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29th Aug 2021, 5:13 pm | #1 |
New Member
Join Date: Aug 2021
Location: London, UK.
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Early 30's Jackson electric cooker
I have an early 30's Jackson electric cooker in a non-functioning but physically good state that I would like to restore.
My question right now as I'm looking at gutting it to repair rust damage and clean is about asbestos - does anyone know if these had asbestos insulation around the oven/in the oven door (there's no sealing "rope" now), and asbestos covered wiring? Any advice here would be greatly appreciated! |
29th Aug 2021, 8:50 pm | #2 |
Octode
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Co. Durham, UK.
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Re: Early 30's Jackson electric cooker
That's very like mine, but a lighter blue, and no ventilator in the oven door.
The boiling-plates are not so good, but the oven is superb. There's a mercury thermometer for the less-intuitive cooks among us. I'm looking out for a period cooker-point for mine. Anyone have anything suitable? |
29th Aug 2021, 10:10 pm | #3 |
Tetrode
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: London, UK.
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Re: Early 30's Jackson electric cooker
Wow. We had one of those in the house I first moved to in London (1976). No thermostat on the oven - control it manually whilst looking at the thermometer. Got good at changing the heat input somewhat before the wanted temperature was reached. There was leakage to case in one of the top elements - the previous householder had removed the earth connection as well.
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30th Aug 2021, 12:07 am | #4 |
Dekatron
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Location: Fakenham, Norfolk, UK.
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Re: Early 30's Jackson electric cooker
Our Revo is a pretty similar design and has followed us around since being the installed appliance in the first and only house we rented, in Lincoln in 1980-81. Inspection of the wiring is easy enough, the side panels are held on by a couple of thumb nuts. Nothing I found looked concerning re. asbestos, but I'm not sure I've ever taken apart the oven door.
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30th Aug 2021, 3:01 am | #5 |
Nonode
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: North Somerset, UK.
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Re: Early 30's Jackson electric cooker
The oven door might have had asbestos rope as a door real originally, obviously no longer available. Substitute material in the form of glass fibre rope is available, it is used to seal the doors and the ashpan on modern log burners and any supplier of spares for log stoves should be able to supply alternative material.
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