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Frigidaire Refrigerator - Montreal and Vintage Red Frigidaire Double Oven (Philadelphia)
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Post# 829264   6/23/2015 at 21:30 (3,222 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia )        

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1) Vintage Red Frigidaire Double Oven (Philadelphia) - philadelphia.craigslist.org/app/5...

2) For the Canadian crowd: Réfrigérateur Roy ( frigidaire, frigo ) vintage rétro - $300 (montreal) - montreal.en.craigslist.ca/app/503...

(not sure if 2 is of interest in terms of age or rarity)...


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Post# 829282 , Reply# 1   6/23/2015 at 23:10 (3,222 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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That refrigerator is beautiful!

Have not seen the brand Roy (?) come up before.


Post# 829288 , Reply# 2   6/24/2015 at 01:00 (3,222 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)        

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They were made by Hupp Canada and are Gibson clones. It was listed once on Craigslist but was relisted daily on Kijiji with the price going down about $10 a day! I should have an interest in these as they were made close to my hometown and I know some former workers of this factory. But, I just don't like these much.

 

I guess it was sold but I kept the larger pics from the Kijiji ads on my computer.  I was wondering if this fridge really came with stainless doors and so did Paul! Roy wasn't known for making very high end stuff!

 

One of the pics shows the "Frost Clear" badge that Roy used on it's fridges and I think Gibson used that name too.


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Post# 829325 , Reply# 3   6/24/2015 at 09:15 (3,221 days old) by firedome (Binghamton NY & Lake Champlain VT)        
the ROY fridge

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almost looks like it was painted with high gloss gray metallic paint. It's a bit darker than stainless, and the finish looks darn near perfect, not likely after 55 years!

Post# 829349 , Reply# 4   6/24/2015 at 11:18 (3,221 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)        
Gibson Refrigerator

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These were pretty crappy refs, just seeing this brings back all kinds of bad memory's about fixing these poor excuses of a refrigerator.

 

The freezers were never cold enough while the ref section always liked to freeze things.


Post# 829365 , Reply# 5   6/24/2015 at 12:48 (3,221 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia )        
Frozen Roy Boy

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Reminds me of our last refrigerator this apartment complex just replaced - the refrigerator would freeze things in the back, on the first shelves. You had to keep food forward and leave a space, making many cu.ft. less available.



Post# 829366 , Reply# 6   6/24/2015 at 12:55 (3,221 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)        

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That often happens with tired refrigerators which run almost constantly. Their freezer can't get cold enough and the temperature in the refrigerator section tends to balance with the freezer temp (because of the long running time) and be too cold.


Post# 829431 , Reply# 7   6/24/2015 at 20:36 (3,221 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia )        

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As it turned out, PhilR...after many months of this happening, a service call revealed there was a sheet of ice to remove. It had built up below the freezer bottom compartment and the top, inner panel(where the light is mounted). Bizarre. This was a frost-free refrigerator, too! The sheet of ice that covered the entire area of between aforementioned panels was thick. We have a small, but better Whirlpool.



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