Thomas, as a fellow Flair owner  - congratulations!! 

There was a meat probe - there should be a socket in raised 'box' with what looks like a headphone jack (I'm old so I remember those... LOL) and it would be plugged in there.  On my 1962 model, the meat probe was only offered on the Custom Imperial model, though.  

Original drip pans can be found, but you can very easily substitute modern generic replacement ones.  I've got mostly original ones on mine - I have been lucky in finding spares but I had to do a lot of digging in thrift stores and flea markets... 

The Heat-Minder 8-inch surface unit is the one that is most likely to give you trouble - parts are hard to find, too.  Mine "works" but I bojacked a regular infinite-heat switch to replace the heat-minder switch.  It works, but it's not perfect. 

Roper and Tappan both built Hi-Oven Gas ranges, a lot of the Ropers were sold under the Kenmore name, it does not sound likely that your apartment ever had an electric range.

You need to connect the range to 240 volts to fully test it.

The large oven sensor in picture #2 is a 17.5 Ohm sensor the same as used in the early GE SC ovens and many others., These often failed and oven would not work, the bigger problem is the oven thermostat [ responder ] was also a problem as these ovens aged and combined with the Tender-Matic system very few of these ovens worked properly as they aged, so my guess is the large oven does not work properly which is why the left oven looks so well used.

Best thing to do with these large TMOs is to convert to a regular thermostat like the left oven and give up on the TM feature.

The Speed-Heat burner was another weak point, The Heat-Minder element was very reliable of the vintage range.

The other problem FD ranges had was poor quality wire connections, but these can be fixed as they age and fail.

John L.

I say pass. It'll take major renovations to install for proper use and you really won't gain anything in the end. Hold out until you buy your own place.

I see that everyone has you well in hand, so I'll keep it to 'congratulations'.

We have an extra Flair we bought for parts...which turned out to be in better condition than the one we were working on!

As others have already mentioned, there's solutions for every problem. I've replaced the infinite heat burner controls with new universal ones without problem, even.

And, yes, the ovens are absolutely awful at keeping a temperature. I grew up with a brand new one and it was awful in the 1960s, too. Never mind, you learn each oven's idiosyncrasies.

I never had customers that complained about temperature problems with FD Flair or any FD ranges except the ranges with Tender Matic, this FD may be the only FD Flair model to have ever had this feature and of course only in the large oven.

John L.

I love Flair Ranges. We use one of them as a daily driver half-of-the-year.

I think their design and general build quality is wonderful.

They are repairable.

This doesn't change the fact that their ovens had and have awful temperature swings.

Something I am inclined to forgive in a cheap piece of WCI trash. It's as if the glovebox door on one's '89 Fleetwood Brougham d'Elegance keeps falling open and hitting one in the leg everytime one's not exactly manic driver of a partner goes around a curve faster than 5 Kmh.

Unpardonable and totally General Motors 'Mark of Excellence'.