oldhouseman
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It appears the toaster is 100 this year. An interesting article on the history of this little machine for collectors out there.
Happy Birthday Toaster
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A great toaster site:
is the Toaster Museum.
It's a lot of fun, if a person likes toasters. I do, but I don't have much of a collection, just for reasons of space.
Lawrence/Maytagbear
is the Toaster Museum.
It's a lot of fun, if a person likes toasters. I do, but I don't have much of a collection, just for reasons of space.
Lawrence/Maytagbear
blackstone
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ronhic
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I have...
....one of the recent ones listed in his gallery....the Australian TA4100...
Mine is actually made in China and I bought it new in 1999. They were $125! But I had always wanted a toastermatic...
....one of the recent ones listed in his gallery....the Australian TA4100...
Mine is actually made in China and I bought it new in 1999. They were $125! But I had always wanted a toastermatic...
I agree that the Sunbeam Radiant Control models make the best toast--if you're toasting slices out of a basic loaf of white bread. All bets are off with any other type or shape of bread. That's my only beef with this particular toaster, but it's the only type that has ever known what I mean when the toast isn't done enough and I adjust the darkness and drop the slices in for a little more browning. It knows only to toast a little more, not start from scratch and turn the bread to charcoal. Major points for that.
Meanwhile we're currently using a commercial type KitchenAid Pro series that has a manual raising and lowering lever because the Sunbeam stopped wanting to lower the bread most of the time. I like that with the KA I can check the doneness without breaking the cycle, and I can put one slice back down to keep warm while buttering the other. But it still doesn't have the brain power of a radiant control model.
Ralph
Meanwhile we're currently using a commercial type KitchenAid Pro series that has a manual raising and lowering lever because the Sunbeam stopped wanting to lower the bread most of the time. I like that with the KA I can check the doneness without breaking the cycle, and I can put one slice back down to keep warm while buttering the other. But it still doesn't have the brain power of a radiant control model.
Ralph
Next to spaghetti and meatballs, toast is probably my favorite comfort food. I salute you on your birthday!
Ralph you can adjust the Sunbeam toasters, they all tend to go out of whack eventually. There's instructions on that website link. I've relinked it here right to the page.
I've fixed quite a few of them, sometimes though you have to end up taking them apart but this is a good start and may solve your problem
I've fixed quite a few of them, sometimes though you have to end up taking them apart but this is a good start and may solve your problem
laundromat
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proposal
I would like to propose a toast now to one hundred radiant years of production,improvements,adjustments,class,design,style,grace and royalty.
I would like to propose a toast now to one hundred radiant years of production,improvements,adjustments,class,design,style,grace and royalty.
polkanut
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I love my Sunbeam T-20B for toasting bagels, sure they sometimes get stuck, but for the most part it works fantastic. I can toast 6 slices of bread in the same amount of time it takes our 3yr old POS Toastmaster 4 slice toaster to do 4. My mother-in-law got our Sunbeam new in 1957 as a housewarming gift, and it's been going strong ever since.
Hey Pete, thanks for re-posting that link. I've saved it. My Sunbeam is probably 50's vintage. It has the rotating shading control knob on one end. If I recall correctly, neighbors had this type of toaster that was probably similar vintage to mine, but I think it had a feature that allowed the user to push in on the shading control in order to stop the toasting cycle and raise the bread. Mine doesn't have that. If I want the toast up sooner, I have to turn the control all the way to the lightest setting and even then it doesn't always stop the toasting, so the next step is to unplug the thing. And of course as soon as you plug it back in the first thing it does is self-lower even if empty.
One of these days I'll open it up and see if I can make some adjustments. It went to the shop for the same non-lowering behavior a long time ago, and it really hasn't had all that much use since and I'm not willing to pay to have it repaired again so will take a shot at it myself sometime.
Ralph
One of these days I'll open it up and see if I can make some adjustments. It went to the shop for the same non-lowering behavior a long time ago, and it really hasn't had all that much use since and I'm not willing to pay to have it repaired again so will take a shot at it myself sometime.
Ralph
