Yep, Another Caloric Ultramatic Has Arrived in Brooklyn: Part One

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I have decided to take this stove apart.

 

It will donate the illuminated panel, the Utra-ray broiler door, knobs and the side panels if possible to my '64 Caloric.

 

Parts I will keep, the rest of the control panel, oven rack, oven door, broiler drawer, runners, all burners, drip plates, grates, valves, oven thermostat, stove top, and anything else I can salvage. Basically I'll be recycling a stripped down carcass. This is not a decision I took lightly. It really does break my heart. But with these parts, I can keep my Ultramatic working indefinitely. So in a way, it will live on. I will post pictures as I delve into it.
 
Finally getting around to this Caloric...

 

 

I opened up the back. I still can't see why the original plug was taped up and a new wire and plug were wired up only to the oven light. I don't see any evidence of a short anywhere yet.  Pretty spartan back there compared to my kitchens Ultramatic.

 











 

 

 
 
 

 

Since everything works as it should, the only reason I can think of is that somehow the knobs for the oven and panel lights were lost. Then someone just bypassed the panel and wired up the oven light directly to a plug. Talk about doing something half assed.

 

On a brighter note (no pun intended), I found a qualified repair man to convert the Caloric from LPG to natural gas. 

 
 
 

 

What have we here? The valve for the automatic burner was disconnected and a regular valve was put in it's place. Looks fairly recent. So now the question is; Was granny fed up with the automatic burner? Or was the valve defective?

 



 

 

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