Riddle: What's turquoise and has 2 ovens?

[rp2813]

It sold at the last minute for the starting bid.

 

I had contacted the seller about alternative arrangements if it didn't sell, but I'm relieved the stove found a home.  He was going to re-list it with more pictures and details if it didn't sell.  He wanted the stove to go anywhere but the scrap pile.  It's too beautiful for either him or me to have let it end up in the krusher.

 

[vacbear58]

I know a lot of guys dont like the colour

but that Harvest Gold range looked immaculate and spotless

Al

 

[combo52]

GE 40" Range

This is one beautiful range, it would be about a 1965 model one year newer than the copper-tone one that I got in Pittsburgh last year. It would also be the last year they had Pink, Yellow and Turquoise as they brought out Avocado the next year.

 

We have the 1966 edition in white if anyone really has their heart set on one, but as of now it is set to move to Mopar-Manor to help Jeff's struggling collection of vintage stoves and refrigerators.

 

These were great ranges but the early SC ovens could be a little difficult to fix, but when they worked they worked great.

 

Hans, removing the Senca-temp burner control, HORRORS next to the SC oven the ST is the greatest thing about a GE range like this, it is especially nice when the other burners have the five heat controls. I have have this exact same burner control system in the W Va. house for 30 years and it is a delight to cook and can on this range.

 

[norgeway]

Well....

The next time you come South I will let you work on the Norge..It has a big old robertshaw control with a capillary tube running to the sensor, and it works no better than the electronic ones Ive had!If it was fixable I think it would be great, but everyone I ever got a hold of didnt work, or worked a very short time, I had a big old Hotpoint one time and I thought the first time I tried it, man this is going to be great, I put on a big pot of water for pasta, it held that water at boiling perfectly.....for about five minutes, there was a big POP then a wisp of smoke from behind the control panel...and then I had high and off!!!that was the last one I even tried to use.

 

[firedome]

The capillary-hydraulic Auto Calrod

on our 55 year old GE works perfectly, whereas an 85 yr old appliace repair/store owner guy we know in Vermont who's worked on them since the 1940s told us last summer that the electonic ones that came along a couple of years later were much more finicky and trouble prone... knocking on wood.

 

[combo52]

Automatic Top Burner Controls

There are at least four major types that have been used over the years, most range makers started equipping their better ranges with at least one automatic burner by about 1955. The first ones were mostly hydraulic and were pretty reliable. Westinghouse had a electronic one by the later 1950s that actually used vacuum tubes in the control system. Most however just went to using a thermistor as the sensor coupled with a responder control [ these were not technically electronic ] this is what GE [ and most other manufactures did ] did till the end of this feature in the early 1980s. Frigidaire actually went from a HC to an electric control and back to a HC till they dropped the feature in the early 1970s.

 

To be continued.

 

[circlew]

John, I was thinking that though GE dropped Pink around '65, that Turquoise stayed until '66, and Yellow into '67 when Harvest was introduced. Was there some overlap in color availability?

 

[danemodsandy]

John:

Do you have any photos of the '66 around?

I only wish I had room for one. I thought I would be moving some months ago, but that prospect didn't come to pass.

Still, it would be nice to drool over a photo....