Whirlpool WPW10200754 Glass-Door (Blk) OEM Part

I recently shattered the outer glass on my Whirlpool oven door. (Side note for lesson learned...don't swat at a fly with a broom when its on the oven door. I didnt swing hard just a love tap but thats all it took ha ha) The toughest part of the fix was removing the broken glass as it had shattered into hundreds...no thousands of pieces. Thankfully it was taped on the inside and that held some of it together. I placed the door in our garbage can and put on a pair of gloves with a scraper to remove the glass. Next I laid the door on a towell and used a scraper plus "goo gone" to remove the black glue that held the glass in place. I didnt worry much about scratches since this was on the inside of the door. The replacement glass arrived quickly from appliance parts and fir perfectly. There wasn't any glue but I noticed that the door had a lip in it that held the glass in place...plus the oven door handle screws go through the glass. To be safe I had some leftover all purpose adhesive calk that I used on there anyway. I dont know if it was needed but I had so... Everything went back together well. I had to use a tiny screw driver to assist with getting some of the screw holes to line up but other than that it was easy. I did make sure not to over tighten the handle screws as I read about some folks breaking the glass this way.

Let's start from the beginning. The #4 screws that the handle onto the front of the oven came loose causing the handle to....fall off. I removed the door, found the screws and attempted to re-install them. As I tightened the screws down the glass panel shattered. Unbeknownst to me, the screws insert through the glass pane to reach the handle, an idiotic and unnecessary manner in which to affix the door handle. If the glass MUST be positioned in this manner then, at minimum, special grommets of some sort should be installed into the holes in the glass. Once the panel was received in good order from the company, the next step was to scrape the shattered glass from the stainless steel fascia panel which had been glued to the glass. This alone was a nightmare. Again, unnecessary with little if any thought given to serviceability. The stainless plate is over $125 so I'd be damned if I was going to purchase one. All in all, once the shattered glass was removed things went well. * Piece of advice: use Loctite on screws upon installation and DO NOT over torque the screws. Do it and you'll shatter the glass. Lastly, the provided part was a perfect fit so APP did their job and id it well. Received in #2 days, perfectly packaged. I'm going to state that this is, in effect, and easy job ONCE the glass is scraped and you install the screws without shattering the glass. DON'T forget the Loctite.

Originally the handle came undone and tried to repair that. In the process of tightening the screws and moving the outside door, the glass cracked into a billion pieces. Note to anyone else....don't over tighten the handle screws. Fully removed the door and scraped all of the glass shards away. Ordered the replacement glass which came in 2 days. I used some high heat fire block caulk the corners as the adhesive that held the glass previously was not as sticky. Let it sit for 24 hours and proceeded to reassemble the glass and handle to the door plate, then placed that back onto the larger piece of the oven door. Tighten the screws and placed it back onto the oven. Looks good as new. Probably saved close to $200 plus the cost of the glass doing it myself.

Replaced the outer glass with the correct part. Wished there had been double sided tape supplied to replace the original tape because it was no longer sticky.