Whirlpool RT18BK User Manual

Home Appliance!

Use And Care

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 17 If You Need Assistance

Or Service 20 Warranty

1-800-44-ROPER

Call us with questions or comments.

NO-FROST REFRIGERATOR-FREEZERS

MODELS RT18AK RT18BK RT18DK RT20AK

RT18BM RT18EK RT20CK

A NOTE TO YOU

ANoteToYou

Thank you for buying a Roper appliance.

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

Acaution

Our toll-free number, 1-800-44-ROPER (1-800-447-6737), is available 24 hours a day.

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 20. If you need further help, feel free to call us. 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 diagrams on pages 4 and 5). For your conve nience, 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

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 stiii dangerous ... even if they wiil “just sit in the garage a few days.”

If you are getting rid of your old refrigerator, do it safeiy. Please read the enclosed safety booklet from the Association of Home Appiiance Manufacturers. Help prevent accidents.

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

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Help us help you

Please:

• Install and level the refrigerator on a fioor that wiii hold the weight and in an area suitabie for its size and use.

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

• Do not instaii the refrigerator in an area where the room temperature wiii fall below 55°F

(13°C).

• Keep the refrigerator out of the weather.

• Connect the refrigerator oniy to the proper kind of outlet, with the correct eiectricai suppiy and grounding. (Refer to the Eiectricai Require ments and Grounding Instructions Sheet.)

• Do not ioad 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 ciean refrigerator parts with fiammable fiuids. The fumes can create a fire hazard or expiosion.

• 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.

Also, remove tape and any inside iabeis (except the model and serial number label) before using the refrigerator.

To remove any remaining glue:

• Rub briskly with thumb to make a baii, then

remove.

• Soak area with iiquid hand dishwashing

detergent before removing giue as described above. Do not use sharp instruments, rubbing alcohoi, flammabie fiuids or abrasive cieaners. These can damage the materiai. See “impor

tant Safety Instructions” above.

NOTE: Do not remove any permanent instruction iabeis inside your refrigerator. Do not remove the

Tech Sheet fastened under the refrigerator at the front.

PARTS AND FEATURES

Parts And Features

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

Control panel (all models)

Refrigerator

control

Exterior moisture Light

control switch

Models RT18AK (shown), RT18BK and RT18BM

Automatic

ice maker

(RT1BBM only) Ico cube trays

(RT1SAK and RT1BBK)

Freezer shelf Control panel Model and serial

number label (on side wall)

Meat drawer

Adjustable shelves (glass or

wire, depending

on model)

Freezer control

Butter

compartment

Crisper cover

Crispers

Leveling rollers (behind base grille)

Base grille

Models RT18DK (shown) and RT18EK

ice cube trays

Freezer shelf (parb'al shelf on RT18EK)

Control panel

PARTS AND FEATURES

Model and serial

number label

(on sidewall) Meat drawer

(RTISDKonly) Adjustable

wire shelves

Leveling rollers (behind

base grille)

Models RT20AK (shown) and RT20CK

Ice cube trays

Freezer shelf Conhol panel Model and

serial umber label

(on side wall)

Butter

compartment

Crisper cover

Crispers

(wire trivet

RT18EK)

Base grille

Butter

compartment

Utility

compartment

Meat drawer

Adjustable

shelves (glass on RT20AK,

wire on RT20CK)

Leveling rollers

(behind base grille)

Crisper cover

Crispers

Base grille

BEFORE USING YOUR REFRIGERATOR

Before Using Your Refrigerator

In This Section

Clean It

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Plug It In.......................................

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

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Install It properly

Level it

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Clean it

Clean your refrigerator before using it, if neces sary. See cleaning instructions on page 15.

Plug it in

Recommended Grounding Method

A 115 Volt, 60 Hz., 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.

See Electrical Requirements and Grounding

Instructions Sheet in your Literature Package.

3-prong grounding type wall receptacle

Refrigerator power cord

3-prong grounding plug

Install it properly

1. Allow Vi inch (1.25 cm) 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 wall.

4. If your refrigerator has an automatic ice maker, hook up the ice maker water supply. (See Installation Instructions.)

BEFORE USING YOUR REFRIGERATOR

Level 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 counterclockwise.

4. Check with level.

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

Right to raise;

left to iower

Front

roller

USING YOUR REFRIGERATOR

Using Your Refrigerator

In This Section

Setting the controls

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

Adjusting the refrigerator shelves Removing the meat drawer and cover Removing the crispers and crisper cover Removing the trivet and cover Removing the freezer shelf

In order to obtain the best possible results from your refrigerator, it is important that you operate it properly. This section will tell you howto do just that.

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Using the ice cube trays

Using the automatic ice maker

Changing the light bulbs

Removing the base grille

Reversing the door swing

Understanding the sounds you may hear

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Saving energy

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Setting the controls

Temperature controls

Controls for the refrigerator and freezer are in the

refrigerator. When the refrigerator is plugged in

for the first time:

1. Set the Refrigerator Control to 4.

Refrigerator Control adjustments range from 1 (warmest) to 8 (coldest).

REFRIGERATOR

WARMER

COLDER

2. Set the Freezer Control to C.

Freezer Control adjustments range from A (coldest) to D (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 will be 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 9.

Exterior moisture control

The Exterior Moisture Control operates electric heaters around the door openings. These heaters help keep moisture from forming on the outside of the refrigerator cabinet.

1. Use the OFF setting when humidity is low.

2. Use the ON setting if moisture forms on the

outside of the refrigerator cabinet.

FREEZER

■ WARMER ^jH C puj COLDER I

EXTERK

)R MOISTURE C ONTROL

OFF ON

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