Frigidaire Flair Electric Range 1961? 1962?

[artistathand]

Frigidaire Flair Electric Range Short Necked Susie

Hello,
Long time no speak!
I guess signing in would have been a good thing. Duh

I hope all is well with everyone out there.
I'm thinking that staying home and using our wonderful old ovens is probably being done now more than ever.

A short recap of me if my feed doesn't show up...

I have the Frigidaire Deluxe Electric Range with 2 ovens with a pull out tray. I shared info and you all helped with the dilemma I had with one burnt out burner.

With all that solved, I have purchased another single wall oven that appears to be the same as my stove in the kitchen.

It a summer kitchen/art oven that has been installed in my garage.

I have used it 3 times for food cooking and it is running about 28 degrees hotter than it should.

My question is - not surprisingly - is there a way these can be adjusted?

I haven't explored enough to see if there is a senser that needs replacing. Each time I used the oven, I needed 400 degrees. Each time it seemed to get hotter by around 28 degrees.

I can remember and calibrate in my head but I wondered if there was an adjustment. I can easily get into this one for service.

I couldn't read that serial number in this shot. I don't think it will help but it is 40007013

Thank you all
Susie

 

[combo52]

Temperature Adjustment On A FD Oven

These can be adjusted, review the instructions in a service manual for 60s FD ovens.

If it is only off 28 degrees I would not brother trying adjusting the thermostat, often the tiny adjustment screw in the thermostats shaft is sized after 50+ years and you may easily either ruin the TS or make it worse, just set it a little lower than needed.

John L.

 

[mattl]

I tuned up the oven temps in my '59 Custom Imperial range with out issue. the set screw moved easily in my case,ymmv...

 

[panthera]

All well here, suggestion

Generally speaking, these ovens are well known for their inaccurate thermostats. I've read that swings of 25F were normal for that time - and 28F, if it's consistent, is close enough.

I'd leave it be and not risk a greater problem, personally.

One of our Custom Imperials runs about that much hot in the right oven - I just treat it as if it were a convection oven and things turn out just fine (temp lowered by about that much). The other one and both left ovens run fairly close to the desired temp, but swing a lot between cycles.

If you do decide to adjust, you might want to be super careful with that screw. If it doesn't respond easily (and it takes very little movement to make a big adjustment), I'd leave it be. I would not use my usual threadlocker treatment on it.

 

We've been using one of the Custom Imperials a lot this summer and my husband is finally getting used to the 'never run on high' settings for the burners after much burned everything. Having grown up with one, I have had the opposite problem adjusting to GE Calrods - tend to start at too low of a heat.

 

And, to repeat myself yet again - never, ever believe what anyone tells you about a certain 'date'/model meaning absolutely anything with a General Motors Frigidaire appliance. GM not only made flying, undocumented changes, they also used older parts as well as newer, undocumented parts in their appliances all the time. 

 

We have a 1967 Custom Deluxe refrigerator (pretty close to bottom of the line) which runs perfectly and has a far more elaborate automatic defrosting system than the manual claims it has. Either replaced sometime in the past or GM just happened to have the parts on hand and threw them in. We have a 1957/58/59 Thumper which has parts that any expert here will tell you can not and were not ever used by the factory in those years...and yet, there they are and no tool marks to show they were changed out.

 

What you have before you in one of these wonderful appliances is reality, not what somebody 'knows' was the right part for a given model/year.

 

 

[artistathand]

Frigidaire Flair Electric Range Short Necked Susie

Thank you all!

And good to communicate again.

I appreciate the time and information.

I was thinking of just leaving it alone too but my husband is a spot on guy.

I am going to convince him to leave it for now, though my curiosity is piqued on how it is done.
I may secretly look at a manual...hehehehe but still leave things if they stay at the 28 degrees.

I want more time to judge if it is consistent at the 28 degrees that I think it is even at a lower temp, though if it was inconsistent I wouldn't think the range of the heating would make a difference.

I love that these older appliances are being appreciated. I am guessing they all need to be treated like an old friend, accepting each others quirks.

Thank you again,
Short Necked Susie