Help finding burner socket for old stove.

[ferguson]

Stove is very old (at least 30 years) and made by Westinghouse. Name says "Westinghouse Continental". It has an oven under the range part and again overhead. I find the label but can not read the model number :-( . The label says 20.04 Kw.

The socket is made of a heavy ceramic block. A picture is here:

someone could tell me where to find one of these things I would be very grateful. The usual parts suppliers seem to be unable to proceed without a model number.

Thanks in advance.

Barry

[Sharp Dressed Man]

Go find a better parts store where the guy behind the counter is a real appliance part guy. First clues are he is at least 55-60, smokes a cigar, growls at customers and has a pot belly.

The twerp kid at the place where you went was probably a 19 year old HS dropout with an earring who wouldn't know a heating element from a hole in the wall.

[hallerb]

exactly around pittsburgh all appliance parts is the only place to get super old parts.

I got burner controls for a 40 year old two oven range evewryone else said wasnt avalible at all appliance, made my old friend very happy she loves that range

[George]

Go to a real parts store. Take your photo in or bring in the old part. Pay for the replacement when they hand it to you. Install it. Simple and easy.

[mm]

I agree with you.

Barry, what city are you in. Maybe someone knows a store.

Any chance you can just clean that one up?

[ferguson]

Dear mm, Thanks for the response. No, the one in the pix is a good one. The bad one actually is filthy but I could get by with just one of the vertical springy metal terminals, because the bad connector has one burned through.

I am in Riverside, CA.

Thanks aga> >

[ferguson]

Dear Sharp Dresser,

I could not agree with you more but do not know where to find this paragon. (No shortage of twerps around here tho.) I am in Riverside CA (Southern CA).

S>> Stove is very old (at least 30 years) and made by

[clare]

What I did in that situation was buy a newer element and the plug to fit IT - Solved the problem for another 20 years or so (till THAT part is obsolete)

[mm]

A related techniquie would be to buy a different socket that had approximately the same springy metal terminal.

Another possibility, too late now but good for 20 years from now, is to save little things, including springy metal.

I rarely have to go the store anymore, because I have so much stuff I took off things I was throwing away, wingnuts, capnuts, push-back springs, pull-back springs, flat springs, twist springs, non-metal nuts, .....