"...or if I've been twice unlucky."

Let's see, three sets of hinges, one door face, an entire door, an entire range. Actually I think you've been unlucky six times.

I doubt they'd go through all this effort to correct something that's working as designed.

Sorry, I know I'm of no help. Good luck.

Hazo, you're at least the third person in the past week or so to have posted about cranky BS oven hinges.

The oven door on the Bluestar 30" range does not go down to a 90 degree flat angle they are slightly raised. So i am not sure you have a problem.

I have uploaded a temporary picture you can see the one in our cooking school.

Here is a link that might be useful: Oven Door Open.

If you can't remove the bottom rack, how do you clean up spills on the bottom of the oven?

The fully extending rack is removable with ease. then you can lift the bottom of the oven out to clean it or leave it in the oven.

trevorlawson, thanks for uploading the temporary picture of your school's RNB. I appreciate it.

I cannot extend my bottom rack out nearly as far as your example. I'm estimating that my bottom roller rack extends 10-12" less than yours before hitting the oven door. Even with your example range, I feel that BlueStar has a design flaw with their hinges on this model. The rack shouldn't be impacting the inside of the door. There should be some clearance underneath the rack in order to pull the rack out of the oven without impacting the hot interior oven door face. The bottom rack should be able to be fully extended in order to lift out your heaviest dutch oven.

I looked at several models at two different stores. The gliding rack clears when fully open, but only with 1/4 inch clearance. I think with a heavy pot weighing it down, it might just touch the door. Why yours is different, I don't know, but I suspect it's the way the gliding rack is mounted on the oven rack guides. Perhaps it's mounted upside down?