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Thread Number: 41977
1940's Wooden Air Conditioner? |
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| Post# 618384 8/19/2012 at 14:49 (4,291 days old) by bellalaundry (St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada) | ||
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| Post# 618386 , Reply# 1 8/19/2012 at 14:50 (4,291 days old) by bellalaundry (St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada) | ||
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| Post# 618388 , Reply# 2 8/19/2012 at 14:51 (4,291 days old) by bellalaundry (St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada) | ||
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Post# 618390 , Reply# 3 8/19/2012 at 14:54 (4,291 days old) by petek  (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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| Post# 618391 , Reply# 4 8/19/2012 at 14:54 (4,291 days old) by bellalaundry (St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada) | ||
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Post# 618393 , Reply# 5 8/19/2012 at 14:56 (4,291 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Post# 618396 , Reply# 6 8/19/2012 at 15:06 (4,291 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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| Post# 618400 , Reply# 7 8/19/2012 at 15:26 (4,291 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs) | ||
this Frigidaire is soooooo portable | ||
| Post# 618418 , Reply# 8 8/19/2012 at 16:14 (4,291 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
I'd Be Willing to Bet.....
....That the Frigidaire's cabinet was woodgrained steel. General Motors had lots of experience in that area, because of car dashboards and other woodgrained interior trim. That photo makes the wood (or woodgrain) on the front of the unit look like it might be (or represent) reverse diamond-matched burled walnut veneer. Even in 1938, that would have been an expensive thing to do in real wood.
Not that there WEREN'T air conditioners with wooden cabinets. I remember seeing a Philco unit in Atlanta's Cache Antiques back in the '90s. It was more the size and format we're accustomed to seeing today. But it was no more extravagant than one of the TV cabinets of the time. | ||
| Post# 618430 , Reply# 9 8/19/2012 at 16:50 (4,291 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs) | ||
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metal sounds reasonable... | ||
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Post# 618456 , Reply# 10 8/19/2012 at 17:28 (4,291 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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| Post# 618459 , Reply# 11 8/19/2012 at 17:33 (4,291 days old) by statenislandgwm () | ||
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@petek I think I know what you're talking about and I believe it is a "Packard Bell". | ||
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Post# 618897 , Reply# 12 8/21/2012 at 04:43 (4,290 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc) |
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Liked the older "chicken head" knobs of equipment from that time--now those "chicken Head" knobs are making a comeback on TUBED new Guitar amps!COOL MAN! | ||
| Post# 618956 , Reply# 13 8/21/2012 at 11:45 (4,289 days old) by kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.) | ||
How it works??? So no need of vents or plumbing... how can this Frigidaire work without?
Someone can explain this to me? Thanks This post was last edited 08/21/2012 at 12:27 | ||
| Post# 618990 , Reply# 14 8/21/2012 at 14:47 (4,289 days old) by 2packs4sure (houston) | ||
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My Packard Bell is just an early window unit I've never seen in person one of those early console room A/C's. Mine is a very early window unit with a wood cabinet. Bellalaundry's unit is obviously a dry climate evaporative cooler. 
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| Post# 618992 , Reply# 15 8/21/2012 at 14:52 (4,289 days old) by 2packs4sure (houston) | ||
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In response to kenmoreguy89 you'll notice in the Frigidaire ad it's next to a window. It HAD to at minimum exhaust the condenser out the window. Whether it had any provision for a fresh air intake is impossible to tell. 
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| Post# 619009 , Reply# 17 8/21/2012 at 15:59 (4,289 days old) by kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.) | ||
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Thanks got it.
So actually the Frigidaire needed an hose or a connector to vent warm air from condenser outside the window?
The ad says no plumbing or piping needed.....so I was just wondering how it could work without even an exhaust pipe/hose or connection to exhaust warm air or eliminate the heat produced, so for piping they ment water or gas pipes, not connection to blow warm air out.... We had once a water air conditioned in the old jewelwry shop of my father. I remember when I was a kid I used to play with it by putting on some paper sheets and make they fly, you know the boredom to stay there witout something to play with and my mom screaming at me to get away from it. "You will get a flu get away from it", the air coming out of it was very very cold and it's radiator always was completely covered with a thick white layer of condensed moisture, it worked very well. Then when he got a second shop we had the "wall type" ac, with the fan and radiator boxes outside for gas to get cool. We had 5 of them for the whole shop. Now in the Antiques shop that we've recently opened we've a portable one with a flexible hose vent warm outside, it is okay since the space is small and works fairly well.... This post was last edited 08/21/2012 at 16:27 | ||
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