Caloric Range RSP-366-U3

[naturalnick]

Hi all. Hope everyone's holidays are going well.

This is my first time posting on the new site. I managed to find my previous post on my Caloric range and added to that post with a new question.
When I went back to the home page and then to the forum page, I didn't see my post. So I'm guessing it was archived. If not, please pardon the double post.

In my previous post, I was asking about an oven floor for my 1976 Caloric Range RSP-366-U3.
I found an oven floor on eBay, however the range has been in storage for a while and the oven floor shows some surface rust.
The rust is not all the way through the floor so I'm wondering if there is a paint/coating safe for the interior of the oven.
What I'm finding in web searches, is not reassuring.
While there are 1200F rated coatings, I'm seeing them mostly recommended for the exterior of wood burning stoves or exterior of BBQ grills.
Or maybe just touch up paint? Or just leaving it as is and giving it a cleaning to remove any loose rust?

Here's photos of the one I've found (sent to me by the seller) for reference, the photos I've posted previously show cracking and deformation of my flame spreader. This one is in much better shape.

Many thanks for your assistance now and in the past!
Dominick aka Natural Nick

The first photo shows the overall oven floor before cleaning.
The second one shows a close up of the problem area after cleaning by the seller.
The third shows the flame spreader in much better shape than mine.

 

[DADoES]

A link to your original post on 3/21/2019, with your post/reply to it earlier today: Caloric Range RSP-366-U3

 

[combo52]

Hi Nick, if the one on eBay is cheap, go ahead and buy it and just use it as is until a better one is found.

I didn’t know whether you’ve gotten rid of the stove since you never came by for the burners unfortunately about three months ago, I recycled a caloric high low gas range that was an actually excellent condition, I held onto it for a while because it had come out of Ruth Bader Ginsburg‘s apartment in the water gate and I had sold it to a customer of ours about 25 years ago that never really used it much and then we updated all the appliances earlier this year and the range sat there for a long time.

I was trying to figure out if I could prove that it was in her apartment. I figured somebody might want it because of the notoriety of who owned it at one time, but we finally just decided it needed to go to the recycler.

I will try to keep an eye out for one as you seem to be keeping this range. I do see caloric ranges on the scrap pile with some frequency. It was a very popular range at one time and most of them that are still around weren’t used much, which is why they have lasted.

John L

 

[combo52]

This is a caloric range I have saved for our museum. It’s the very first 30 inch self cleaning caloric from around 1969 or 70 it still has constant burning pilots, that’s the only thing bad about it because it caused the cooktop to rust under the top otherwise the stove isn’t beautiful condition.

The oven floor in this one is the same size, but the burner goes from left to right instead of front to back so the flames spreader would not be right for your oven, this range even has a cast-iron oven burner and a cast-iron infrared oven burner. It was quite overbuilt.

John L

 

[naturalnick]

Hi Nick, if the one on eBay is cheap, go ahead and buy it and just use it as is until a better one is found.

I didn’t know whether you’ve gotten rid of the stove since you never came by for the burners unfortunately about three months ago, I recycled a caloric high low gas range that was an actually excellent condition, I held onto it for a while because it had come out of Ruth Bader Ginsburg‘s apartment in the water gate and I had sold it to a customer of ours about 25 years ago that never really used it much and then we updated all the appliances earlier this year and the range sat there for a long time.

I was trying to figure out if I could prove that it was in her apartment. I figured somebody might want it because of the notoriety of who owned it at one time, but we finally just decided it needed to go to the recycler.

I will try to keep an eye out for one as you seem to be keeping this range. I do see caloric ranges on the scrap pile with some frequency. It was a very popular range at one time and most of them that are still around weren’t used much, which is why they have lasted.

John L

Hi John!

Thanks. I emailed you my contact info in March and we exchanged some texts. I stopped by the shop on several Saturdays and no one was around.
I sent texts and called but kept missing you. I kinda gave up in late May. Will try again. Let me know if you still have my contact info?

Any paint coatings safe for the range interior to cover the rust?

My range works well and I'm going to keep it as long as possible/feasible.

Cool story about RBG's range.

Thanks,
Dominick

 

[naturalnick]

Hi Nick, if the one on eBay is cheap, go ahead and buy it and just use it as is until a better one is found.

I didn’t know whether you’ve gotten rid of the stove since you never came by for the burners unfortunately about three months ago, I recycled a caloric high low gas range that was an actually excellent condition, I held onto it for a while because it had come out of Ruth Bader Ginsburg‘s apartment in the water gate and I had sold it to a customer of ours about 25 years ago that never really used it much and then we updated all the appliances earlier this year and the range sat there for a long time.

I was trying to figure out if I could prove that it was in her apartment. I figured somebody might want it because of the notoriety of who owned it at one time, but we finally just decided it needed to go to the recycler.

I will try to keep an eye out for one as you seem to be keeping this range. I do see caloric ranges on the scrap pile with some frequency. It was a very popular range at one time and most of them that are still around weren’t used much, which is why they have lasted.

John L

This is a caloric range I have saved for our museum. It’s the very first 30 inch self cleaning caloric from around 1969 or 70 it still has constant burning pilots, that’s the only thing bad about it because it caused the cooktop to rust under the top otherwise the stove isn’t beautiful condition.

The oven floor in this one is the same size, but the burner goes from left to right instead of front to back so the flames spreader would not be right for your oven, this range even has a cast-iron oven burner and a cast-iron infrared oven burner. It was quite overbuilt.

John L

John. My oven burner is oriented left to right. The igniter is on the right and the burner extends to the left.