30" Caloric Gas Range/Avocado/ Model 75/ $175 (Monroe, NY)

[stricklybojack]

.
Ad Copy:

For sale!
Avocado green gas range and hood. Circa 1965(?)
Unknown if it currently works. Gas is shut off. Asking $175, OBO.
Buyer must pick up on location.

 

[combo52]

Neat 60s Coloric Stove

Probably a year or more later than 1965 however these were fun ranges in their day, this one would have the huge Ultra-ray cast-iron broiler burner and it looks like the FL burner has a Burner-With-A-Brain control as well.

 

Still I would give up cooking as I know it today if I had to put up with the heat and odor and cleaning issues of having a range like this today in my house.

 

[delaneymeegan]

 

 

Standing pilot means excess heat and smell.  Not to mention a breeding ground for bugs. But they can be converted to electronic ignition.  

 

[combo52]

Converting A Gas Range To electric Ignation

It is NOT EASY and can cost thousands to do it correctly, it is easier to get an electric range.

 

[delaneymeegan]

 

 

 

 

I didn't say it would be easy.    I wonder, if one had something like a working 1998 GE gas stove with electronic ignition, for example, if one could  swap out the "plumbing" system bits?  The valves and handles, ignitors, and burners.   

[this post was last edited: 2/17/2016-20:20]

 

[combo52]

Converting A Gas Range To electric Ignation

No,,, you could not easily if at all use newer parts off a newer gas range on an older range like this Coloric range, they are very different, this is why there are no aftermarket kits for this purpose.

 

I am not kidding when I said it could cost many hundreds if not THOUSANDS to add electric ignition to an older gas range.