sel8207
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Never seen this type before. Very nice looking turquoise and looks like a lighted console too. les
frigidair range from 60s.
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He's a little off with his decade, but it's a nice looking range for a good price. The K series was model year 1966. That year the custom deluxe was the second highest featured 30" range. It had all of the features of the Custom Imperial EXCEPT the Electri-Clean oven. (And the early Electri-Clean ovens did NOT have an oven window)
retromania
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It is a nice looking range!
philr
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That's a nice-looking range. It has about the same features as my Canadian Custom Imperial range from the same year. Still the US-made Custom Deluxe got more than our fanciest ranges as they had the Tender-Matic feature, more chrome and the dials still displayed behind the control panel glass rather than on the knobs.
Well boo-hoo for the poor Canadians. Thanks for sharing.
philr
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One thing we got standard on our 1966 Custom Imperial ranges was the rotisserie which was an option on the Custom Deluxe and Custom Imperial ranges in the US... That didn't compensate for the lack of fun features like the Speed Heat, Tender-Matic or Electri-Clean!
Our free-standing ranges also lacked the broiler-grill control and had thermostatic broil instead. They had a very simple kind of "Meal Minder" which didn't involve motors to turn down the thermostat like the US ranges had but a simple spring-loaded mechanism which turned the temperature down after the cooking period. This feature was offered in 1965-66 only. The 1967 TOL models were downgraded to "Imperial" and got a regular timer and a separate thermostat and bake/broil control like the other Canadian Frigidaire free-standing ranges already had.
You can see the mechanism that releases the spring in the thermostat on the left above the blue wire connector.
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Our free-standing ranges also lacked the broiler-grill control and had thermostatic broil instead. They had a very simple kind of "Meal Minder" which didn't involve motors to turn down the thermostat like the US ranges had but a simple spring-loaded mechanism which turned the temperature down after the cooking period. This feature was offered in 1965-66 only. The 1967 TOL models were downgraded to "Imperial" and got a regular timer and a separate thermostat and bake/broil control like the other Canadian Frigidaire free-standing ranges already had.
You can see the mechanism that releases the spring in the thermostat on the left above the blue wire connector.
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Beautiful!
The first range looks exactly like the ones that were in the home ec room of the local high school when it opened in '66. There were four 30" models, one each in Turquoise, White, Yellow and Shaded Coppertone. There were also several 40" models in various colors.
philr
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Colors
None were in the new-for-1966 Honey Beige that replaced Pink? Our home ec. room didn't have such nice things... In fact, it was in a tiny room accessible only from the cafeteria's kitchen! The whole group had to follow the teacher in the cafeteria's kitchen and not disturb the employees working there... Then I don't even remember if we had any kitchen appliances there. We did have a few ironing boards and sewing machines!
None were in the new-for-1966 Honey Beige that replaced Pink? Our home ec. room didn't have such nice things... In fact, it was in a tiny room accessible only from the cafeteria's kitchen! The whole group had to follow the teacher in the cafeteria's kitchen and not disturb the employees working there... Then I don't even remember if we had any kitchen appliances there. We did have a few ironing boards and sewing machines!
Hey Phil,
Don't remember anything there being in Honey Beige. The ranges and refrigerators were provided by the local Frigidaire dealer, and the laundry equipment, dishwashers and built-in wall oven and cooktops by the GE dealer. All the GE stuff was either White or Coppertone. From what I remember, the dealers provided them free of charge, and changed them out every so often (except the built-ins).
As for Honey Beige, I don't remember ever seeing it on display at the local dealer, but I did see it at Swallen's on Wooster Pk., which was a large store and carried the newest models.
Don't remember anything there being in Honey Beige. The ranges and refrigerators were provided by the local Frigidaire dealer, and the laundry equipment, dishwashers and built-in wall oven and cooktops by the GE dealer. All the GE stuff was either White or Coppertone. From what I remember, the dealers provided them free of charge, and changed them out every so often (except the built-ins).
As for Honey Beige, I don't remember ever seeing it on display at the local dealer, but I did see it at Swallen's on Wooster Pk., which was a large store and carried the newest models.
toploader55
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Looks almost like Mine...
But in White.
I have the Pull and Clean Oven and I LOVE IT !!!!!!!
Love the Radiant Tubes and it bakes like a Dream Come True.
But in White.
I have the Pull and Clean Oven and I LOVE IT !!!!!!!
Love the Radiant Tubes and it bakes like a Dream Come True.
philr
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Eddie, yours is one year older. It's one of the first models to have the "Tender-Matic" feature. Have you ever tried it?
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