Reinstall Oven Door on Philippine Brand Range Sansio 'Deluxe 5503'

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Reinstall Oven Door on Philippine Brand Range Sansio 'Deluxe 5503'

Mfgd. By 'Appliance Systems Corp' ca.1997

Energy Source: LPG

Not accustomed to Asian oven stove doors, I one-too-many times allowed the oven door to fly up of its own accord(in this country oven doors are sprung UP super tight to keep bugs and other critters out when the unit is unused.) The door popped out and landed, thankfully against ME, instead of the floor where breaking the heat-tempered glass face might have resulted.

The problem, as I learned all-too-well, is that these hinges are sprung so tight as to not be able to bend/hold them down at an angle such as to reinsert them into the accepting openings on the appliance. Even my own weight plus a long steel tire-iron could not push those hinges on the door down far enough or long enough for them to mate back inside those openings.

There are springs only in the oven door itself, none in or near the accepting openings on the stove.

Repeat: Not an American range where you can let the oven swing up by itself, or must lift it shut by yourself.

Help please! Twenty year old appliance in perfect working cond.