Find Number 2

[cadman]

Tahdah!

How about a GE double built-in wall oven- This would have been a tremendous find if the "repairman" hadn't cut every wire to the panel and removed random interior screws and vents. Looks like all the parts are here (including the bag of misc fasteners). The cooktop has a heat-minder burner and apparently the whole thing drops into the counter and mates with a multi-pin connector (which we don't have). Nor the controls....

Still, the oven would make a good winter project : )

 

[cadman]

And the flawless paint and chrome... (plus Rotisserie motor and Meat Probe connector)

 

[coldspot66]

That cooktops' controls were most likely mounted at eye level on a GE range hood.Some were also built into the wall. I have only seen one of these in a house built in the early 60's. That wall oven seems to be early 60's as well. Very clever idea of putting the controls at eye level away from the cooking surface, though I think this setup was geared to the contractor building a new house, where the wires must run through the wall and up into the range hood!

 

[bethann]

Cory strikes again!

I've seen the controls for the drop in on ebay before. That meat probe thing is cool as hell! Why don't they make them anymore? What a great feature! I can't wait to try mine out. You surely didn't find that in the scrapyard did ya? It looks way to good.

 

[swestoyz]

Well Bethann,

A few more days, and it would have been at the scrapping yard! When we found this one, we searched high and low for the control panel for the cooktop to no avail. It was also completely in pieces - a puzzle that only Cory and I would know how great the finished product could be, while on a waiting list for the hauling to the dump!

We are keeping our eyes open for your prized washers - but I hope you don't mind them being Maytag's! =)

Ben

 

[cadman]

Dare we mention the Dryer we passed up at the tag sale??

 

[scott55405]

You guys, this is a great oven and cooktop! Loved the microwave in the other post too. I wonder why someone would do something so silly to that oven, but I know you'll be able to fix it up in time. You're bound to come across the control panel for the cooktop too.

Bethann, you have to look carefully, but you can still get the meat probes on a few new ranges. Maybe Ben and Cory will find you a nice Maytag set! Something with a lighted control panel perhaps...

Cory, since you did dare bring it up, what um...dryer *did* you see at the tag sale? ;-)

 

[westie2]

GE builtin's

Had a 1969 set like these in a home only the cook top was stainless and the hood and ovens were avacoda. Had the meat probe and the rotersire. The hood had the lighted pushbuttons and two huge fans to pull the heat/smoke up would almost suck your hair off. Was one of the best cook tops and ovens we ever had.

 

[chachp]

Cook Top separate controls

I am looking for a new house. Walked into one last week that had this cooktop and oven. They were stainless. The cooktop controls were mounted on the wall at eye level just as you've described. Too bad I couldn't have lived with the rest of the house. The dishwasher had been replaced with a newer Maytag. I was hoping to walk into the garage and see the old dishwasher sitting there, but no luck!

 

[toggleswitch]

where's the rotisserie

KEWL!

Besides a meat-probe I'd love to see the return of the rotisserie. Does this have one?

I think what is being referred to here is the fixed heats GE had (H1- 2- 3- med - sim- low -warm- off) that were accomplished with two parallel windings in one coil that had one end joined. (There were three leads off of one coil.) The control would then apply 110 and/or 220v and would connect the coils in series and parallel.

"Warm" was probably the two coils in series being fed 110v (therefore each got 55v.) "Hi" was probably each winding of the coil getting 220v (they were connected in parallel)

I have never used this but they say it was great for flimsy bottomed pots of the era. (The coils did not cycle to maintain heat, so in that respect it was more like gas) Further it is said that once you got used to a setting it was conevenient in that you could set something and walk away and know it was just right.

If anyone watches the show "Six Feet Under" there seem to be two mistakes in the kitchen:

1) A GE range-hood with the contol buttons for the subject electric cookop is shown over a gas range.

2) The dishwasher was a KA, then became a Caloric. Both, of course, in the same avocado color shared by all appliances.

BTW, anybody know what was the cable was like that linked the cooktop to the range-hood? Was it comparable to a computer ribbon-cable with a connector? And how many conductors does it have? Three per coil and two for the indicator light and aground?

Congrats, again!!

 

[toggleswitch]

Rotisserie

OOOPSS there it is on the thermostat .. a "Rotisserie" setting

what a find!!!

 

[swestoyz]

Well Cory,

You now know how hard it is to pass up a Frigidaire!

Ben

 

[bethann]

Ben!

That's not very funny! You've got to be kidding! You guy's would have been on that like flies on cow poop!

 

[westie2]

GE range hood pushbuttons

The cable that came out of the wall to the cooktop we had was a once in diameter felx conduit. It had a huge plus that was plugged into the right side of the cook top and was held in place by 2 screws like on the back of a computer. Never had a problem with it. For the ovens both were self clean and had to really pullup hard on the inner screen tabs to let it clean. Would only allow oven at at time to be cleaned and took about 4 hours before the interlock would release. We did get used to what button to start with on cooking then shift to the lower level. We always have had gardens and have pressure canned so started out on high then when the pressure got to the right oint pressed the 2 and set timmer for whatever time was called for. Always ran the two big burners for 2 canners. Could process 14 quarts at a time that way.

 

[gansky1]

More nice finds - the cooktop controls shouldn't be hard to find, odds are a builder used them quite a bit in a number of homes so you'll find them eventually. Nice RR too, just like the one I just built into my kitchen cabinet - nothing better than a Radarange!

Sooooooo, what was the dryer you passed up?

 

[veg-o-matic]

Dang!

Cory, you and Ben need to send some of your "appliance karma" back east. Either that, or Bethann needs to attach herself to you long enough to find her Frigidaires.
At the rate you're going, it'll probably take about 10 minutes!
Actually, I'm kind of surprised you picked up this oven and cooktop--they're not turquoise! Guess you'll have more than one kitchen in your Dream House. How many, you think?
Congrats, and let us know what the dryer was--but be gentle!
veg

 

[swestoyz]

Well Bethann,

It was coppertone =)

Ben

 

[bethann]

Whew! OK, your off the hook! But, maybe not off of someone elses!

 

[cadman]

It was tempting.... Mid '60s Frigidaire, Coppertone, flawless enamel, working condition in the basement of the house...for 5 bux. If there wasn't an oven in the car it might have been a different story.

Cory