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Originally Posted by dglcomp
Agreed the glass top "ceramic" hobs are a world away from solid hobs.
As for restoring a cooker, the closest I have got to is stripping down the control panel on the Belling Format my Gran owns, looked much better afterwards. Means it still looks really good (near new) after over 30 years of use (admittedly the glass top was replaced at some point but years ago), it's always nice cleaning up an older piece of equipment and making it look like new.
Our Zanussi looks less nice despite the fact that it is much newer, most of that is due to having legends printed on the surface and most of them having been rubbed off, annoyingly a single legend ring is £13! The Belling has all the legends on the back of a piece of glass/behind glass so no amount of cleaning of the front will rub off the legends.
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I love those Belling Format cookers from the 1980`s, and I`ve had the control panels apart on a few of them over the years, bit fiddly but look so much better for a clean up. I actually own two of them, a 600X which was the very first ceramic from about 1982, in immaculate condition (I keep that one as a spare, as you do!..........), and a later 1980`s version which I spotted on Ebay - new old stock, so I grabbed it! That one is my daily driver, and is as close to brand new as I`ll ever see.
I`ve always had a bit of a fascination with Belling cookers, which I think stems from my grandparents buying one of the very first Belling fan ovens in the 1970`s, and it lasted right up until about 10 years ago and had to be scrapped only because I couldn`t get a thermostat for it