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Post# 1021747   1/19/2019 at 21:11 (1,895 days old) by friscosudz (Portland OR)        

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Nice GE kitchen in turquoise. Not in as good condition as the yellow set that I posted earlier, but still in fairly good shape. These are in West Seattle. $300 for the entire batch - not a bad deal.

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Post# 1021752 , Reply# 1   1/19/2019 at 22:41 (1,895 days old) by moparguy (Virginia)        
Nice set!

Wow, a dinner dial oven!



Post# 1021772 , Reply# 2   1/19/2019 at 23:54 (1,895 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

The only fly in the ointment is that the oven controls are NLA. Beautiful pieces, though. The oven door could be moved to a less deluxe oven to still have a matched turquoise set with a non-stock oven if the controls go bad.

Post# 1021807 , Reply# 3   1/20/2019 at 06:39 (1,894 days old) by turquoisedude (.)        

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Oh wow! Looks like the SD403 dishwasher with 3 wash levels!  Boy, if that were closer I'd be in the car...LOL 


Post# 1021832 , Reply# 4   1/20/2019 at 12:12 (1,894 days old) by appnut (TX)        
Dinner Dial Oven?

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Please explain.  I was wondering what the two little knobs to the left of the temp probe temp settings knob was for.  Don't recall seeing that before on a GE.  


Post# 1021839 , Reply# 5   1/20/2019 at 12:56 (1,894 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL)        
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GE's TOL ovens used 'Dinner Dial' controls, which were just lightly different from the conventional setup.  I had them on my 1961 40" range and they were neat.  The left dial still functioned as an "Oven Set" knob and the right was the "Oven Temp" control.  Here's the description of their operation from a 1960 Owner's Manual:

 

"OVEN SET has settings for BAKE, TIME BAKE, ROTISSERIE, BROIL and OFF.  The knob when turned switches the proper unit(s) on for the desired operation.  The position at which the oven is set will show in the window between the OVEN SET and OVEN TEMPERATURE knobs.  At all positions other than OFF, a light comes on in the window and stays on until OVEN SET is at OFF position.  In addition, an oven signal light below the control goes off when the oven is preheated to the set temperature, and then goes on and off with oven unit, during cooking.

 

"OVEN TEMPERATURE knob is used to set the desired heat for the food to be cooked.  When the knob is turned in either direction, it will move a red indicator behind the temperature scale."

 

These dials were fun to work with, but had to explain without standing right in front of them.  What these instructions fail to explain is that when the 'set' knob is rotated to OFF the temperature scale in the window disappears; it rotates in conjunction with how the 'set' knob rotates.

 

lawrence


Post# 1021847 , Reply# 6   1/20/2019 at 13:56 (1,894 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Each of the function settings moved a little card in the window with the temperature settings in white on it and the temperature dial moved a pointer. The bake & time bake cards had the widest range of temperature settings. Rotisserie had just 350 and maybe 25 degrees on each side on it because that was the setting range recommended for the operation. Broil had just the 550 setting because GE regulated broiling intensity by distance from the broiler.

Post# 1021858 , Reply# 7   1/20/2019 at 15:46 (1,894 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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Lawrence & Tom, thank you both very much.  Fascinating!!!



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