another model id question

[ouseidel]

All,

My wife and I are so excited, We just bought my Chambers stove, and am trying to decide where to begin cleaning it up!

We could really use some help id'ing my specific model, though. I have seen none quite like it, and only found one message on an archived page of Hostboard that describes mine. It was from 2004, by Pam Tranthman, but I dont think she is a member anymore. Below is the info I have. If anyone knows how to decipher the S/N & Model # that would go a long way. Thanks in advance.

Description:
S/N: 5-65461 (under front rt burner)
Model: 5-A4-2(under front rt burner)
Also, lists Shelbyville, IN on plate

Specs: 3 burner, thermowell, griddle/broiler in top and oven.
Color: White with black accents on the edges
Handles: chrome ? they pivot out, not turn

Special: This model screams deco ? deco chrome feet, backsplash in deco that doesn?t run the full length of the back. The backsplash has a light bar at the top. Under the light, there is a timer. Timer is flanked by 2 black bubbles ? they are actually removable Salt and Pepper shakers that have deco ?S? and ?P? on them.

I posted a couple of images on the CRTS Yahoo group if people are members there as well. it is called "ouseidel's chambers, maybe."

[chipperhiker]

Hello and welcome! Your stove is a model A, probably from the 1930s. I'm not familiar enough with the As to be more specific, but it's a start.

-jenn

<font color="#FFFFFF" size="1">[ July 09, 2006 09:49 PM: Message edited by: chipperhiker ]</font>

[Kitzig]

Hi, Welcome to the board. It looks like your model is an A that was made in 1935. Here is information that Sam "Uncertain Stoveman" posted at one time.

""They" told me that the first number in the serial number is the year built. So, a Model "B" with serial 9XXXX would be a 1939, Model "C" with serial 2XXXX would be 1952. The "B" models were manufactured from 2/39 to 10/48, "BZ" models from 10/48 to 8/49 and the Model "C" started in aug. 1949."

I also have an A Model and her names is Mrs. Watts. You can look on the Chambers site and Todd has posted instruction on how to start cleaning.

[url="http://www.chamberstoves.net/"]http://www.chamberstoves.net/[/url]

[url="http://www.hostboard.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=7954&t=6"]http://www.hostboard.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=7954&t=6[/url]

Good luck and let us know your progress.

Lori G.

[maryopal]

I just love a good mystery. Surely someone has the secret decoder files from the factory. I bet they just might show up on eBay! [img]wink.gif[/img]

[chipperhiker]

Wouldn't that be FUN!?

-Jenn

[chipperhiker]

WARNING: NERDY POST TO FOLLOW [img]graemlins/smarty.gif[/img]

The funny thing about those serial number guidelines, though, is that there just aren't enough digits. They show how to interpret a 5-digit serial number, whereas the numbers I've seen posted, as well as the ones printed on my own stoves, have a 6-digit formula X-XXXXX.

The first digit on my stoves' ID plates are all preprinted in black, and the last 5 digits are stamped directly in the aluminum. If the paint wore off from cleaning, it might only look like a 5 digit number.


Ouseidel's stove's number is 5-65461.

The question is, do we ignore the preprinted number before the hyphen (the 5, in this case), or do we use it???

I would have guessed the stove in this thread was from 1936, as I have taken to ignoring the pre-hypenated first digit because it doesn't fit the formula Sam posted. Plus, if I used the first digit, all three of my Model C stoves would be from the same year ('51), and that would be quite a coincidence, especially considering the differences between them.

Of course, it really doesn't matter if Ouseidel's stove is from 1935 or 1936. It's all just for fun anyway, and doesn't change the fact that he's got a very cool mid-30s Model A stove!

-jenn

p.s. Sam himself says the guidelines he posted way back when were just based on hearsay, and not necessarily on fact. When he won't commit to a system of aging Chambers stoves, then that says a lot to me. Maybe there was no definite plan for serial numbers in the Chambers plant.

We'll probably never know for certain, unless someone can compile a database of serial numbers from stoves where people still have the original sales receipts or if factory data were to show up somewhere. That would be fun.

[Traumensie]

When I got my stove, the woman I bought it from said it was a 1949 Chambers model B, and I didn't think twice about it. It was definitely a model B - has the high back with the side lights, the timer up on the back splash, the milk glass spice shelves, no vent on the stove top, and the stove-top cover. So now I have it in pieces, and I can see the serial and model numbers clearly:

6-62266 (serial number)

15 - B - 41 (model number)

After reading this thread, it appears that my stove is a 1946 model B, right? My first thought was that it was a 1941, since that is the last 2 digits on the model number. I suppose the woman I got the stove from could have read the serial number upside down, confusing a 6 for a 9.

[Fatnsassy]

For Traumensie, Could it be that the women purchased the stove in 1949 but it was made in 1946? Just a thought.

[Traumensie]

Hi Fatnsassy!
The woman I got the stove from bought it from ebay about 6-8 months ago, so I guess the owner before that told her it was a 1949, and who knows, maybe THEY purchased it in 1949. [img]smile.gif[/img]