Help with my "new" Westinghouse range

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That really is one nice electric range!

The floor looks nice, too... Really puts my plain "adobe" tile to shame! (Maybe we need a Kitchen Flooring Thread...)

Keep it nice looking, working good & use it in the best of health (especially if--too bad!--it doesn't have a Self-Cleaing oven)...

-- Dave
 
It's been my experience that on LOW, it is a single coil in the element operating on 120V. This is why the GE Hi Speed Calrod elements with an inner and an outer coil, as opposed to the interwound coils on regular 6" elements, when set to "2" and "Lo" only the inner winding heats giving you a 4" element. Five heat WH elements used an outer ring that made one turn around the inner turns of the element for both the 6" & 8" elements. Medium High and Low did not heat this outer coil. GE reversed that heating pattern for their 8" elements that were not interwound. On "2" it was the outer coil that was heated for frying in large skillets.
 
WH Units..

The deluxe Westinghouse ranges began using infinite heat controls in 1953, the lower priced ranges used the 2 coil 5 heat system thru the late 50s, but all of there ranges used infinite heat switches and a wide single coil Corox by the time this range was on the market...As for the Automatic Corox, im not sure exactly how it worked!
 
Is the W in the oven glass the actual logo for 1961? It is a beautiful range. Congrats. alr
 
Is the W in the oven glass the actual logo for 1961?

Not a according to my research its not. My research indicates they switched to the W with the dots on each point in late 1960....PAT COFFEY
 
If It is like most Westinghouses!!!

The outsise will stay cool even when the oven is used at higher temperatures, much better insulated than some other ranges!
 
Yes, there is another arrangement with single coil 120V in the low range. Didn't those have 6 settings instead of 5? HI, 2, MED, MED-LO, LO, WM. I had several but that was 65-75.

From the description, the sensor "prevents burning" so it is most likely a thermal cutout that overrides the setting and shuts the burner off around 180*.
 
hi kevin what a beautiful electric range love it theres nothing like electric to cook with im not a big fan of gas stove i absolutey hate them n the smell gas but love your range lots of luck with it n enjoy!!!! lou
 
Steve,

I can thank you enough for these!! It's wonderful to have this information! I told Santa that the only thing I wanted was the owners manual for my 1961 Westinghouse Aristocrat range - and now I have it!

Thanks, again!!
Kevin
 
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