Amana Radarange Touchmatic II in Cali

[austinado16]

I've got a Touchmatic II for sale if anyone's interested.

http://slo.craigslist.org/hsh/1546613577.html

 

[swestoyz]

Todd, very nice RR there. Appears to be an early example of a 10 series. Boarder, early buttons, and the early plastic grill for the stirrer.

You may not get many bites with that price, however, since they still can be found in minty shape at the local thrifts for 15 to 30 bucks.

Ben

 

[bugsyjones]

I'd buy it.

If I had the money.



~Tim

 

[austinado16]

Good call on both accounts Ben. Thought I'd give it a whirl though since not everyone can stumble across them in the thrifts. Scored the temp probe for it last night on ebay, so that makes it nicely complete.

We've got a Radarange with the 2 round dials adorning our vintage kitchen. My wife's parents bought used it for her when she went away to college back in the late 80's. Can't remember the model, but it's much heavier than the Touchmatics and I think it has a 1980 date on the back. We still use it daily.

I had a much earlier 2 dial version, an RR-1?-something, about a year ago and sold it to a guy in NY who put it in a movie and then kept it for his personal use.

 

[douglasdc6]

What year is this one ? Could it be a 1978 or 1979.

We got ours in 1982 the salesmen obviously lied to us because he told us the radar ranges went digital in 1982. - Didn`t know they had a digital in the late 70`s till now.

 

[swestoyz]

More thank likely it is a 1977 or early 1978 based on the observations I made in my first post. The first digital RR was the RR-6 from 1975.

Would love to see the photo of your daily driver. Guessing it is an RR-4 or slight variant of the 4 series. Great looking ranges!

Ben

 

[austinado16]

Yes, this one is a '78.

Here's our 1980/81...

The RR-1something that I had was similar, except the 3 buttons at the bottom were a red one for stop, and a green one for start, and it was a more simplistic face/trim around the 2 big timer and power knobs. I would have kept it except "ours" has a lot of personal history and has earned the right to remain. (geez, am I talking about a piece of machinery or a family member?)

 

[austinado16]

Here's what the early one I had looked like:

 

[dj-gabriele]

Question for the informed!

Does that run on 220V instead of 110?
It says that the oven is 1500W of power, I guess that, including magnetron losses, the electricity consumption would be around 2200Wh, too much for a regular American outlet, or am I mistaken?

 

[tolivac]

If the microwave oven drew 2200W it could be run on a 20A 120V outlet-the plug on the oven would have to be the NEMA 20A -it would fit only a 20A 120V outlet.It could not be plugged into a 15A outlet becuase the "hot" blade is horizontal.A 15A plug will fit a 20A outlet.Most US home kitchens have two or even more 20A 120V outlets.However-magnetrons in newer ovens have more effeincy than those used in older ones.Most ovens do not have 1500W of power unless its a commercial unit.Most household ones are no more than 1000W.

 

[austinado16]

No, these all ran on 110v. Remember, we're talking about the inventor of the microwave here. If they wanted one in everyone's home, they couldn't have made them require a "special" power supply or power connection.