A 40 year old microwave? Go on then...

[seamusuk]

Hey Guys
This was donated to our BHF today - subject to it passing it's PAT and RF emission tests it's coming home with us. It was donated by the original owner who brought it new in 1974 for approx £200!!
You US guys will recognise it as a Tappan I think ?
Seamus

 

[tomturbomatic]

Nice Find

Definitely Tappanish looks. Were these made in North America and floated over?

 

[seamusuk]

County of Origin?

Hi Tom
According to the rating plate it was indeed US built. It has just been tested and passed
Seamus
Quick query does the 30 min timer operate at a lower power ?

 

[turquoisedude]

I think it may be a Litton cooking system (which Tappan used also).  Moffat was the big name in microwaves here in Canada, but they were built by Litton (our family's second Microwave bought in 1976 or 1977 actually said Litton-Moffat on it).  

 

Nice looking cabinet!  The stainless strips on the door are very stylish. 

 

[tomturbomatic]

The 30 timer usually just offered more time for longer cooking without resetting it every 5 minutes.

 

[vacbear58]

Moffat Microwave

We had another version of this microwave which had adjustable power - at the top where the "Now Cooking" light is was a smaller knob which rotated through 180 degrees from "9 o'clock" to "3 o'clock" - whether infinitely adjustable or click through I do not know. I would have thought there would have been a equivalent Tappen model in the USA

Al

 

[servisslimline]

@ vacbear58

my papa has the same model you had, his is still working!
phil

 

[ricky5050]

Ooh

I want one ! Lovely well done

Richard

 

[danemodsandy]

The One at the Top:

Is the British twin of the American Tappan I owned as my first microwave.

Nice machine when new, but the interior wasn't long for this world. There were problems with the paintlike coating inside within a couple of years.

I decided it was a fluke, and got another Tappan. Same problem - though I learned to touch it up and got fifteen years out of the thing. I've since had other MW ovens with painted interiors, and never had a moment's trouble.

Dunno what that was about.

 

[seamusuk]

Adjustable power...

Hey Al- see the pic below your post I think the lack of power control may stop this from being a daily driver...

 

[seamusuk]

A difference on the door....

I just noticed- ours has Microwave Oven on the door and the vari power model has Microwave Cooker....
Seamus

 

[arbilab]

Mine is only 30yo. JCPenney, made by GE with Toshiba parts. All digital-touch and stuff. If it was a TV it would be 21".

Unlike models half its age, the fluorescent display is still bright. At 600W, just over half the power of 'modren' (sic) ones but even so some modren 45-second instructions still take 45 seconds.

I think it originally cost something like $350. Just over a dollar a year. Now THAT'S value.