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The reason you don't see many antique room air conditioners is that it's simply not cost-effective to restore them.First they're not efficient and drink electricity,next,to prevent you from repairing them,parts are not available and the refrigerants they use(R-12 and R-22) are obsolete and have...

I may have answered my own question,but I found out pre-64 Kenmore electric ranges were made by a Roper subsidiary called Newark Ohio,Inc. This was their sole purpose-there were no Roper brand electrics until then. Sears owned 50% of Roper.

I did not know that Roper made electric ranges as early as the 1940s.Always thought they didn't introduce electrics until the 1960s.Never heard of a Roper branded electric that early. Were they just building their electrics for private label accounts? I always thought the early Sears models...