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Thread Number: 75801
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
White Westinghouse continental double oven question |
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| Post# 996327 , Reply# 1 6/5/2018 at 23:09 (2,145 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c ) | ||
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Its a Westinghouse, way before the WCI days, and a MUCH finer range than anything WCI made, I don't know about getting a glass cut?? | ||
Post# 996336 , Reply# 3 6/6/2018 at 00:31 (2,145 days old) by neptunebob  (Pittsburgh, PA) |
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First thing I might do is take the glass with the writing on a copier and make more than one copy of the writing, just so you will have something with the writing in case it breaks totally. Also see how hot it gets, perhaps a piece of Plexiglass or Lexan will work if it's not too hot to melt. Could the glass perhaps be cut in half to preserve at least the top half of the panel?
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Post# 996350 , Reply# 5 6/6/2018 at 06:53 (2,145 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Neat Range Unfortunately I parted out and scraped two of these exact ranges a year or so ago, your best bet would be to look out for a parts donor. I do still have a lot of parts for these ranges and I will look to see if I saved the control panel glass.
I was always very fond of WH ranges built in this time period, not only are they cool looking but they always performed very well, I fact I have said for the last 40 years that WHs electric ranges were by far their best major appliance, followed by their Front Load washers.
The down side of WH ranges in this time period was wiring failures at terminals, bad thermostats, clocks and surface unit and other switches. The reason I tossed the ones we had was the continuous clean coating in the upper ovens often starts to fail and flake off, if your top oven finish is good that is plus.
Overall if you want this for your main range in your kitchen you are going to need to scrap out another one just for spare parts, also for a vintage two oven range you would be far better off with a GE or HP if you actually intend to use it much.
The real crown jewel in the WH is to find one with the Automatic Stirring top element, and the real Crown Jewel on the GE-HP is to find one with the miracle Versatronic lower oven that can microwave at the same time as it bakes or broils.
John L. | ||
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Post# 996362 , Reply# 8 6/6/2018 at 11:11 (2,144 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Shocking Range Element
Hi Jason, the reason you are getting shocked from the RF element is that the element is not grounded to the ranges cook-top properly.
From your picture it looks like the range does not have the correct surface burners on it and as a result they may not be making a proper ground connection. You can check the grounding of each element with an Ohm meter by touching one probe to each element and the other probe to something metal on the MW etc, you should have O Ohms resistance. Even though this is shocking the hell out of you you are only getting 120 volts from a leak like this [ which is enough to KILL you ] John L. | ||
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Post# 996374 , Reply# 9 6/6/2018 at 12:13 (2,144 days old) by cuffs054 (MONTICELLO, GA) |
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The WH is a beautiful range. | ||
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