40" Frigidaire oven shelves.

[philr]

I recently got a 1959 Frigidaire 40" range that had a few things wrong. I got it in better shape now but I'm still missing oven shelves for it (I have just one for both ovens!).  Does anybody know where I could find one or two of these? The same part was used in 1958, 1960 and probably later too (in Canada, Frigidaire stopped making 40" ranges in 1960...).

 

The part number is 6561247

 

I really like these ranges. I wish it was Turquoise or Charcoal but it's not!



 

 

It has dark oven liners like many Canadian ranges. 



 

When I got it, the large oven and the timer didn't work and the Speed Heat and Heat Minder were converted to regular burners. 

 

Now, I fixed that!

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I also switched back to a Speed Heat burner and the correct switch for it and I updated the Heat Minder to the newer system that was introduced in 1960 (the 1959 system was so complex that Frigidaire serviceman were instructed to convert the 1959 and early 1960 system to this simpler system but mine wasn't done (someone had just cut the wires from the original sensor and replaced the switch with a regular infinite switch).

 

Here's the original sensor that I removed. The newer ones are smaller in diameter. 

[this post was last edited: 12/6/2013-14:34]

 

[sel8207]

info on heat minder

Am interested in if the earlier type of heat minder was the capillary tube type and the newer one is the electric sensor type? Any pics on the conversion? beautiful stove. les.

 

[philr]

I didn't do pics of the conversion but I took the parts out of a two Flairs that I parted out. The first hydraulic system was used in 1955-57 and was used with a 3 wire burner. The second system that was used in 1958 also used a 3 wire burner but it was electric. The system used in 1959 and early 1960 was similar to the 1958 system but it did use a two-wire burner. In 1960 the system was much simplified. In 1963 they went back to another hydraulic system that was also simplified and worked more like an oven thermostat.