Red GE Stove- Pensacola, FL

[danemodsandy]

Dare I Ask?

First, congratulations on nabbing the Pensacola range!

I have a question, though: Is the lens of the clock/control center cracked, or is that a stain of some kind?

There are porcelain touch-up options that go beyond mere touch-up paint. Acrylic fillers can bring the void of a chip up to the level of the surrounding surface, and then careful spraying of a matching paint over the acrylic can result in a very hard-to-detect repair. Antique dealers are using this idea a lot with chipped porcelain dishes, vases and figurines.

Here's a link to a page offering an acrylic porcelain repair system, about $30:

http://www.acrylicrepair.com/porcelain.html

 

[pulltostart]

Sandy

Yes, that lens is cracked. It will have to be handled with great care. I am disappointed to realize that the text on this glass is not back-painted. It's on the face of the glass and some of it has been worn off.

Oh well, she is far from perfect.

lawrence

 

[tomturbomatic]

What about the harvest gold GE you bought?

 

[pulltostart]

Tom

I will post it on CL and sell. It cleaned up well enough, but I was having difficulty "embracing" the color. There is some internal signs of wear in the oven. It looks like someone either cleaned the h*ll out out the oven or baked/broiled a LOT. The liner for the door is warped and the porcelain is cracked, the same condition exists on the floor of the oven. It does look much better after several days of elbow grease, though.

lawrence

 

[danemodsandy]

Lawrence:

I'm sorry that glass is cracked, but everything turns up sooner or later, so we'll all keep our eyes peeled.

My J 370's control panel glass is not reverse-printed, either. It has held up fine over the course of forty-two years, but then I don't think it was cleaned much during its last few years with the former owner. And it obviously had good care for much of its working life.

Sounds to me like the Pensacola lady might have had some favored scratch pad she used on everything. A lot of people do.

 

[pulltostart]

That or she cooked the text off the glass. She claimed that she had cleaned the range before posting the ad, but I find her cleaning very minimal.

lawrence

 

[fisherpaykel]

red colour name

I don't know GE's name but Belanger or Belanger-Tappan from Quebec called their's POPPY RED IIRC.

 

[danemodsandy]

Lawrence:

On my J 370, the control panel indicia appear to have been silk-screened in glass frit and then fired on. They would hold up to any kind of normal cleaning.

You could definitely wear them away and damage them with use of a scratch pad, though, and a lot of people have no judgment whatsoever about those things. I've seen new stainless sinks with Kurly Kate damage.