Well, cooked another meal on it last night (see photo), so far so good! I made spaghetti with meat sauce, used three burners and the small oven for the garlic bread. Everything turned out perfect! I think I'm really going to like the infinite control on the burners.
The clock doesn't work - the second hand spins, but the minute and hour hands don't move. We tried tinkering with it but think one of the gears is bad. I had a lovely exchange with General Time Repairs, and they said to send it in, they'll be able to fix it, because it's a GE clock assembly. They needed a number off the back of it, so we pulled the range out last night and took the back panel off so I could snap a picture. Prices are very reasonable, and the woman I was dealing with was super friendly and helpful. So we'll send the clock off at some point soon to be rebuilt.
Robert tried Tom's 'click test' yesterday, and no luck. While we had the back panel off, we investiated the Speed Heat switch and found the part number on the switch that is in that slot. Checked it against a parts book, and unfortunately it is just a regular infinite switch. Phil had sent us some specs on testing the burner element to see if that was still the original Speed Heat burner, and as we were going to pull it out, Robert spotted a part number on that as well - just a plain-jane burner. Oh well, we agree that at least we have four operational surface units, and at some point we'll find the parts we need to get it working as original again.
We do know that the Heat Minder was replaced, probably in the early 60s, as we found the replacement instructions tucked inside the back panel. There's also an updated wiring diagram for that fix stuck to the back of the range.
Happy Frigidaire Cooking! Yay!
