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RCA Estate electric range!
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Post# 665743   3/14/2013 at 06:30 (4,061 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c )        

Aint this a nice one!!!

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Post# 665745 , Reply# 1   3/14/2013 at 06:59 (4,061 days old) by perc-o-prince (Southboro, Mass)        

I just emailed the seller for more info!

Assuming everything works, does anyone know anything about this model? Year? Reliability? Things we should ask or look for?

Looks like it's a double oven? I was thinking maybe a french-door big oven, but with the window in one side I'm now thinking double oven.

Chuck




This post was last edited 03/14/2013 at 08:53
Post# 665772 , Reply# 2   3/14/2013 at 09:53 (4,060 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        
Very nice stove

It has one regular oven for baking and broiling and beside it is the Estate Bar-B-Kewer oven for meats. I have an owner's manual for it. The heat only comes from the top in the BBK oven. If you do something large in it like a turkey, you have to turn it over part-way through the cooking process. The BBK oven has two heat inputs, but not a thermostat. While it allows you to broil in the BBK oven while you are baking in the main oven, I would not consider it a double oven range in the usual sense.

Under the griddle is a BIG 10" surface unit, great for canning & cooking in large pots.


Post# 665773 , Reply# 3   3/14/2013 at 10:03 (4,060 days old) by firedome (Binghamton NY & Lake Champlain VT)        
Yearwise more like a

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1955, just as a guess? ioho the mid-50s were the pinnacle for ranges, the best balance of vintage quality and modern features, with transitional styling. Our '58 GE has lots of bells & whistles, but it doesn't have the quality of ranges from a few years before, hence it will eventually be replaced by a '55-'56 model.

That is a beauty - hope you snag it!


Post# 666037 , Reply# 4   3/15/2013 at 11:34 (4,059 days old) by perc-o-prince (Southboro, Mass)        

Here's what the seller came back for a condition report. Looks like the griddle and clock may need help? Any ideas/opinions would be appreciated!

Chuck


Post# 666038 , Reply# 5   3/15/2013 at 11:35 (4,059 days old) by perc-o-prince (Southboro, Mass)        

Question- should the right oven knob be different from the others?

Also, as was said... "The heat only comes from the top in the BBK oven. If you do something large in it like a turkey, you have to turn it over part-way through the cooking process. The BBK oven has two heat inputs, but not a thermostat."

Why, then, does the left oven knob have degree markings (indicating a thermostat) and a B broil setting? Could this be the wrong knob? Or maybe a slightly different model than your book, Tom?


Post# 666039 , Reply# 6   3/15/2013 at 11:36 (4,059 days old) by perc-o-prince (Southboro, Mass)        

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Post# 666060 , Reply# 7   3/15/2013 at 13:47 (4,059 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c )        
Those are!

Two ovens, not just the BBQ oven.

Post# 666121 , Reply# 8   3/15/2013 at 19:16 (4,059 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Indeed, double ovens. Sorry. That is one of the two styles for TOL Estate range. You could either get the BBK oven on the left or the double oven with the "in oven bar-b-kewer" on the right side which is what this stove has--a real bonus. The knob at the far right controls the BBK function in the right hand oven, or at least it did in the manual I have. The griddle has a grove around it that empties into the well at the front. It's a little dirty, but looks like it should look. The right oven knob is a replacement. The left-most knob selects what the timer operates automatically. The fact that the white knobs above the ovens are so white is a good indication that the stove was used carefully, probably little broiling and no oven fires. I would imagine that the left rear element was a deepwell that has been replaced with a Chromolox unit. The deepwell probably still had an open coil element on a range of this age. It is pre-1956. Even in 1956, the oven used open coil heating elements for both bake and broil, hence the porcelain evenizers over the bake elements.

Post# 666175 , Reply# 9   3/16/2013 at 00:37 (4,059 days old) by westingman123 ()        

I am gobsmacked. That is a helluva range.

Post# 666215 , Reply# 10   3/16/2013 at 07:52 (4,059 days old) by kimball455 (Cape May, NJ)        

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Never knew that RCA made ranges like this .. What a gem.
Harry


Post# 666223 , Reply# 11   3/16/2013 at 08:47 (4,058 days old) by perc-o-prince (Southboro, Mass)        

Thanks, folks!

