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Waveguard cover replacement material

I got hold of an old Whirlpool AVM541 microwaveoven,

The waveguard cover is damaged and I want to replace it.

Can I use an ordinary cardboard (like a frozen pizza container) plate that i cut to size?

I understand that a sheet of mica will last longer, but the cost of available cardboard is zero, and mica is hard to find here in Oslo, Norway. Whirpool will sell me a replacement cover for 227.- NOK equal to roughly 22$. Thats way to expensive imho.

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@apprentice you’d be looking at some dielectric, durable and somewhat heat resistant material. I’d stay way from cardboard. Look at something like a piece of glass and. in the past. even some of the better plastics (yes I hate plastic too) have been used as waveguide. Any chance you can find a broken MW somewhere and modify that waveguide to replace yours.

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