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Based on my own experience growing up with the 1949 Westinghouse range my parents purchased after getting married and my mom used for the rest of her life, over the decades there would be instances where a portion of a burner would stop heating.  In all but one case, one of the leads from the switch had detached/broken off at the burner connection.  Inspect for that first.

Considering your stove was in use by its original owner for all of those years and was well-maintained, I suspect the burners were treated well.  My mom never banged pots and pans around on the burners, and that's why only one of them ever needed to be replaced.

There may be replacements available though a member here if not on ebay, etc., and it appears the large burner up front isn't original, so you may want to find the correct one for that spot.

Congratulations on your rescue.  It looks like it belongs there, and I really like the front-mounted burner controls.

So Tom, I had it backwards about the large burner? 

Now that you've mentioned it, that coil looks kind of old-timey.

Coincidentally, the original large and highly used Corox element on my mom's stove was still fully functional, as was everything else, when I passed that stove along to a former AW member in 2008 and saved it from the scrap heap.

Yes the large RF element is the correct original type. I can see by the picture that the inner part is not heating at all by the grease on that element.

The original elements were pretty unusual in that one coil was 120 volts while the other was 240, this was the only electric range [ I ever saw ]that ever did a dual voltage element.

It is hard to know where to start, I think if you really want to cook on this range much I would use 4 of the newer radiant tube elements and replace all four switches and control knobs.

The other thing you could do is find a low milage newer FD range and take parts from it, something between about 1950 and 1955.

John L.

Beautiful Mathieu.  Congratulations, great save.  What's the dishwasher to the left of the range?

Mathieu, I just may have one of the older large Frigidaire elements in my parts stash.  I know I have the smaller ones;  I will try to remember to check for you on the weekend (they are in storage down at my other house where most of the vintage stuff lives!).

Warning don't try using a regular 8" monotube element on your range unless you can find the special dual voltage element, or you want to rewire and replace the switches.

Whatever you do be sure the elements are all grounded to the range body and the range is grounded to the neutral wire of the cord if you are using a 3 wire cord, otherwise you can get some nasty shocks when picking up a hot metal pan handle.

John L.