danemodsandy
Well-known member
Vincent:
"Obsessed" means that you will find ways to obtain the range, transport it and take care of its problems. You need to be obsessed to do all that, LOL!
I was obsessed with my 30-inch GE J 370 when I first got it, and a good thing, too! While it was far from the dirtiest or worst-condition range I've ever dealt with *, it took 35 or 40 hours of cleaning, detailing and tuning up, plus a parts order from John combo52 to replace some worn stuff and add back some missing goodies, like the correct broiler pan and the griddle. (It may never have had the griddle when new; the feature was optional on the J370.)
So, for a while, I was very, very involved with the range, but it has paid off, because now it's clean, it's gorgeous (Ben swestoyz said he was a "little jealous" of it, and I have never heard him say that before!) and it functions like new.
My advice, in short, is to become obsessed and stay obsessed until she's in your house, looking good and doing what she oughter. You'll have a much nicer range than anything your ritzy neighbors with all the stainless appliances have.
* The honor of Grungiest Range Ever goes to a Westinghouse 40-incher I owned back in the '70s, when I lived in Chattanooga, TN. I bought it from a used furniture dealer, Close Furniture, downtown on Market St. It was nasty with caked-on grease everywhere, a totally overwhelmed continuous-clean coating in the oven and even paint and Minwax stain spilled on its top. Why did I tackle it? Because it was all of three years old, and Mr. Close despaired so much at the prospect of finding a customer for something so filthy he priced it at $45 - dirt-cheap even in 1978. It took nearly two weeks of evening and weekend cleaning before I was satisfied. The next time Mr. Close delivered something, I showed it to him, looking like new; he nearly dropped his teeth. "I thought you was crazy," he said. "I guess you knew what you was doin', all right." Comments like that make all your hard work worth it.
"Obsessed" means that you will find ways to obtain the range, transport it and take care of its problems. You need to be obsessed to do all that, LOL!
I was obsessed with my 30-inch GE J 370 when I first got it, and a good thing, too! While it was far from the dirtiest or worst-condition range I've ever dealt with *, it took 35 or 40 hours of cleaning, detailing and tuning up, plus a parts order from John combo52 to replace some worn stuff and add back some missing goodies, like the correct broiler pan and the griddle. (It may never have had the griddle when new; the feature was optional on the J370.)
So, for a while, I was very, very involved with the range, but it has paid off, because now it's clean, it's gorgeous (Ben swestoyz said he was a "little jealous" of it, and I have never heard him say that before!) and it functions like new.
My advice, in short, is to become obsessed and stay obsessed until she's in your house, looking good and doing what she oughter. You'll have a much nicer range than anything your ritzy neighbors with all the stainless appliances have.
* The honor of Grungiest Range Ever goes to a Westinghouse 40-incher I owned back in the '70s, when I lived in Chattanooga, TN. I bought it from a used furniture dealer, Close Furniture, downtown on Market St. It was nasty with caked-on grease everywhere, a totally overwhelmed continuous-clean coating in the oven and even paint and Minwax stain spilled on its top. Why did I tackle it? Because it was all of three years old, and Mr. Close despaired so much at the prospect of finding a customer for something so filthy he priced it at $45 - dirt-cheap even in 1978. It took nearly two weeks of evening and weekend cleaning before I was satisfied. The next time Mr. Close delivered something, I showed it to him, looking like new; he nearly dropped his teeth. "I thought you was crazy," he said. "I guess you knew what you was doin', all right." Comments like that make all your hard work worth it.
