wow! we're lucky

[bakersroost]

Hi, My husband and I were at a local auction saturday when a Chamber's Stove was up for bid - no one wanted it ("to heavy to move") they said. So, my hubby and I bought it for the grand total of $1.00 - we didn't know a thing about it other than we have a trailer big enough to haul it home and that we could do something with it. Tonight we are looking up information and WOW! We can't believe what a bargain we got and how wonderful the stove itself is.
But, we do need some help. 1st, we can't find a model number on it anywhere. Can anyone tell me where the model number might be located please? It's a "b" model, we figured that much out, but we don't know what year. I thought maybe 1948 but the oven temperature control knob is completely white and the picture of the 1948 stove we looked at had some red on the knob (is this a agood indicator of the year?).
It seems to be complete with all the burners and pans and things - but there is one oven handle that is broken there is a "foot" (or ear?)broken off the broiler burner. any idea's where to get these things?
the electric cord needs to be replaced, and there is one alluminum plate missing from the shelf thing above the white light.
We had thought about selling it, but, the more we look at the more we are thinking we would like to keep and use it. It's beautiful! and it would be fun to "cook without gas." [img]smile.gif[/img]
I'd appreciate any information, leads, advice - anyone can give us. Thank you.
sincerly,
BakersRoost

[pmisaber]

What a great story. Several board members have had similar good fortune and some have even gotten their stoves at no cost (not me though). If you can post a picture it should be easy for members of the forum to tell you which model you have. Also a picture of the damaged areas might help folks give you advice about repair.The white thermostat dials were used on stoves equipped with the Robertshaw 2200 S thermostat. That thermostat was standard equipment on some later model B stoves and model BZ stoves. The model B stoves had cast metal stove tops with slightly raised ridges running perpendicular to the openings for the burners. They lacked an opening for the stovetop pilot. The model BZ stovetop is flat and has an opening for the stovetop pilot located centrally between the burners and thermowell.

[tux_sf]

There should be an aluminum tag screwed in to the front of the thermowell (the deep well burner in the back right corner of the stove top). This has the model number & serial number. If you do some searching on the Board there are several discussions of dating based on the tag (see [url="http://www.hostboard.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=7954&t=614"]http://www.hostboard.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=7954&t=614[/url] ). In order to see it, you can remove the front right burner grate & drip pan. I have a B as well & couldn't really read mine when it was in place. It is held in with a single screw. I removed the burner (it just lifts out) & unscrewed the tag so I could clean it & get a closer look.

Parts come up regularly on eBay, so if you go there you can probably find the replacements you need. If you don't 'do' eBay, there are some places that sell parts around. Many are listed on the chamberstoves.net site that our board owner here also maintains. He is also a good source for reprints of the owner's manual & recipe books that you will want to get!

--Danny

[Todd W. White]

[b][i]CONGRATS & WELCOME TO THE CHAMBERS FAMILY![/b][/i]

You're going to need the Service Manual and Idle Hour Cookbook (doubles as an Operation Manual) for your "new" treasure - they're really essential.

They're available from either Sam or I. Let us know what you need.

Happy cooking with the gas turned [b][i]OFF![/i][/b]

[bakersroost]

Thank you so much for information on how to find the model number, there it was on that plate just like you said it would be. It is: 15BZ4
I think that means the it's a BZ stove? I am trying to find more information. I briefly scanned an article on it last night and now can't find the article.
(the internet is frustrating me).
could someone tell me the link pretty please?
Thank u

[Kitzig]

There are many articles and you can find a link to most of them on Todd's site. [url="http://www.chamberstoves.net/"]http://www.chamberstoves.net/[/url]

You can also find different articles at: [url="http://chambersvirtualconvention.com/"]http://chambersvirtualconvention.com/[/url]

Great recipes for Chambers stoves at:
[url="http://www.ichef.com/clubs/203/"]http://www.ichef.com/clubs/203/[/url]

And an email list at:
[url="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crts/"]http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crts/[/url]

Congrats. BZ models are very popular on this site. I have been looking for one, but I have not found the right one yet.

Lori G.

[pmisaber]

A BZ and all the pots for a dollar!!! Fantastic. If you use the search function of the board and enter BZ you will find other threads that talk about this model. According to the experts (like Sam, Todd, RobbiQuest and others) who frequent this board they were produced for a bit less than a year around 1949.

[Ms V]

All the pots meaning which ones?

I still love the looks of my C the best.

Double the offer reminds me of our past band concert. Our conductor was having such a good time he figured we could do another hours worth. We groaned and our drummer said Well we only got $3 dollars in the bucket, and our conductor said, "that'll work"...v

[RobbiQuest]

Roost, if you can take pictures of the parts you need and post on this site, some of us that have extra parts can check to see if we 'em.

Pictures are worth a thousand words...

<font color="#FFFFFF" size="1">[ October 03, 2006 09:12 AM: Message edited by: RobbiQuest ]</font>

[jsrose]

Oh my gosh! A BZ for a dollar?

If you spend much more time on this site, you'll see that it's one of the more desirable stoves with the looks of the 40s and the function of the 50s - one of those being that you can fairly easily switch between natural gas and propane.

If you decide you don't like it, post it here. I'm pretty sure that someone will give you twice what you paid for it.

Good luck,

Jack