Stove parts?
Marie Stanaway
I'm in need of a few parts for an Atlas stove - anyone help on where to
purchase stove parts?
Also needed a recommendation on where to have a lounge suite recovered,
dining table & chairs repolished and a good/reliable interior painter - you
guessed it! Revamp time! Parnell area!
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Lin Nah
>I'm in need of a few parts for an Atlas stove - anyone help on where to
>purchase stove parts?
>Also needed a recommendation on where to have a lounge suite recovered,
>dining table & chairs repolished and a good/reliable interior painter - you
>guessed it! Revamp time! Parnell area!
What sort of brand is Atlas?
How about asking their supplier? If not try a stove repair shop
If it is an older stove, I'd go to one of those 2nd hand stove dealers.
There's a few around. The one I went to (which sold fridges, stoves,
dryers) was in Onehunga: Remade Appliances, 20 Selwyn St, Onehunga
I know they sold stove rings, coils, racks. However I am not sure if
they will have the brand or part you are after.
There is also some electrical supply shops and hardware shops that are
big enough to stock unusual parts. again mostly they are coils, stove
rings etc. Look up in the yellow pages www.yellowpages.co.nz
Lin
Dave McL
>
> Marie Stanaway <auck...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> >I'm in need of a few parts for an Atlas stove - anyone help on where to
> >purchase stove parts?
>
> What sort of brand is Atlas?
Atlas Majestic Industries was a company which made totally crap
products, from stoves to TVs and stereos. It closed even before the free
market came along; even Muldoon's subsidies couldn't keep it afloat.
I very much doubt there will be parts around for a museum piece like
that.
Peter Kerr
>
>If it is an older stove, I'd go to one of those 2nd hand stove dealers.
>There's a few around. The one I went to (which sold fridges, stoves,
>dryers) was in Onehunga: Remade Appliances, 20 Selwyn St, Onehunga
>
Thanks Lin, practical advice again ;-)
Places like that are being shoved out to the back of beyond, with all the
new apartments buying AEG, Smeg, Melissa, ...
>
>What sort of brand is Atlas?
>
Atlas were (past tense :-( made and sold by the National Electrical
Engineering Company, or NEECO. Atlas stoves were, like F&P fridges are
today, in most NZ kitchens. Early models stood on about 300mm legs. There
was a bimetal mechanical thermometer in the oven door, and in the centre
of the semicircular scale was a 4 colour enamel picture of Atlas holding
the world on his shoulder.
--
Peter Kerr bodger
School of Music chandler
University of Auckland New Zealand neo-Luddite
k.cooper
Onehunga Mall, heading towards the Mangere Bridge, opp. and down from the
Power Tool Centre.... darn it, the name escapes me. Anyway, they repair and
rejuvenate all sorts of electric ranges.
Kerry C
Marie Stanaway <auck...@ihug.co.nz> wrote in message
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>
> I'm in need of a few parts for an Atlas stove - anyone help on where to
> purchase stove parts?
> Also needed a recommendation on where to have a lounge suite recovered,
> dining table & chairs repolished and a good/reliable interior painter -
you
> guessed it! Revamp time! Parnell area!
>
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Peter Kerr
>
>Atlas Majestic Industries was a company which made totally crap
>products, from stoves to TVs and stereos. It closed even before the free
>market came along; even Muldoon's subsidies couldn't keep it afloat.
Agreed, crap, they swallowed the dregs of all the local assemblers that
couldn't keep up, but did they make stoves too?
>I very much doubt there will be parts around for a museum piece like
>that.
The original Atlas from NEECO is indeed a museum piece, but there should
still be heaps of cannibalised parts around from ones people have thrown
out not realising their value ;-)
Dave McL
>
> Dave McL <davemcl@AXE*THISiprolink.co.nz> wrote:
> >
> >Atlas Majestic Industries was a company which made totally crap
> >products, from stoves to TVs and stereos. It closed even before the free
> >market came along; even Muldoon's subsidies couldn't keep it afloat.
> Agreed, crap, they swallowed the dregs of all the local assemblers that
> couldn't keep up, but did they make stoves too?
After seeing your earlier post on Neeco, I have wondered all day if AMI
was not related to Atlas the stove people.
It was a very long time ago. I wasn't into buying stoves or any other
appliance in those days. But I have this vague remembrance of newspaper
articles long gone that the Atlas in Atlas Majestic Industries was the
stoves part. The Majestic was from Bell Majestic, the TV maker.
I stand to be corrected by anyone, and would welcome any info on this
long-forgotten era in New Zealand manufacturing.
Dave Dingley
AMI was a revamped DRECO ... Dominion Radio & Electronics Corp.
... Huia Rd Otahuhu .. became Atlas Electronic Industries (AEI)
about 1972 (iirc) then Atlas Majestic Industries in 75/6 then
Atlas Gentech about 89 ... now Gentech ???
As far as I remember there was no association with Atlas stoves
... certainly did not see any stoves at Otahuhu when I swept the
floor after school (got lots of other goodies though)
I think the stoves were the (slightly) up market NEECO models
that came from Dunedin (but not Shacklock)
Try Mastertrade .. they are what is left of the old Neeco which
was a spinoff of British Thompson Houston (BTH) who had ties to
General Electric ...
