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Frigidaire Compact 30 Electric Range in Turquoise (Mpls/St Paul) |
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Post# 901541   10/2/2016 at 17:47 (2,762 days old) by woomwoomwoom (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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I saw a Craigslist ad for a vintage Frigidaire range for sale here in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro. I had designs on it myself at first, but unfortunately my wife turned up her nose upon learning that it was electric rather than gas....sigh. It is awfully pretty.
CLICK HERE TO GO TO woomwoomwoom's LINK on Minneapolis Craigslist
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Post# 901558 , Reply# 1   10/2/2016 at 20:02 (2,762 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)   |   | |
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Post# 901663 , Reply# 2   10/3/2016 at 20:23 (2,761 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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We had this exact range, it was installed in our 1965 house in W Va. The oven worked great for baking, broiling was very hot, as there is no way to turn down the intensity of the heat on a one dial FD range.
The FD Mono-tube burners were the worst thing about this range, they were always slightly warped, about your best bet cooking on it was to find a cheap pan that would warp like the burners. I also cooked on two other FD ranges and between the lousy infinite heat controls and burners that could be perfectly flat when cool but always warped when heated you could sure see how some users grew to hate electric range tops.
As well built as FD ranges were I would never want one as an everyday range, if had to have one I would replace all the infinite switches with Robershaw controls and thin-tube Chromalox elements. |
Post# 901686 , Reply# 3   10/3/2016 at 23:41 (2,761 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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John, then you like a Canadian Frigidaire range from 1967 to 1970!
They all had Robertshaw infinite switches (that includes the 1967-70 Compact 30!) and the cheaper RA-37L "Deluxe Thrifty 30" free-standing model even had Chromalox burners (the Custom Deluxe, Imperial, Cuisine and Compact 30 models still had Radiantubes).
All free-standing 30" models had broil-bake selectors (and 120 volts to the broil element for baking) or a broiler grill control.
But, they weren't self-cleaning...
I have to say I wouldn't trade one of these Canadian ranges for my 1967 US Custom Imperial range which is the one I currently use.
Note that the dials have reversed "HI" and "SIM" setting on ranges with the Robertshaw switches.
Compare with the previous year's version with the King Seeley switches.
The broil-bake selector with the thermostatic broil on the Imperial and cheaper models.
Here are pics of the 1967-70 Deluxe models with the Chromalox burners, the last two pics show the Frigidaire part numbers for the Chromalox burners and for the Robertshaw infinite switches (designated by the numbers that begin by "341"). |
Post# 901689 , Reply# 4   10/4/2016 at 00:52 (2,761 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)   |   | |
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Post# 901707 , Reply# 5   10/4/2016 at 07:13 (2,761 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Wow Phil , as always thanks for all the information, I always learn so much from all your research.
Years ago we used to do a lot of canning in our W Va house and we have a 1965 GE cook-top with the controls in the hood a 65 40" CI FD range to can on. I would often have four pressure caners going at the same time and the GE even with its 5 heat PB controls was far easier to get the right heat on for a pressure caner than the FD range. Because of the uneven burners on the FD and the wonky INF switches you had to use very different heat setting to get the same results on the FD range.
I have done about four batches of caning here at home the last few weeks and I actually used the Gas Caloric out on the screened porch. It is nice to leave all the heat outside, but boy is it slow to get a big caner up to temperature.
When Jason and I caned 80+ jars of green beans the other weekend at the warehouse we both looked at the Gas Caloric range there and said no-way did we want all that heat and odor in the kitchen. |
Post# 901812 , Reply# 9   10/4/2016 at 23:30 (2,760 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Post# 902015 , Reply# 10   10/6/2016 at 11:39 (2,759 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c )   |   | |
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Any of them are light years ahead of the garbage produced today! |
Post# 902402 , Reply# 13   10/9/2016 at 16:55 (2,755 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Here are pictures showing details of Canadian Compact 30 from 1968 (BC-30N) that I just took yesterday.
1: The oven liner with black porcelain 2: The divided pilot light for left and right burners that displays "L" and "R" rather than "Surface". 3: The knobs with reversed "high" and "Sim" positions and Robertshaw infinite switches. 4: Canadian clock that looks similar to the ones some later (mid-1970s) US models used but with the knobs reversed.
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