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[Joe Pieweed]

Tara:

The Model B's that I've seen do not have copper tubing.

Joe P

[ouseidel]

DumDum,

Sorry it has taken so long to get back to you. My A doesn't have copper tubing.

Hope this is still useful info.

[lkeriegrl]

While we're on the subject of making things shiny, has anyone taken their griddle somewhere to be polished? If so, is it better to cook on a mirror or satin finish? And how much did they quote?

I live about 1/2 mile from this place called McBuffers, and even before i found my chambers i was like, yeah! I can get things shined up there. They also do plating. (I checked thie website) My stovetop is OK I'm not going to fuss over some minor areas of scratchiness. (Maybe I can even buf them out w/ 0000 steel wool?)

I also picked up some nickel or perhaps aluminum towel bars from a house sale, $.75 a piece. Any experience polishing something like that? We do have a dremel. . .

Edited to add: Williams Stove Polish. THANK YOU! This board ROCKS!!

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[pmisaber]

I may have come upon an answer to the copper tubing question in one of the TOAC price lists (I don't think that they send these out anymore now that they have gone to online sales and email communications). In one area they have a listing of Chambers Antique Stove parts that they sell and include the following listing:

Tubing - RARE 5/32", copper (this is not 1/8")...........1 foot minimum- $8.00 per foot.

So it seems like some of the stoves must have had copper tubing. The folks at TOAC might be able to tell you which models were fitted with copper tubing.

It would be interesting to know when the copper tubing was used and when aluminum became the metal of choice for tubing on our stoves. Seems like there was a post at one time that referred to the fact that the technical advances required for working with aluminum were relatively late discoveries in metallurgy, but my once rock solid memory is no longer so trustworthy (a detestable by-product of aging).

[RobbiQuest]

The only copper tubing my stove has are 2 tubes leading from the manifold pipe, one going to the pilot, and the other to the thermowell.

[pmisaber]

I have been trying to find a solution to the problem of curing Stove Bright paint and found a place in Torrance that provides annealing services. They said that they would be willing to put the stripped down stove into one of their ovens at 400 degrees for a couple of hours. I didn't ask what they would charge because I'm not even close to being ready to paint. One of the Stove Bright representatives told me that even at 200 degrees, the paint would eventually cure, but that it would take a lot longer.