I have an older, I believe mid 70's cream colored kenmore model 628.9468213 serial 6B 81029 electric range.
It has a few problems...
I can use the right 2 burners together with no issue.
It seems like if I try to use a right burner and a left burner I get an awful burning smell.
This range has the big normal size oven on the right and then a narrow oven on the left.
The range is missing one of the oven temp knobs and the selector knob is broke.
The ovens do not appear to stop heating.
I am planning on selling this range (I like the overall design of it and how solid it is built) but I came into a 1930's magic chef gas range, complete with the light fixture. It has an issue I will address in another post.
I plan to have the magic chef installed, as the house is a 1941 build, and I want to gradually make the kitchen as period as possible.
I want to price the Kenmore electric range appropriately.
If the repairs are going to be expensive for the new owner, then I want to price accordingly. If the repairs are going to be inexpensive, then I want to get decent market value for it, to hopefully cover the cost of having the gas line extended back into the kitchen.
Anybody know what I might be looking at as possible repairs?
One person suggested that the wrong knobs could cause the oven to not stop heating... sounded odd to me, but I am not an appliance repair person, so who knows?
I am in Dayton, OH, if that might have any bearing on anything.
Post# 580900 , Reply# 1 3/6/2012 at 20:22 (4,441 days old) by runabout ()
Sorry, I was going off memory (from a time when my health was a disaster) and after playing with the range for a while, here is the true scoop...
The smaller oven will stop heating. The control knob is apparently not the correct knob though, it will heat to about 350 and the knob is turned to the blank space before even the lowest temp setting of 170, so this must be the knob for the large oven.
So the big oven does not stop heating, it is set to 200 and is now up to 350 and still climbing. at least I was correct about that!
It got up to 375ish and kicked off, but the knob says 200, and it appears to match the style of all the other knobs... I put 2 thermometers in the oven and they vary greatly, one says 385ish and the other 450, but the oven is kicking off.
I really am not normally this dysfunctional... did I mention I was in very poor health recently...? wow... so sorry...
so THE REAL PROBLEM is the range top burners with the left side making smells if I turn the left and right on at the same time...
I'll try to figure out how to get the right knobs for the selector and small oven.. and then it is just the burner issue to figure out.
thanks and reallY I am so sorry... I tried to delete and repost but I could not due to my member level.
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