Gifts with Purchase

[dalangdon]

So Many Questions! ;-)

Kevin, You're not confused - it's just confusing. I bought the wallmount refrigerator for the new house, which has the knotty pine panelled family room in the basement. However, we couldn't get it down the basement stairs, so we have to wait until we have time to pop out the family room window and slide it in that way. That also thwarts my plan to make the basement bedroom my own personal appliance museum, but that's life.

Tom, My O'Keefe & Merritt is my baby. It goes where I go! ;-) We had a little apartment sized Dixie but we actually ended up selling it to the mover because he needed a small stove for his ski cabin, and it would be a while before we had a stove outlet in the basement anyway.

As far as the white Frigidaire goes, It's a nice stove, but it has the preset burner controls, which I am somewhat ambivalent about. Also, I like having windows on the oven doors. (btw, do you happen to know if the burner knobs on this frigidaire are supposed to light up when they are on? The don't now, but they may just have burned out bulbs.)

The copper is where the water comes into the house from the city main. It then, of course, becomes galvanized, so the whole place needs to be switched out.

But the house does have oil heat. The original oil heater, actually. It's blue.

 

[deeptub]

Heating Element

TurboTom: We used to have a KDI-16 that had a heating element in the sump--it was a 700W single wattage that only energized during the main wash for "keep-hot" purposes. Seems like a fiberglas blanket on the tank would have been a lot simpler and done as much good. I don't know how cool the water could have gotten, or how much good the element could have done in the 8 or 10 minutes the main wash lasted. Anyway, that was the only non-Superba pre-19 series I have seen with a water heater.

T.

 

[spiralactivator]

Congratulations on your lovely new home. Those are all good sturdy appliances. I'm sure whatever is wrong with the Maytag can be fixed very easily. I've cooked with fixed heats; it's tricky at first, but you get used to it.

 

[appnut]

I seem to remember the KDS16 across the street had the Constant Rinse.

 

[customline]

Are you crazy?

You're going to get rid of the range? And the dishwasher?

 

[dalangdon]

Crazy like a fox! ;-)

The dishwasher is fun, but it's cramping my style, space-wise. It's living in the breakfast nook, and breakfast doesn't like that at all.

The stove is great, but my O&M is better. Life, as they say, is all about the compromises.

Besides, just look at that pretty O'Keefe & Merritt, which is at this very moment languishing in the garage, looking at me with those sad brown eyes everytime I open the door. It's matching coppertone Coldspot is also wondering when it's going to get to go to the main house.

 

[toggleswitch]

It IS a great stove there Dan...

 

[tomturbomatic]

Dan, the little lightbulbs are supposed to light when the switch is out of the "OFF" position. They are very small bulbs and there is something special about them. I think it is that they light when the switch grounds them.

Those burner controls are so logical. First heat when switched to the right is High, next Simmer. Most everything in pans sized for the 6 or 8 inch elements that is brought to a boil on High finishes on Simmer for regular quantities or Low for larger batches. First click to the left is Med-Hi to start frying, or pan broiling and Med Low or Low to finish cooking.

Does the element under your Deep Well Thermizer pan lift up to be used as a 4th surface unit? The broilers are very powerful. Unless you O&M has an ultra ray or micro ray broiler you won't match them.

Now just help me here, please. You were getting a 40" electric range, but it was not the Hotpoint like you talked about at first because something the dealer did or did not do or have. So you got another electric range, a Flair(?)I thought, and you loved it. You took it out of your house and put the little GE in the kitchen before you put your house on the market. So do you or do you not have an electric range that you brought from the previous house?

Thank you. That is all. It's not that I am really nosey, just confused.

 

[dalangdon]

Think of it like 'My Three Sons'......

Just like the TV show, where there were actually four sons, and eventually a little girl. There are five stoves, but we don't talk much about the oldest one ;-)

1.) The '58 Hotpoint is on "permanent loan" to my neighbor, in exchange for some work he did for me. He's an architect, and designed his new kitchen around it. (That would be Steve Junior)

2.) The Flair is in storage at the moment. It's in good working condition, except for one burner. It's too tall to fit in the new kitchen without ripping out some cabinets. The plan is to put it in the basement with the GE wallmount when we pop the window out. (Robbie)

3.) The O'Keefe and Merritt, which I've already blabbed about and bored you to tears with. (Chip)

4.) The '53 Frigidaire which is the topic du jour. (Ernie)

5.) The pushbutton GE, which was cutesy and sort of annoying. (Dodie)

 

[petek]

And it was all downhill once Dodie and her mom arrived

 

[chachp]

Dishwasher Manual

I don't know if they left this behind or not, but here is the manual for your dishwasher.

Pardon Our Interruption...

 

[westytoploader]

Wow Dan, cool 60's appliances! Enough to start your collection and they all seem to be in good shape...glad they survived all those years!

That GE dryer, while BOL, is cool, especially with the horizontal door handle. And I LOVE the Avocado Maytag! I'd say keep them all...there's room!