Thanks for the offer Firedome
If I had my own house, I'd jump on that in a hot minute.
Ken D.
If I had my own house, I'd jump on that in a hot minute.
Ken D.
Old electric range versus new?
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firedome
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You're welcome Ken!
Re: Canadian models: one has to wonder if all those fuses for individual heating units are really necessary as long as the house's breaker/fuse panels are functioning properly? If it were that much of an issue one would think UL or another of the certifying agencies would have required it here also... seems a bit of overkill perhaps?
Re: Canadian models: one has to wonder if all those fuses for individual heating units are really necessary as long as the house's breaker/fuse panels are functioning properly? If it were that much of an issue one would think UL or another of the certifying agencies would have required it here also... seems a bit of overkill perhaps?
philr
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Maybe it is a bit overkill, but I have never seen an electrical fire caused by a range here! And I guess the fuses protect things like switches and thermostats from going bad because of a shorted wire/burner.
I have seen a LOT of imaginative designs in Electric Ranges--OLD electric ranges!--that none of the newer ones could ever compare!
These days all they give you is some nondescript metal slab--universalized for electric or gas w/ the impersonal electronic touch pad panel for the oven control, instead of the neat (Real!) glass or plexiglass backing the old ranges--electric and gas--used to get!
So Vintage Electric (even w/ my defensive fondness of Gas Ranges) all the way! (Use in the best of health!) If you can find a good, still working one that has been re-wired (or re-piped!)...
-- Dave
These days all they give you is some nondescript metal slab--universalized for electric or gas w/ the impersonal electronic touch pad panel for the oven control, instead of the neat (Real!) glass or plexiglass backing the old ranges--electric and gas--used to get!
So Vintage Electric (even w/ my defensive fondness of Gas Ranges) all the way! (Use in the best of health!) If you can find a good, still working one that has been re-wired (or re-piped!)...
-- Dave
Short story long - one of my friends has a '56 range (will get pix this weekend I hope). His mother redid her kitchen while she was pregnant with him and when she redid it in the 80's he took it and put it in his kitchen (not retro at all) and still uses it daily. It has light up push buttons which mostly still work. I wonder if modern ranges will last as long.
