Anyone is familiar with these GE range burners?

[philr]

A friend of mine has these burners on a GE range that's about 20 years old. He wants to remove the part below the drip trays but he hasn't figured how to do it. The burners swivel a bit like Frigidaire Radiantubes.

Here are some pics.

 

[turquoisedude]

Geez, Phil, they look like some of the really early electric range elements... I'm thinking of one of François' 1920s Moffats! I can't say I've ever seen this style on more recent ranges, though.

 

[pulltostart]

Never seen any burners like this.  Would the burner not pull straight out?  Not hard to think the element becomes flat once it disappears, assuring an ability to rotate, but also allowing the entire unit to be removed.  The top of the range does not look like it is hinged, so one has to assume the sub top can be accessed.

 

lawrence

 

[brisnat81]

We had similar burners here, you basically have to lift the hob and remove the entire burner assembly, If they are the same as what we had here, its one assembly and you replace it as such. The benefit is that its easy to clean and nothing can spill into the stove.

 

[philr]

My friend wanted to remove the part below the drip trays (which looks similar to regular drip bowls). I guess he'll have to clean it in place. The drip trays don't cover the part where the burner is hinged and that got dirty.

And the burners don't pull straight out, they just lift like I did on the pictures. When you pull on them, they move out of the round hole about 1/4" but you can feel they are held to the dark porcelain part with a spring.

The top has screws that retain it at the front it doesn't seem to lift easily to access underneath. I guess if you need to replace parts, you have to look underneath but my friend just wanted to remove the parts to clean it.

A few months ago, I replaced the bake element in this oven and I offered him a 1971 Frigidaire with an Electri-Clean oven and easy to remove drip bowls instead but he didn't want it as it looked too old with the wood grain trim on the control panel and no glass in the oven door![this post was last edited: 11/24/2015-21:45]

 

[norgeway]

TK made

A unit similar to that, it was used on late 50s and early 60s Philcos.

 

[jamiel]

Those were a Canadian type of element that were essentially never seen here in the states in the modern era (Frigidaire Radiantube excepted). Here you either had the plug in/plug out or the hinged type of coils

 

[jamiel]

Those were a Canadian type of element that were essentially never seen here in the states in the modern era (Frigidaire Radiantube excepted). Here you either had the plug in/plug out or the hinged type of coils

 

[philr]

I thought it was an odd sight on a range that was made in 1996. I don't recall seeing others like these on a newer range and I scanned the ads for GE ranges from this period and I haven't seen others with these burners. 

 

[bajaespuma]

They're very beautiful, mais, y les jamais vu.

 

[philr]

Me neither, I have to admit I don't usually pay much attention to the mid-1990s stuff, maybe I'll start to as this is getting older now! I can't believe we're already so far from 1996!

This is a non-self-cleaning fairly basic model, which is affected by the common touch pad degradation and plastic yellowing that that affects most ranges from this period (other brands had rubber buttons that would degrade until they just fall but at least, these can be replaced).

 

I'm wondering if these burners were also available on self-cleaning models?