Thread Number: 53356
FREE Vintage GE Double Oven - Excellent Condition (san anselmo) |
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Post# 757045   5/14/2014 at 23:30 (3,605 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia )   |   | |
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not the oven someone is looking for and not a P7, but free!
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Post# 757054 , Reply# 2   5/14/2014 at 23:49 (3,605 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia )   |   | |
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Post# 757059 , Reply# 3   5/14/2014 at 23:54 (3,605 days old) by washdaddy (Baltimore)   |   | |
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evidently they must be using the short yardstick....lmao |
Post# 757108 , Reply# 4   5/15/2014 at 05:28 (3,605 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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Post# 757125 , Reply# 5   5/15/2014 at 07:39 (3,605 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Post# 757142 , Reply# 6   5/15/2014 at 08:41 (3,605 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia )   |   | |
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Post# 757169 , Reply# 7   5/15/2014 at 13:42 (3,604 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ)   |   | |
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Post# 757177 , Reply# 8   5/15/2014 at 14:43 (3,604 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia )   |   | |
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Post# 757207 , Reply# 9   5/15/2014 at 17:39 (3,604 days old) by washdaddy (Baltimore)   |   | |
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then maybe FREE not so good this time......lesson learned! |
Post# 757209 , Reply# 10   5/15/2014 at 18:21 (3,604 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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John, my first thought exactly! |
Post# 757269 , Reply# 11   5/15/2014 at 20:57 (3,604 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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The doors extending over the sides of the range is the easiest indicator of a WCI-built 40-incher.
The burners at each end of the cooktop is a slightly less reliable indicator for ranges built after 1957, because GE did make that wide-set configuration itself for a while after the Straight-Line Design styling debuted in '57. Here is a photo of a '57 GE Mainliner (originally posted by Ben swestoyz) showing burners at each end of the cooktop, even though GE's upper-series Liberator and Stratoliner ranges had burners clustered at the left-hand end of the cooktop. This clustered configuration later became the standard one for GE-built GE's, true, but it wasn't always that way. The wide-set configuration was useful to farm housewives who did canning, blanching, sterilizing and other tasks requiring large utensils - it just gave lots of "elbow room" for large pots. At that point, GE still valued its farm business. So, you can't necessarily count on the burner configuration as a tipoff for a WCI-built range, but the doors overlapping the sides of a post-1957 40-inch range is a reliable indicator that GE didn't build the range itself. |
Post# 757291 , Reply# 12   5/15/2014 at 21:18 (3,604 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia )   |   | |
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I remembered what you said Sandy - and was confused as I thought there was an exception to that rule, but the post 1957 models with doors overlapping the front edges will typically be WCI.
I really did think there was an exception, and after Nate mentioned the id'ing, I kept thinking, I need to ask Sandy again. LOL! Anyways, there are always some fine details. WCI made mostly cheap crap, from what you are saying - but ...is there an exception? I would think there would be, where some of the GE tooling or design was reticently fading rather than suddenly just abruptly changed in one year. Thanks for saving my brain from suffocation. ;-) |
Post# 757333 , Reply# 14   5/16/2014 at 06:41 (3,604 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL)   |   | |
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Post# 757337 , Reply# 15   5/16/2014 at 06:45 (3,604 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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Post# 757338 , Reply# 16   5/16/2014 at 06:52 (3,604 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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Were offered way up into the P*7 era, as this shot shows.
What's interesting here is that the wide-set burners were dropped in favor of the clustered configuration by this time. I think that had to do with the fact that the wide-set configuration only came with three small burners and one large. By the time GE got around to providing budget ranges with the two large/two small configuration, they evidently weren't interested in giving farm customers wide-set burners any more; it had probably become too expensive to tool so many cooktop variations (clustered two-and-two, clustered three-and-one, wide-set two-and-two, wide-set three-and-one). The more "uptown" clustered burners became the norm. It's also interesting that GE evidently felt that the console styling originated in 1957 was still competitive more than ten years later. The built-in clock/timer updates it a bit, but still, that's a '50s look overall, not a '60s or '70s one. This post was last edited 05/16/2014 at 07:16 |
Post# 757343 , Reply# 17   5/16/2014 at 07:08 (3,604 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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Post# 757369 , Reply# 18   5/16/2014 at 09:28 (3,604 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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Ours was like the range under the brown Speedster, but a single oven and before self-cleaning made it below TOL models. |
Post# 757515 , Reply# 19   5/16/2014 at 17:10 (3,603 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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The later, P*7 double-oven range pictured above is a Shopper's Square item. It's priced at $75, and it's in Atlanta. Location is Doraville, which is on the north side of the sprawling metro area.
Here's a link to the Shopper's Square thread, which has a link to the CL ad: www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/T... I really hope it ends up with a member here! |