before removing glue as described above. Do not use sharp instruments, rubbing alcohol, flammable fluids or abrasive cleaners. These can damage the material. See “Important Safety Instructions” on page 3.

NOTE: Do not remove any permanent instruction labels inside your refrigerator. Do not remove the Tech Sheet fastened under

the refrigerator at the front.

Cleaning it before use

After removing all packaging materials, clean your refrigerator before using it, if necessary. See cleaning instructions on pages 17-18.

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Plugging it in

Recommended Grounding Method

A 115 Volt, 60 Hz (Plug 1) or 220/240 Volt, 50 Hz (Plug 2), AC only 15 or 20 ampere fused and properly grounded electrical supply is required. It is recommended that a separate circuit serving only this appliance be provided. Use a receptacle which cannot be turned off with a switch or pull chain. Do not use an extension cord.

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Installing it properly

1. Allow 1.25 cm ('/2 inch) space on each side and at the top of the refrigerator for ease of installation.

2. If the hinge side of the refrigerator is to be against a wall, you might want to leave extra space so the door can be opened wider.

3. The refrigerator can be flush against the back wall.

Leveling it

Your refrigerator has 2 front leveling screws-one on the right and one on the left. To adjust one or both of these, follow the directions below.

1. Remove base grille. (See page 13.)

2. To raise front, turn screw clockwise.

3. To lower front, turn screw counterclock wise.

4. Check with level.

5. Replace base grille. (See page 13.)

Using Your Refrigerator

In This Section

Page

Setting the controls

Changing the control settings.................8

Adjusting the door bins Adjusting the bin/shelf glides Using the egg bin

Adjusting the lateral-adjust shelf.... 10

Adjusting the cantilever refrigerator shelves

Removing the meat drawer

and cover

Removing the crispers and crisper cover

To obtain the best possible results from your refrigerator, it is important that you operate it

properly. This section tells you how to set the controls, remove and adjust the features in your refrigerator, and how to save energy.

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Adjusting the crisper

humidity control Removing the freezer shelf

Raising the ice

compartment door

Using the ice cube trays Changing the light bulbs Removing the base grille Understanding the

sounds you may hear.............................15

Reversing the door swing......................16

Saving energy

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Setting the controls

Controls for the refrigerator and freezer are in the refrigerator. When you plug in the refrigerator for the first time:

1. Set the Refrigerator Control to 4.

Refrigerator Control adjustments range

from 1 (warmest) to 8 (coldest)

REFRIGERATOR

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2. Set the Freezer Control to C.

Freezer Control adjustments range from A (coldest) to C (warmest).

3. Give the refrigerator time to cool down completely before adding food. This may take several hours.

The settings indicated above should be correct for normal, household refrigerator usage. The controls are set correctly when milk or juice is as cold as you like and when ice cream is firm. If you need to adjust these settings, see “Changing the control settings” on page 8.

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