OT - eBay dreamer

I wonder if this was one of the old 915 MHz microwave ovens. The advantage was very uniform cooking. The disadvantge was that it could not cook bacon. Modern microwave ovens run at 2450 MHz.

Joe Gwinn

by about two Gerry :-)} London, Canada

But, but, but it's a CLAAAAASIC!

Huh! We have one even older than that, with the clock dial and a high/low selector, no keypad. Every once in a while my kids tease the door switch and it blows a fuse, and the fan motor needs a drop of oil.

But, maybe I should sell it on eBay for MORE than $1000 as a museum piece, and get a new one!

Jon

Very unlikely. we have one quite a bit older, and it is clearly a 2450 MHz oven. I doubt any 915 MHz ovens were ever sold for home use, as they would have needed a license. The move to 2450 MHz was specifically to satisfy FCC licensing requirements by putting it in a band where nobody would mind. 915 MHz would get the cell phone companies all upset. Any 915 MHz oven would have had to come from the early 1970's, or be a special industrial unit requiring a license.

Jon

We have one that looks just like the eBay one, and it's VERY difficult to find a replacement that's as big height and width, but not much deeper so they don't fit the custom niche in the kitchen (it and the microwave came with the house). 8-(

I do like the old retro red LED display, but it doesn't cook quite as evenly as the newer ones (there's a microwave stirrer but no rotating platter). They also cut corners on the microcontroller reset circuitry, but that's another story.

Ayup. I bought a very similar one at a thrift store about three years ago for twenty dollars.

If you've never cooked a turkey in a microwave, you're really missing out on a treat. Not only does it cook in 1/4 the time, a turkey cooked in a microwave is much moister and juicier than one cooked any other way. And therein lies one advantage to those old Amanas: they're f*cking *huge*: for Christmas dinner a few years ago, I cooked a _twenty_eight_pound_ turkey in mine.

Only one? ;-)

for what it's worth, I have the earlier version of this oven, with the two analog timers. I bought it new in 1972 for $220 US. In the intervening years, I have had to clean/unweld the contacts on the "fast" timer once, and I've bypassed the overcurrent fuse (a thermal fuse inside a resistor) when the fuse blew (the microwave then put out a couple of bright flashes and has worked perfectly ever since). My daughter also has one of these, which I picked up from a neighbor's trash - it also works perfectly. It doesn't have "features", but what it does have is simplicity and reliability - I think I prefer the simplicity over a plethora of wonderous but useless features.

Yeah, by about 3 orders of magnitude. Used microwave ovens are free, if you know where to dumpster-dive. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

Ive got 2-3 Id be happy to give away. Came out of break rooms in the last couple factories I gutted.

Gunner

I am the Sword of my Family and the Shield of my Nation. If sent, I will crush everything you have built, burn everything you love, and kill every one of you. (Hebrew quote)

Same with this clown...

OUCH!!

I am the Sword of my Family and the Shield of my Nation. If sent, I will crush everything you have built, burn everything you love, and kill every one of you. (Hebrew quote)