Any ideas on what the seller is reporting on the griddle and clock? I quote: "I do know that all of the burners and over elements worked, however, the griddle did not. I had looked underneath and it looked like it was just unplugged, but I'm not sure... But if memory serves me right, there are built in lights which worked, the outlets worked, but I do not believe the clock was working (but never really checked it out / played with it at all)."

Chuck


Post# 666265 , Reply# 12   3/16/2013 at 12:52 (4,058 days old) by perc-o-prince (Southboro, Mass)        

Oh, yeah, and if we do get it would anyone happen to know the whereabouts of an original knob to replace the right oven knob?

Post# 666415 , Reply# 13   3/17/2013 at 05:19 (4,058 days old) by 58limited (Port Arthur, Texas)        

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Estate ranges were good stoves but they are not that common. Finding the knob will be difficult, but check on ebay - one might turn up. I have a 1940 gas Estate stove with a broken knob, searched off and on for years and haven't found one yet. I think I can repair the original but not sure.


Post# 666425 , Reply# 14   3/17/2013 at 06:58 (4,058 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

I think the Estate range in the collection was sent for scrap, but you might check with combo52 to see if he saved any knobs.

Post# 666458 , Reply# 15   3/17/2013 at 11:49 (4,057 days old) by perc-o-prince (Southboro, Mass)        

I'm thinkin we may pass on this one. Can't be sure that the griddle works or what may be wrong with it (he says it looks like it's unplugged, but who knows) and we don't know if the clock may or may not be an easy fix.

Post# 791918 , Reply# 16   11/3/2014 at 22:30 (3,461 days old) by robertlight ()        
I have a RCA-Estate like this one... does anyone else?

I have a 1954/55 RCA-Estate range like the one you're discussing here.

I would like to find others who have the same vintage.

In particular, I'm searching for a thermostat for the thing - everything on my stove (except perhaps the clock) is working fine.... but the oven won't maintain the proper heat consistently.

Any help would be very welcomed. Attached are photos of the back of my thermostat.

- Bob


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Post# 822492 , Reply# 17   5/7/2015 at 19:08 (3,276 days old) by lo250 ()        
rca repair parts

here is a good resource for RCA Estate repair parts

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Post# 1112238 , Reply# 18   3/21/2021 at 16:38 (1,131 days old) by Jwbrown1014 (NC)        
Manual for1953 RCA estate range

I read somewhere in here that one of you gents has a manual for a 1953/1954?
Any chance you’d like to sell it or let me get a copy of it?
I am now the proud owner of the estate 1953
And we are a little bit at a loss of how to proceed🤪

Also there is quite a bit of rust on metal surface under the drip pans/ burners. We have removed most of the rust but there is a lot of pitting discoloration of that previously stainless metal . Is it possible to paint this , or just clean and leave well enough alone?

Thank you for all your help!


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Post# 1112265 , Reply# 19   3/21/2021 at 20:03 (1,131 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area)        

Nice range. Don't have a manual for it, but it was made not far from here in Hamilton, OH. The factory closed in 1961.

If the sub-top has rust and heavy pitting, I doubt it's stainless steel, but rather a chrome plated finish. Paint would have to be a heat resistant type, and the surface properly prepared for it to hold up. If you want to spend more money, you could have it replated.



Post# 1112353 , Reply# 20   3/22/2021 at 14:05 (1,130 days old) by Jwbrown1014 (NC)        
RCA estate

Well we vacuumed and scrubbed rust off and put it back together and everything works great except the clock and the ovens.. the right hand oven worked for sure but it was hard to get cookies to cook correctly unless rack was on top setting right under broiler.. I am confused about whether this side is the meat over, or the bar b kewer..

Left hand oven worked but lower element is broken so a slow warm up...

Sure would like to find a manual to figure out what the bar b kewer is all about!!

Is Tomturbomatic still active on this site? I think he is the one who had the manual..

Thank you for your help!



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