danemodsandy
Well-known member
Well, thanks to AW Power, my "new" GE range landed in Waterloo this evening just after 6:00 pm. John (oldskool) fetched her all the way from where Tim (polkanut) found her and brought her to me! Many, many thanks to them both, and to Ben (swestoyz) who dropped by and helped enormously with getting her into the house.
I am thrilled so far, although I won't have a chance to dive into her until this Wednesday. She is a Model J 370002 WH, serial number F N268442 G. If that helps anyone date her, I'd be grateful for the info. I'm thinking '73 or '74.
All cosmetic issues I see are addressable; I won't be living with any of those "Oh, that's too bad" issues. The major cosmetic issue at this point is that she needs a new set of knobs; the ones she has have been dishwasher-faded.
She has some features I didn't realize she'd have. One is tilt-up Calrods instead of plug-in ones. Another is trim rings with drop-in burner bowls instead of one-piece burner bowls. She is all and I do mean all porcelain, including the sides and even unto the inside of the storage drawer. She has that early P * 7 slide-up oven window shield, which I haven't seen since about 1977.
One thing she does not have is the setup we've all seen on ranges for the last twenty years - a wall bracket with dire warnings about the range tipping over if the oven door is opened without the bracket installed. This baby is wayyyyy too heavy for that ever to be a problem!
The Sensi-Temp burner is also the multi-size kind, selectable for 4", 6" and 8" burner use. It's also set up to handle a griddle; I'm guessing that turns on the 6" burner behind the Sensi-Temp burner.
While the oven selector knob has a "Rotisserie" setting, there is not a rotisserie kit port in the rear wall of the oven, which is actually a relief, because if there was a rotisserie available, I'd want one, and I already know what those puppies fetch on eBay.
I have a lot of detail cleaning to do. She's actually quite clean for such an old unit, but there's the usual schmutz in the usual crevices.
But she's real and she's here and I could not have done it without this group! In fact, I really didn't do it at all - others were the driving force here.
I am grateful, guys. More - much more - later.
I am thrilled so far, although I won't have a chance to dive into her until this Wednesday. She is a Model J 370002 WH, serial number F N268442 G. If that helps anyone date her, I'd be grateful for the info. I'm thinking '73 or '74.
All cosmetic issues I see are addressable; I won't be living with any of those "Oh, that's too bad" issues. The major cosmetic issue at this point is that she needs a new set of knobs; the ones she has have been dishwasher-faded.
She has some features I didn't realize she'd have. One is tilt-up Calrods instead of plug-in ones. Another is trim rings with drop-in burner bowls instead of one-piece burner bowls. She is all and I do mean all porcelain, including the sides and even unto the inside of the storage drawer. She has that early P * 7 slide-up oven window shield, which I haven't seen since about 1977.
One thing she does not have is the setup we've all seen on ranges for the last twenty years - a wall bracket with dire warnings about the range tipping over if the oven door is opened without the bracket installed. This baby is wayyyyy too heavy for that ever to be a problem!
The Sensi-Temp burner is also the multi-size kind, selectable for 4", 6" and 8" burner use. It's also set up to handle a griddle; I'm guessing that turns on the 6" burner behind the Sensi-Temp burner.
While the oven selector knob has a "Rotisserie" setting, there is not a rotisserie kit port in the rear wall of the oven, which is actually a relief, because if there was a rotisserie available, I'd want one, and I already know what those puppies fetch on eBay.
I have a lot of detail cleaning to do. She's actually quite clean for such an old unit, but there's the usual schmutz in the usual crevices.
But she's real and she's here and I could not have done it without this group! In fact, I really didn't do it at all - others were the driving force here.
I am grateful, guys. More - much more - later.
