Thread Number: 77527
/ Tag: Ranges, Stoves, Ovens
New to me Flair Custom Imperial |
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Post# 1015168 , Reply# 1   11/20/2018 at 10:42 (1,955 days old) by ksbanker (Kansas)   |   | |
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That is a beautiful piece! Love the style! |
Post# 1015201 , Reply# 2   11/20/2018 at 16:13 (1,955 days old) by coldspot66 (Plymouth, Mass)   |   | |
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I do have a Gemline 120v speed heat 6" surface unit NIB. |
Post# 1015211 , Reply# 3   11/20/2018 at 19:14 (1,955 days old) by Lorainfurniture (Cleveland )   |   | |
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The clocks sadly are always broken. There was one gear that they seemingly made out of the crappiest metal and a few teeth chip off. Other than that the stove is pretty solid. |
Post# 1015223 , Reply# 5   11/20/2018 at 19:57 (1,955 days old) by ken (NYS)   |   | |
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Could the clocks in later models have been of better quality? Friends of mine just down the road have a 62 or 63 single oven Flair that was in their house when they bought it back in 1995. They never had the clock repaired and its been running all this time. Guess its possible previous owners of the house had it repaired/replaced but I doubt it.
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Post# 1015480 , Reply# 6   11/23/2018 at 01:06 (1,953 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Ken, they were better. In 1962, Frigidaire switched from GE/Telechron to International Register timers and they usually last much longer. The GE timers had many gears that could wear out and you were lucky if the Telechron rotor failed before the gears as they are much less expensive to replace. I managed to fix a few late-1950s and early 1960s GE timers that had a bad motor/rotor.
The oven switch contacts on the International Register timers are rather small and these do fail sometimes but the clock mechanisms do last longer than the previous GE ones. |