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Thread Number: 48801
Show me your GE Combination, I'll show you mine |
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| Post# 706777 10/2/2013 at 14:09 (3,856 days old) by agitatorboogie (Denver) | ||
Several weeks ago, I picked this PINK GE COMBINATION REFRIGERATOR FREEZER up at an estate sale for only $40. The people at the estate told me that it was used as a secondary fridge with no problems. It was even plugged in during the sale but there were no takers. To my surprise, people working the sale cheered when I said I would take the fridge. Kinda crazy. Anyways, it now resides in my garage. I plan to use it as my primary fridge once I remodel my place. Here are the pics!
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| Post# 706778 , Reply# 1 10/2/2013 at 14:10 (3,856 days old) by agitatorboogie (Denver) | ||
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Post# 706794 , Reply# 12 10/2/2013 at 14:48 (3,856 days old) by Pulltostart  (Mobile, AL) |
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Post# 706826 , Reply# 13 10/2/2013 at 16:34 (3,856 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay) |
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 OMG! I'm not a fan of pink but if I saw that for $40 I wouldn't have thought twice about it -- presuming it's a "Frost Guard" model. I love the swing-out shelves as opposed to the revolving ones, and bottom freezer is my preference.
I've posted pix of my '57 Combination here a bazillion times. It has been over-exposed to say the least.
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| Post# 706854 , Reply# 15 10/2/2013 at 18:09 (3,856 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
I Think....
....That's a '59. It has both the swing-out shelves (as opposed to the turnaround ones seen on '57s and '58s), and it has the roll-out ice service for the freezer.
I hope you appreciate that roll-out ice service - the major drawback to the two previous years was a very hard-to-access teensy little shelf that held four ice trays, and was a damn knuckle-buster at defrost time. Hopefully you have none of that aggravation; I think '59 was the year GE went to all-frostless on its upper-series models. I second what Tom says about keeping tall stuff away from the serpentine coils in the fridge compartment; anything touching them will freeze. A two-liter pop bottle would be an example. | ||
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Post# 706856 , Reply# 16 10/2/2013 at 18:21 (3,856 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay) |
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Serpentine Coil The coil on my fridge has a gap in the middle, which allows for tall bottles to be stored upright. This is in addition to the two fold-away bottle cradles on the side of the top shelf.
I wonder if GE decided that bottles could be stored in the door shelves and did away with the gap (I use the bottom door shelf exclusively for that purpose), or perhaps due to the additional cubic feet of storage, more coil was needed.
Here's a shot of my Combo with the coil visible: 
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| Post# 706871 , Reply# 17 10/2/2013 at 19:23 (3,856 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
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Ralph:
You're absolutely right, but human nature is just to shove a bottle upright on the shelf.
On our '58, my mother failed to put a bottle on the fold-down rack securely; it somehow fell off and broke (this was the era of glass bottles). This was very shortly after the fridge was purchased, and she never trusted or used the fold-down shelves again in all the thirty or so years she owned the unit. If she found that one of us kids had put a bottle on "those things," she moved it. Weird. | ||
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Post# 706878 , Reply# 18 10/2/2013 at 19:40 (3,856 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay) |
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I have two bottles in those cradles more or less at all times. You do need to make sure they've been placed in them securely.
Tom, I think I read in my service manual for the '57 models that the compressor should cut out when the coil temp reaches 13 below. They may have bumped it lower for the larger, entirely frost free models that came out a couple of years later. | ||
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Post# 706885 , Reply# 19 10/2/2013 at 20:07 (3,856 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Cool Refrigerator And a good price, is it a Frost Guard Freezer ? it will say on the freezer handle, on almost all Combination models you still had to defrost the freezer.
Before I would install this ref in my kitchen I would clean it up underneath and replace the condenser fan motor [ if not already done ] and then let it run in the garage for several months and try to use it as much as possible while carefully motioning the temperature in the Ref and freezer sections to be sure that it is really working correctly. We see a lot of older refrigerators in homes that have been regulated to basements etc that do not work properly. | ||
| Post# 706890 , Reply# 20 10/2/2013 at 21:10 (3,856 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada) | ||
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Post# 706917 , Reply# 21 10/2/2013 at 23:39 (3,856 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay) |
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Frost Guard? Yes! Take a look at reply #7/photo #8. At lower right on the top of the freezer door/handle you can see it.
I'm surprised GE didn't make a bigger deal of this with easily visible "Frost Guard" verbiage on the front of the fridge. After all, it was a major improvement that eliminated a much dreaded household task. They got around to it on later models, but I don't know exactly with which model year.
I monitored the temperature in my Combo for about three years until the battery on the digital thermometer went dead. I used a glass of water in the warmest area of the fridge (bottom shelf toward the front) and kept the temperature probe in it. | ||
| Post# 706918 , Reply# 22 10/2/2013 at 23:47 (3,856 days old) by Maytagbear (N.E. Ohio) | ||
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Nice catch! Enjoy. It is a diamond in the rough. Lawrence/Maytagbear | ||
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