Thread Number: 58740
/ Tag: Ranges, Stoves, Ovens
The Wonder Oven is working! |
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Post# 813166 , Reply# 2   3/9/2015 at 23:32 (3,306 days old) by Kenmore71 (Minneapolis, MN)   |   | |
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Post# 813512 , Reply# 3   3/11/2015 at 22:00 (3,304 days old) by chaik76 (Pa)   |   | |
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Thank you so much for that information! |
Post# 814819 , Reply# 4   3/19/2015 at 19:34 (3,296 days old) by mom11 (Dundee, MI)   |   | |
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I'd love to see pictures of your wonder oven. I may have missed them if they were posted before. I just love oogling all the sweet vintage cookage. |
Post# 865208 , Reply# 7   2/2/2016 at 14:24 (2,977 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c )   |   | |
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A Mirro Matic pressure cooker was offered for a few years and will fit any Frigidaire Deep Well. |
Post# 865287 , Reply# 8   2/3/2016 at 00:43 (2,976 days old) by MattL (Flushing, MI)   |   | |
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I've been looking for that pressure cooker for years on ebay. IIR might have come across one years ago but the price was $$$ way too high for me. Like to have one, not that I'd use it much, but it'd be a cool addition to my Frigidaire range. |
Post# 867005 , Reply# 11   2/13/2016 at 15:18 (2,966 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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The element should glow red on high. If it does not, you need to check the switch, the element and the wiring. |
Post# 867230 , Reply# 12   2/15/2016 at 00:11 (2,964 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Since you're in Canada, I assume your range is a 1951 RO-60C?
First, is the burner in your picture #3 the one that's on your range or is it a spare? Can you see the wattage stamped on it. It should be 1600W for the 1957-59 models.
The original burner didn't have a black Bakelite connector, it had a white porcelain connector with screws. The correct type for your range should be 1200 watts, they switched to 1600 watts in 1955 (still with the same style white porcelain connector for 1955-56.
If you use it as a normal burner in the upper position, it should be slower and not as bright as all others on the "high" position, or a bit hotter/brighter than the right front burner when it's set on Med-Hi.
Your burner should be wired to black blue and red wires just like the later one on your picture. There should also be a green safety ground wire attached to the connector.
Since you say it has only two wires connected to it, there must be something incorrect in the wiring. It should have 3 wires in addition to the green ground wire and among them, no white wire. Even the last 1958-59 deep well burners which were linked to infinite switches still had 3 terminals.
Here is a picture the wiring diagram for your range (It's the US version without all the fuses, we didn't have specific Canadian Tech Talk manuals but you might have a wiring diagram printed at the back of your range). If you need a clearer picture, let me know, I could email it to you.
The second picture shows the specifications for the 1951 RO series (there were later RO-2 models which were similar but the RO-60-2 had different surface unit knobs).
The third picture shows the wattages of the surface units and the thermizer on the different positions. The position marked with an asterisk (med-low) isn't there on the RO-60 so this burner has 4 heat settings.
The last pictures explains how to test the different switch positions with a 250V test lamp connected to the wires instead of the burner. Since your range has been rewired and one is missing, you'll have to find what has been done (and probably why!).
Even with the Thermizer working correctly, it won't glow as red as other burners and on "High" it will should be just a bit brighter than the right front 8" burner on "Med High" setting.
If you have more questions about the correct part numbers or need more information from the manual, I can try to find it for you. Your 1600 watt burner might work if you rewire it as it should but I can't tell if the switch will handle the extra wattage. |