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Post# 585179 3/26/2012 at 14:15 (4,436 days old) by Jetcone  (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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Post# 585182 , Reply# 1 3/26/2012 at 14:17 (4,436 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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Woman kept things clean | ||
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Post# 585186 , Reply# 2 3/26/2012 at 14:22 (4,436 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Post# 585210 , Reply# 3 3/26/2012 at 16:01 (4,436 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis) |
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Post# 585262 , Reply# 4 3/26/2012 at 19:46 (4,436 days old) by appliguy (Oakton Va.) |
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more like 1987 :-)  | ||
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Post# 585268 , Reply# 5 3/26/2012 at 20:59 (4,436 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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AHH the dials looked a little new to me | ||
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Post# 585288 , Reply# 7 3/27/2012 at 07:23 (4,436 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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A stove for people who don't care about stoves This is NOT a GE manufactured stove. My parents were bilked into buying the double-oven version of this stove back in the late 1980's when the Sensi-temp burner on their beautiful 1957 Liberator double-oven stove went bad. This was one of the stoves that had clear plastic buttons that lit up in different colors according to what heat was selected on the unit. It also had the built-in griddle, a meat thermometer and the small 6" Sensi-Temp burner. And everything that could be illuminated electrically, was. It was identical to the one pictured below. The local GE dealer technician convinced them that it would be more trouble to repair it (and of course the clock was broken) than to buy a brand new one. I don't think their dealer even knew that this was a rebadged unit.
Not a bad stove overall, especially for people who were getting on in years and used it mostly for heating their morning kettle of water for instant coffee, but a big disappointment to my Mother who found the small oven on the left too narrow for any of the roasting pans that she was able to use in the Liberator. I always tell people who ask me to bring their favorite cookware with them to the dealers before they put down money on a new stove to see what fits. The Liberator ovens were so well designed that you could use them almost interchangeably. Where the "large" oven on the right was extra wide, the "small" oven on the left was extra deep. Turkeys would be roasted in the small oven while my parents would bake potatoes and pies in the big oven for holiday meals. On the new stove, the small oven was barely 11" wide and useless. 
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Post# 585290 , Reply# 8 3/27/2012 at 07:34 (4,436 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Post# 585296 , Reply# 9 3/27/2012 at 08:41 (4,435 days old) by hydralique (Los Angeles) |
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Pushbuttons . . . When did GE quit using pushbutton burner controls on their electric cooktops? IIRC they were about the last major manufacturer to do this, no doubt a '57 would have had buttons and maybe even a '67. | ||
| Post# 585304 , Reply# 10 3/27/2012 at 09:34 (4,435 days old) by firedome (Binghamton NY & Lake Champlain VT) | ||
Pushbuttons | ||
| Post# 585310 , Reply# 11 3/27/2012 at 10:15 (4,435 days old) by 54monroe () | ||
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Pushbuttons... GE used the pushbutton burner controls untill 1975. | ||
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Post# 585448 , Reply# 12 3/28/2012 at 08:24 (4,434 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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They did not change them out across the whole line all at once. There were still lower end models produced with pushbuttons while the upper end had infinite switches. | ||
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Post# 585457 , Reply# 13 3/28/2012 at 10:30 (4,434 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Push Button surface unit switches These were killed when UL added the requirement that TWO DISTINCT MOTIONS were required to turn on surface units and gas burners on stove tops. This happened around 1972 and at the same time they no longer permitted convenience outlets on gas and electric ranges because of the danger of cords getting too near hot elements and gas burners. There may have been some GE ranges still in the warehouses or houses that were not sold till 1975 that had PB controls but I don't think I ever saw any in the GE product catalogs that late that included them. I am sure that someone here can verify when GE stopped making these. | ||
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Post# 585463 , Reply# 14 3/28/2012 at 11:03 (4,434 days old) by countryguy (Astorville, ON, Canada) |
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| Post# 585467 , Reply# 15 3/28/2012 at 11:16 (4,434 days old) by macboy91si (Frankfort, KY) | ||
Convenience Outlets I think this was a great idea for kitchen gadgets for an older kitchen with limited outlets. In my old house, I have a 1954 GE 24" SpaceMaker, and it had an outlet on it which was VERY nice. I think Westingman123 has that stove now, I miss it daily, but could not at the time take it with me. SLAP!
-Tim | ||
| Post# 585700 , Reply# 18 3/29/2012 at 12:00 (4,433 days old) by macboy91si (Frankfort, KY) | ||
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Good Home It always makes the difference to know something is getting used and to a good home. I would love to find another like it, I HATE the flat-top 2007 GE in my kitchen. I have never seen a stove so incapable of boiling water or heating in general. Maybe there is something wrong with it, but it sucks. The oven seems to work well enough, but it's so damn "blah" looking. Matches the howling 2006 GE SxS fridge and the 18" Frigidaire DW well though.
-Tim | ||
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