DUMB!!!! Oh YEAH!!!

[norgeway]

Get this ad....How did a early 50s Westinghouse get to be a late 60s Frigidaire!!>?????

 

[norgeway]

It amazes me..

If you are totally ignorant about something...ASK SOMEONE, dont just make up stuff!!LOL

 

[norgeway]

WELL...

Maybe IM the dumb one...About computers anyhow...Here is the link.

http://southcoast.craigslist.org/app/3651687007.html

 

[rp2813]

Where's the badge on that thing?  Being familiar with Westinghouse, I know that's what it is, but is the badge missing?

 

They clearly never used that stove.  The oven racks are in backwards.

 

When did Westinghouse start covering the baking elements?

 

[kevin313]

The "Westinghouse" name is just under the clock, printed on the bottom of the glass clock cover.

The stove is remarkably clean and looks to be in wonderful shape. Too bad it's not close by! Hope it finds a good home!

 

[firedome]

that is a beauty

indeed! Regardless of what they think it is!

 

[oldskool]

And....

the Dishwasher is a GE, one that I think is sought after by some members. Hope somebody gets both - the stove is beautiful and appears to have been well cared for even if they can't figure out who made it, poor souls.

 

[jeb]

westinghouse stove

This is the same model that I am using now. I got mine at an estate sale from the basement and it was NEVER used! I paid $50.00 for it and they were glad to "get ride of that big old stove". It had been there since the house was built. When I got it home and plugged in the only thing not working is the clock. Jeb

 

[kenmore58]

It's from New Bedford. Enough said. Definitely explains the confusion.

 

[combo52]

Early 50s Westinghouse 40" Range

This is the exact stove that my Grandmother had, I spent many hours helping her can vegetables on that stove when I would spend a week with her in the summers. I now have the similar double oven version of this stove at the museum which is not in this good a condition. If I were closer I would gladly pay the asking price to have this stove but I don't have the time right now to get it. If someone in the area wants to rescue it I would gladly pay them for their efforts, John.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Probably a little WD 40 sprayed into the clock motor would get it moving again. The lubricant dries out in the motors.

Ralph, As to when WH started covering bake elements, open coil bake elements always had a cover because the need to shield the items being baked from the intense radiant energy of up to 3000 watts of heat. The open coil bake elements took up far more space in the bottom of the oven and, unlike sealed rod elements, they were not just around the perimeter of the bottom of the oven. If the open coil bake elments did not have the evenizers over them, they would have broiled food from underneath instead of baking it.

 

[rp2813]

Thanks Tom.  So even though I don't remember it, up until sometime in 60's or 70's, my mom's '49 Commodore had a cover over its open coil bake element, the cover was integrated with the element assembly, so when that element burned out or broke, the cover went with it and the replacement sealed rod didn't require a cover.   Definitely a better system with the sealed rod than the open coils.

 

As far as I know, the original open coil broil element in the Commodore is still functioning.  Greg hasn't advised me of its failure.  I presume that element would be replaced by a sealed rod if necessary, correct?