danemodsandy
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Courtesy - and I mean courtesy - of the ever-thoughtful Ben (swestoyz), I have a new goodie. Ben found it as a List O'Craig freebie, and thought of me.
It's an Amana Radarange RS-60 microwave, from 1985, made when Amana was transitioning from the heavy chrome and stainless of earlier models to more cost-effective materials. I was in the biz at that time, and I well remember how controversial the move was - some people didn't like the change, but it did make Radaranges more competitive. By '85, the marketplace was flooded with microwaves at all price points, so Amana's product was beginning to look overpriced; they really did have to do something.
It is a fantastic find on Ben's part. It has the manual, the warranty certificate, the warranty return card, and the Introduction to Microwave Cooking cookbook. It also has the oven rack. The only thing the giver didn't include was the temp probe, which will turn up (if anyone has a spare, I'm interested). It was very reasonably clean for a 25-year-old appliance, too. I did have to do a detail cleaning to get schmutz out of the cracks and crevices, but it was nothing compared to what I've been through on some other appliances. It looked to me more like an appliance owned by older folks who couldn't see as well as they used to, instead of an abused or neglected one.
I am going to have to put it on top of the fridge, because it's nearly 14 inches tall, and my wall cabinets are only 13 inches above the countertop. I'm going to have to find some kind of adapter to plug it in; it has a right-angle, three-pronged grounded 110V plug, and it's going to have to share the outlet plate where the fridge is plugged in. Since the fridge has the same kind of plug, its cord blocks the outlet where the microwave will have to plug in.
Very nice appliance in very good shape. Even the stirrer cover/light lens cleaned up easily, and I've seen some Amanas where that part was nothing short of nas-tee. It's not the RR-4D Radarange of my dreams (sigh!) but it's a very, very nice mo-sheen. It's 650 watts, very powerful for the time.
Praise Ben from whom all appliance blessings flow! Here's a pic Ben took in as-found condition; I'll post updated pics later.
It's an Amana Radarange RS-60 microwave, from 1985, made when Amana was transitioning from the heavy chrome and stainless of earlier models to more cost-effective materials. I was in the biz at that time, and I well remember how controversial the move was - some people didn't like the change, but it did make Radaranges more competitive. By '85, the marketplace was flooded with microwaves at all price points, so Amana's product was beginning to look overpriced; they really did have to do something.
It is a fantastic find on Ben's part. It has the manual, the warranty certificate, the warranty return card, and the Introduction to Microwave Cooking cookbook. It also has the oven rack. The only thing the giver didn't include was the temp probe, which will turn up (if anyone has a spare, I'm interested). It was very reasonably clean for a 25-year-old appliance, too. I did have to do a detail cleaning to get schmutz out of the cracks and crevices, but it was nothing compared to what I've been through on some other appliances. It looked to me more like an appliance owned by older folks who couldn't see as well as they used to, instead of an abused or neglected one.
I am going to have to put it on top of the fridge, because it's nearly 14 inches tall, and my wall cabinets are only 13 inches above the countertop. I'm going to have to find some kind of adapter to plug it in; it has a right-angle, three-pronged grounded 110V plug, and it's going to have to share the outlet plate where the fridge is plugged in. Since the fridge has the same kind of plug, its cord blocks the outlet where the microwave will have to plug in.
Very nice appliance in very good shape. Even the stirrer cover/light lens cleaned up easily, and I've seen some Amanas where that part was nothing short of nas-tee. It's not the RR-4D Radarange of my dreams (sigh!) but it's a very, very nice mo-sheen. It's 650 watts, very powerful for the time.
Praise Ben from whom all appliance blessings flow! Here's a pic Ben took in as-found condition; I'll post updated pics later.
