Thread Number: 78712
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1966 Frigidaire Wall Oven Insulation no longer working. |
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Post# 1027149 , Reply# 3   3/15/2019 at 19:28 (1,840 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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You can open the doors and see if the insulation has settled, if so you can add more, when I need insulation for repairing older ovens I just take it out of an old Self-cleaning oven that is being recycled.
That said these older non SCOs do not have great insulation. and it can be normal for the doors to be very hot to the touch, there were no exterior temperature standards back then, now they let room air flow through the door to keep the outer panel temperature low enough to touch BUT doing this actually wastes more heat than your older oven.
Check the insulation, if ok keep using the oven, teach the kids not to touch the oven just like our parents did if you want to have a vintage oven, and if it was me look out for a 1966-1978 FD double oven where the top oven is SCing, these are great ovens and best of all there is no heat wasting dirty oven windows on these ovens.
John |