Amana gas range

[fan-of-fans]

Looks to have a fluorescent light and guessing a top infra red broiler. I believe this came also with more traditional styled black grates, branded Caloric with Ultra Ray Broiler.

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[combo52]

90s a Amana gas range

These were caloric ranges, they were pretty decent ranges. It did have the infrared burner that caloric made famous under the ultra ray name, the weak points of this range with the little ceramic igniters for the top burners when they would crack, they no longer worked and are impossible to replace now The ERC oven control is also a weak area, which is no longer available. They can sometimes be rebuilt if you wanna send them out.

The oven is also tended to bake unevenly. Usually they were hotter in the back or on one side, but few gas ranges. Bake that evenly anyway.

John L

 

[wayupnorth]

I have a similar looking Whirlpool gas range from 1995. Mine does have the lower broiler and top and oven has the click-click igniters and does not have any light. The installation instructions with a generic stove drawing said "Installation instructions for your AMANA range", not Whirlpool. I have been very happy with this stove for almost 30 years now.

 

[combo52]

Hi Tim, what's the model number of your whirlpool gas range

Whirlpool had quite a few different designs and they did not build the range you have it's most likely a Tappan, but it also could've come from the Sunray division of caloric or even a Hardwick range were sold in that time.

Whirlpool started building their own 30 inch gas ranges in 1999 in Tulsa Oklahoma.

John

 

[wayupnorth]

John, my Whirlpool stove model number is SF330PEWG3. The tag does say Whirlpool Corp. Benton Harbor Michigan.

 

[combo52]

Basic 1995 whirlpool gas range

Hi Tim, your range appears to be a model that came from the Sunray division that caloric owned when it was made.

These were good basic ranges. Your range would have spark ignition for the top burners and hot surface igniter for the oven. If you hear a clicking noise when the oven is first turned on something is wrong with the model number you gave me because it would be a Tappan or roper built range.

The range at the top of this post Was a real caloric range that came out of Pennsylvania, these Sunray ranges came out of a plant down in North Carolina or South Carolina can't remember for sure went by the plant once.

Everything whirlpool sold at this time. Of course list Benton Harbour, Michigan because that's their home office probably still is.

 

[wayupnorth]

No, the oven does have the spark igniter that lights the pilot, heats up the thermocouple and about 60 seconds the burner lights, basically like ones that had a standing pilot but when the oven control is turned off it shuts off all gas to the oven. I had to buy this stove because of the old big heavy Dixie that was here had a manual light oven and those are outlawed in this state now. That Dixie had those center simmer burners that were great,

 

[fan-of-fans]

At one point the Sunray Stove Company was located in Delaware, OH. Some Caloric ranges during the 1990s have a location of Florence, SC on the info tag.

 

[combo52]

1995 whirlpool gas range

That's interesting Tim. I can't find the exact model number. There's no G3 at the end in the whirlpool system. The closest thing is an N3 and that's a caloric belt range with a hot surface igniter.

A picture of the model and serial number or a picture of the range might be necessary to positively identify it, but if it has the spark ignition system for the oven, it's either a Hardwick built range or possibly a roper built range. Both were much better than the Sunray built ranges which would make sense the Sunray ranges are pretty cheap.

The nice thing about the spark ignition ovens you probably already know this is that you can turn the oven on and light it with a match and you can use the stove all day long with no electricity, you can't do this with a hot surface igniter, the oven is out of service without 120 V.

John L

 

[wayupnorth]

Yes, thats right John. During the big ice storm of 1998, I was the only one in this neighborhood with a gas stove. We lost power for 12 days and all my neighbors were bringing food from their freezers over to bake. That igniter system was a godsend to be able to use the oven during that extended outage.