Geez all this shows I am as old as my family tell me I am ...
Grey Haired Dave
PS Lyn got it right about the place in Onehunga ..
chris 'fufas' grace
Dave Dingley wrote in message <37B97633...@ihug.co.nz>...
>I think the stoves were the (slightly) up market NEECO models
>that came from Dunedin (but not Shacklock)
>Try Mastertrade .. they are what is left of the old Neeco which
>was a spinoff of British Thompson Houston (BTH) who had ties to
>General Electric ...
BTH was the English arm of US General Electric. (There was already
a British General Electric - GEC). After a number of corporate
subsidiary swaps over many years, it merged with AEI (Associated
Electrical Industries) which was part of the Thorn Group, and this,
in turn, merged with English Electric.
NEC was a subsidiary of Cable Price Corporation. They did quite
a lot of manufacturing - mainly light fittings and switchboards,
plus transformers. They did a lot of business with power boards
I used to have an account there, and delving around in their
warehouse in Gt South Road was just like finding buried treasure.
Dave McL
> Try Mastertrade .. they are what is left of the old Neeco which
> was a spinoff of British Thompson Houston (BTH) who had ties to
> General Electric ...
BTH, now that brings back memories too. BTH made the electrical
equipment and motors for Auckland trolleybuses No 60 to 133.
Peter Kerr
>
>AMI was a revamped DRECO ... Dominion Radio & Electronics Corp.
>... Huia Rd Otahuhu .. became Atlas Electronic Industries (AEI)
>about 1972 (iirc) then Atlas Majestic Industries in 75/6 then
>Atlas Gentech about 89 ... now Gentech ???
Now my memory has a hazy gap about that period. I always though that the
Atlas Majestic brownware was inherited from Bell-LaGloria, which would
figure if Dreco was named after Dominion Rd where Bell's original factory
was.
More thread drift: that original factory of Bell, on the high point at the
city end of Dominion Rd, was the site of Auckland's first TV transmitter,
and is now a chinese supermarket...
Peter Kerr
>
>BTH, now that brings back memories too. BTH made the electrical
>equipment and motors for Auckland trolleybuses No 60 to 133.
Our first vacuum cleaner was a BTH, like an overgrown carpet sweeper, with
a great bag extending up the handle...
Lin Nah
I received. My only experience was in April this year. The freezer
started to get warmer and things like sorbet and ice-cream/bread all
became melted/defrosted.
I rang around asking to see if someone could come look at it. I felt
that I had to do something that day to see if it was getting worse. If
it got any warmer I wanted to take the frozen stuff to someone's place
(who had a relatively empty freezer) so I could store it there.
None of the places I called in the yellow pages could come that day.
A couple of the places definitely didn't have any phone skills. I don't
think any of them tried to help work out what the problem was.
I started trying the places with phone numbers close to my area. The
landlord recommeded this place. The lady not only listened to my
description of the problem (Which she relayed to the repair person),
they worked out a couple of reasons for the problem. She then told me
they could come that afternoon and she made sure the guy had a particular
part in his van in case that was the problem and it could be repaired
immediately.
He came, told me there was a slow gas leak and it was probably in the
tank but could be along the pipes - they wouldn't know for suretill they
tested it. Approximate price came up to what he told me a 2nd hand fridge
could cost. So I went out there to look at fridges. Found one almost the
replica which was delivered the next day (and they took the fridge away).
I was told the frozen meat in the freezer would be ok.
The fridge was installed and delivered the next day (along with a dryer
I thought would come in handy for the winter).
I know they can now repair that old fridge and sell it. However I got
the fridge for something close to the quoted price of the repair. They
also didn't charge me the call out because I bought the fridge from them.
I'll now have to try persuade the landlord to get me a new set of stove
rings from them.
I think if you ring them up, they'll tell you if they have the atlas stove
part you are after.
Lin
Dave Dingley
> I used to have an account there, and delving around in their
> warehouse in Gt South Road was just like finding buried treasure.
Remember their warehouse in Stanley St ... valves and all sorts
of transistors that no one else had heard of and _tunnel diodes_
!!!
Dave Dingley
>
>
> Now my memory has a hazy gap about that period. I always though that the
> Atlas Majestic brownware was inherited from Bell-LaGloria, which would
> figure if Dreco was named after Dominion Rd where Bell's original factory
> was.
Yep AMI carried on the La Gloria name and made some brown goods
under contract to Farmers
IIRC Golden Knight brand , but some of that was manufactured by
Bell and Radio(1936) Ltd (Quay St building is still there I
think)as Ultimate and later Pye . As far as I remember Bell just
folded their tent and faded away with no contact with DRECO/AMI
DRECO did do at least one run of Bell Colt radios for Bell (500
or so )about 1961 .
>
> More thread drift: that original factory of Bell, on the high point at the
> city end of Dominion Rd, was the site of Auckland's first TV transmitter,
> and is now a chinese supermarket...
and NEECO's warehouse was very close to the MOT/Police Stanley St
base ,if not the same building.
Dave
Peter Kerr
>and NEECO's warehouse was very close to the MOT/Police Stanley St
>base ,if not the same building.
>
monstrosity. When I was an apprentice NEECO were in Little Queen St,
behind the Oxford cinema.