redcarpetdrew
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Nice looking. Says they have a wiring harness for rewiring...
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Turquoise Frigidaire Range on Reno C/L
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xpanam
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WOW! I have never seen this model before. I like.
xpanam
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I like.
I like how the controls for the burners are not over the burners.
I like how the controls for the burners are not over the burners.
philr
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It's a Custom Deluxe <span style="font-size: large;">RCD-G55-64 </span>
This one's for you Andrew!
This one's for you Andrew!
redcarpetdrew
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I wish...
I don't have the room for another 40". I already have the '26 Magic Chef and the '40 something O'K&M. If need be, I could try to help someone else pick up this gem. If I had the room, I'd think about it...
This looks different from anything else I've seen here lately. Is it a rarer model or what?
RCD
I don't have the room for another 40". I already have the '26 Magic Chef and the '40 something O'K&M. If need be, I could try to help someone else pick up this gem. If I had the room, I'd think about it...
This looks different from anything else I've seen here lately. Is it a rarer model or what?
RCD
philr
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It's the first year for the redesigned Frigidaire ranges. That basic design remained until GM sold Frigidaire but the control panel and clock design was 1964 only.
ovrphil
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"...reno...please gamble here .."
I might need to gamble to pay for it.
That color is easy on the eyes - not too green like some of the other turquoise. Nice large glass window to oven, but the stove top coils(?name) look gargantuan..but maybe that was the norm.
I might need to gamble to pay for it.
That color is easy on the eyes - not too green like some of the other turquoise. Nice large glass window to oven, but the stove top coils(?name) look gargantuan..but maybe that was the norm.
ovrphil
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"...reno...please gamble here .."
I might need to gamble to pay for it.
That color is easy on the eyes - not too green like some of the other turquoise. Nice large glass window to oven, but the stove top coils(?name) look gargantuan..but maybe that was the norm.
I might need to gamble to pay for it.
That color is easy on the eyes - not too green like some of the other turquoise. Nice large glass window to oven, but the stove top coils(?name) look gargantuan..but maybe that was the norm.
ovrphil
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oops, double posted..and no twin I know of...
My grandmother had the next stove down from that when I was growing up. A lot of love came from "electric hearth" of her farm kitchen! It was the RCD-71-64. That range had the double ovens, but not a lot of other "bells & whistles". It was perfect for a farm wife regularly cooking for 8 to 12. By the time I came along the Speed Heat burner didn't operate as such any longer. In fact, since it was the lowest wattage burner on the stove it was always the LAST one to be used. Coffee always got made in the Cornflower Corningwear on the right rear 1450 watt burner. As a bit a testament to Frigidaire's somewhat legendary "well regulated warm-up period" 
, when my grandmother would come out into the kitchen in the morning the FIRST thing she did was turn the right rear burner to high and then proceed to get the coffee pot ready. By the time the pot was ready the burner would be just beginning to turn dull red!
Here's a pic of the left side of the range. Your truly seated at the kitchen table!
The clock is of a different design. I'm guessing it was replaced sometime between 1964 and 1974 when this picture would have been taken.
, when my grandmother would come out into the kitchen in the morning the FIRST thing she did was turn the right rear burner to high and then proceed to get the coffee pot ready. By the time the pot was ready the burner would be just beginning to turn dull red!Here's a pic of the left side of the range. Your truly seated at the kitchen table!
The clock is of a different design. I'm guessing it was replaced sometime between 1964 and 1974 when this picture would have been taken.
Here's the Tech-Talk page showing the 3 top model 40" ranges from 1964.
norgeway
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Re frigidaire units..
They dO take some getting used too, but for heavy cooking they are hard to beat, especially canning, those units dont break like Calrods can under heavy pots, but there is a down side, they are slow heating, and cool down slowly, but I do like the uniformity of cooking because more area is in contact with the pan.
They dO take some getting used too, but for heavy cooking they are hard to beat, especially canning, those units dont break like Calrods can under heavy pots, but there is a down side, they are slow heating, and cool down slowly, but I do like the uniformity of cooking because more area is in contact with the pan.
autowasherfreak
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I like it! It makes sense to have the controls on the right that way you don't risk getting burned reaching over hot pots.
ovrphil
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Kenmore71 - figure 12 has a five dial stove - just one operating oven? fig 13 shows six dials - two working ovens(?) and fig 14 has seven dials; what is the seventh dial function? Broiler?
philr
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Phil
Yes it's a broiler control. There's also a meat probe in this one.
Mark,
I think Kelly has a range that's similar to the one your grandma had (but a 30" model). The 1964 clock design lasted only a year. In 1965-66, they went to a smaller rectangular clock and the model you showed was introduced (I think) on the "L" (1967) models and the white knobs on the "N" (1968) models. The same clock was still used in the early seventies on some ranges.
Here's a picture of Kelly's range.
Yes it's a broiler control. There's also a meat probe in this one.
Mark,
I think Kelly has a range that's similar to the one your grandma had (but a 30" model). The 1964 clock design lasted only a year. In 1965-66, they went to a smaller rectangular clock and the model you showed was introduced (I think) on the "L" (1967) models and the white knobs on the "N" (1968) models. The same clock was still used in the early seventies on some ranges.
Here's a picture of Kelly's range.
Looks like I was off by a few years on that one!
I don't have any of the service literature beyond the 1965 "J" line ranges and from the BW pictures had always assumed that granny's range was a 1964.
I don't have any of the service literature beyond the 1965 "J" line ranges and from the BW pictures had always assumed that granny's range was a 1964.
firedome
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interesting
that they would tout "non-unitized" construction. One would think it a step backward.
that they would tout "non-unitized" construction. One would think it a step backward.
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