Rehabbing an old gas range
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We have this Amana gas range which is a slide in type and it is
really old looking.
It is white and the burner bowls have taken a beating and I just can't
clean them. I also cannot find replacement parts. I can find them in
black, but it's not even clear if they are the right size and the
women on the phone couldn't really figure that out either. Mine are
two different sizes because the burners on this stove are different on
both sides.
Next appliances will definitely not be white!
Other than these burner bowls, there are two plastic end caps that I
can buy for - get this - $100!!!! They are plastic. And they're small
two. But the stove looks awful with the busted ones we have on there.
Aside from that it needs 4 knobs in the front beause my wife took them
off when the kids were young and they are lost now.
Other than that the stove looks pretty good and I hate to spend the
money on a new one, not to mention the hassle of having someone
deliver a new one and making sure it fits right with our counter
tops. I'm sure that should be reasonably easy to do but who knows.
I don't think I can paint the burner bowl things because of the heat
from the flame.
So for the price of two end caps, 4 knobs, and 2 burner bowls - if I
can find them, I will have a much better looking stove.
Anybody have any ideas for what to do about these burner bowl things?
Here's a link with a picture of them:
http://www.partselect.com/MultiModels.aspx?ModelNum=ARGS7650&searchTerm=&RefineSearch=0
Would appreciate any suggestions on what to do about the burner bowls.
Thanks,
Steve
professorpaul
manifolds??
Nate Nagel
> How about some of those high temperature paints they use on engine
> manifolds??
The kind you find in your parts store doesn't last, and isn't glossy.
Perhaps, though, a ceramic coating such as Jet-Hot might be the ticket?
I'm more of a car guy so there may be a service available to
re-porcelain old stove parts, I dunno.
nate
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charlie
> professorpaul wrote:
>> How about some of those high temperature paints they use on engine
>> manifolds??
>
> The kind you find in your parts store doesn't last, and isn't glossy.
>
> Perhaps, though, a ceramic coating such as Jet-Hot might be the
> ticket?
> I'm more of a car guy so there may be a service available to
> re-porcelain old stove parts, I dunno.
>
> nate
there's places to reporcelain tubs, so there must be places that will take
small parts too.
hal...@aol.com
far cheaper to buy a brand new range. the parts are still old and even
if you fix it cosmetically at any time another non replaceable part
may fail
Joe
>snip<
Don't waste any more time on the junk stove . Check the Classifieds or
Craigslist for a cheaper, newer better stove. There should be dozens
of choices of replaced appliances resulting from the granite-top and
stainless steel fashion frenzy that the clueless generation worshiped.
Some will even have knobs. Good luck.
Joe
N8N
I guess it really depends on how old the old stove is. If it's 1940s
or earlier I would do everything in my power to keep it going. I
remember my grandmother used to go down to the basement to cook
Christmas dinner on the old gas stove that was moved down there after
the kitchen was remodeled, because she liked the way it cooked better
than the newer (probably late 60's or early 70's) stove that was
actually in the kitchen.
Truth be told, if I owned my own house at the time that my
grandparents moved out of that place, I probably wouldn't have any
room to live for moving all the stuff in that I'd have scavenged out
of there. I just hope the people that bought the place appreciated
all of it and didn't dump it into a valley somewhere.
nate
Ed Pawlowski
> I guess it really depends on how old the old stove is. If it's 1940s
> or earlier I would do everything in my power to keep it going. I
> remember my grandmother used to go down to the basement to cook
> Christmas dinner on the old gas stove that was moved down there after
> the kitchen was remodeled, because she liked the way it cooked better
> than the newer (probably late 60's or early 70's) stove that was
> actually in the kitchen.
>
> Truth be told, if I owned my own house at the time that my
> grandparents moved out of that place, I probably wouldn't have any
> room to live for moving all the stuff in that I'd have scavenged out
> of there. I just hope the people that bought the place appreciated
> all of it and didn't dump it into a valley somewhere.
>
> nate
Check ot some of the stuff here
http://www.antiqueappliances.com/
http://www.antiquevintageappliances.com/
I don't remember what we did with my grandmother's old stove in the
basement, probably junked it. Hey, it was old and we were dumb back then.
As for the OP, if it is of some great significance, try to restore it, but
if it is just a 20 or so year old stove of no particular merit, get a new
one.
I cannot believe the difference between out 25 year old Magic Chef and our
year old Bertazoni. I used to think an oven was just a box that got hot.
Now I know what the new appliances are capable of. Fantastic roasts.