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Caloric monster
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repairguy
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And in Fort Worth…
Self-cleaning lower oven.
36 inch Caloric gas self cleaning high oven range
Caloric was one of the very few companies that made a 36 inch high oven gas range, when these started to become popular in the 60s, the best gas ranges were all 36 inches wide and electric ranges were generally 40 inches wide so caloric made a product that could replace an older gas range And give you the convenience of an added second upper oven.
This used the same upper oven that they used on their 30 inch ranges so it wasn’t any bigger and the bottom oven was also the same as 30 inch oven with a side storage compartment.
The bad thing about this range is I don’t think it’s electric ignition yet so you would have five additional pilot lights burning in your kitchen all the time good for about $15 of gas a month to say nothing of the heat and the smell that the pilot flames make because they burn very inefficiently with a yellow tip.
Melvin, you should get this, this would go great in your kitchen. You might need to do a little remodeling, however.
John
Caloric was one of the very few companies that made a 36 inch high oven gas range, when these started to become popular in the 60s, the best gas ranges were all 36 inches wide and electric ranges were generally 40 inches wide so caloric made a product that could replace an older gas range And give you the convenience of an added second upper oven.
This used the same upper oven that they used on their 30 inch ranges so it wasn’t any bigger and the bottom oven was also the same as 30 inch oven with a side storage compartment.
The bad thing about this range is I don’t think it’s electric ignition yet so you would have five additional pilot lights burning in your kitchen all the time good for about $15 of gas a month to say nothing of the heat and the smell that the pilot flames make because they burn very inefficiently with a yellow tip.
Melvin, you should get this, this would go great in your kitchen. You might need to do a little remodeling, however.
John
Just a short hop, Melvin....
repairguy
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I don’t need any tempting. I’ve been overrun with wayward appliances for some time now.
The Ultra=Ray broiler was the best I have seen. Friends had a gas similar model in coppertone but unfortunate;y was destroyed in a house fire, not caused by the stove.
They looked kind of spiffy in the photos
I had a brochure of this generation of Caloric stoves when I first started to research appliances in 1970. My Mother had a friend who bought one of these for her NYC apartment and was not happy with it.
What I didn't know back then was that Caloric had already been moved from PA where generations of Mennonites had worked at their factories and had put their energy and values into producing exceptional gas stoves. By this point the heavy cast-iron Caloric burners had been replaced by cheap aluminum POS burners.
This was the beginning of the end of another great American brand.
I had a brochure of this generation of Caloric stoves when I first started to research appliances in 1970. My Mother had a friend who bought one of these for her NYC apartment and was not happy with it.
What I didn't know back then was that Caloric had already been moved from PA where generations of Mennonites had worked at their factories and had put their energy and values into producing exceptional gas stoves. By this point the heavy cast-iron Caloric burners had been replaced by cheap aluminum POS burners.
This was the beginning of the end of another great American brand.
Caloric Ranges
Continued to be built in Topton, Pennsylvania into the 1980s, they switched to aluminum burner heads back in the mid 1960s, all gas range is experienced more problems than the better electric ranges. That’s just the nature of the beast.
John
Continued to be built in Topton, Pennsylvania into the 1980s, they switched to aluminum burner heads back in the mid 1960s, all gas range is experienced more problems than the better electric ranges. That’s just the nature of the beast.
John
Maybe there's a way to put in pilotless lighting for those burners and oven which would replace six or seven pilot lights? (four burners, both ovens' baking and lower oven's broiler?)
I only saw one Coppertone one which was discarded at a curbside, as far as me seeing in-person goes... Maybe a magazine ad for a 6-burner harvest gold comes to mind, as well as partial shot of a white one which I saw next to a Caloric dishwasher in a magazine ad for...
Otherwise what ever others were most-likely 30"ones, and that would be an avocado one at a flea market...
Look like aside from the "good only when it was new" it must be, I wish I could get and have the know-how to troubleshoot here and there to actually use...
-- Dave
I only saw one Coppertone one which was discarded at a curbside, as far as me seeing in-person goes... Maybe a magazine ad for a 6-burner harvest gold comes to mind, as well as partial shot of a white one which I saw next to a Caloric dishwasher in a magazine ad for...
Otherwise what ever others were most-likely 30"ones, and that would be an avocado one at a flea market...
Look like aside from the "good only when it was new" it must be, I wish I could get and have the know-how to troubleshoot here and there to actually use...
-- Dave
