On 15/10/2011 9:42 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:22:16 -0400, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
>
>> On 15/10/2011 12:03 PM, ImStillMags wrote:
>>> On Oct 14, 7:18 pm, > wrote:
>>>> I am getting my new range tomorrow and was cleaning out the storage
>>>> drawer and removing all the stuff I keep on top of the
>>>> backboard/splashboard shelf - which my new range will not have because
>>>> it's curved - and pulled it out a bit to see if I could easily move it.
>>>> Well it looks like I need an electrician. The current power looks
>>>> hardwired. There is a thick wire coming out of the wall (no receptacle)
>>>> and the new one comes with some new code power cord that's been in
>>>> effect since 2000. The free installation that comes from the vendor is
>>>> just to put it in place and plug it in. Shit. Oh well.
>>>
>>> How old is the hardwire wire that comes out of the wall. Why can't
>>> it be used to hardwire the new stove?
>>> Seems to me you could unhook the old stove from the hard wire and then
>>> use it for the new one.
>>> Problem solved.
>>
>>
>> Stoves used to come with a wiring block which you attached the 220 wires
>> in the cable that came out of the floor or wall.
>
> They still do.
>
>> Now stoves come with cables and 220 plugs.
>
> No they do not. You need to buy the cable separately and connect it
> to the stove yourself, it connects the same as the hard wire.
>

I bought a new one about two years ago. It came with the cord attached.