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Thread Number: 54709
60s Frigidaire Frost-proof in Texas |
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| Post# 771054 7/15/2014 at 13:03 (3,565 days old) by bluejay (Havre de Grace, MD) | ||
 This looks to be in fantastic shape, albeit at a steep premium...
Seller claims it's from '62, but it looks like it's from a few years later. CLICK HERE TO GO TO bluejay's LINK on eBay | ||
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Post# 771185 , Reply# 1 7/15/2014 at 20:57 (3,565 days old) by combo52  (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Frost-Proof Frigidaire | ||
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Post# 771269 , Reply# 3 7/16/2014 at 08:23 (3,565 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Newer Style FD Frost Proof Bottom Freezer Refrigerators | ||
| Post# 771305 , Reply# 4 7/16/2014 at 15:00 (3,564 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada) | ||
 I wish Frigidaire sold fridges with vertical evaporators here but they stopped making bottom-freezers in 1966 and they were the small 16 cu-ft Imperial version with the evaporator still mounted in the freezer floor. This model had the same style "w-shaped" doors as your 1967 Food Life Preserver but lacked the electric door opener. The Canadian version had two foot pedals instead! It must have been a bit confusing but I'd really like to find one of these!
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Post# 771353 , Reply# 5 7/16/2014 at 18:38 (3,564 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay) |
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 Re: John's comments above about learning the hard way, I remember the two early '60s bottom freezer Coldspots I was familiar with both had vertical evaporators, but they drained directly onto the freezer floor, which had subtle depressions in it to channel the defrost water to a center drain.
The floors had heaters under them that activated during defrost and kept the water from freezing on its way to the drain. These heaters eventually failed, and a glacier would begin to form at the rear of the freezer. I saw a Sears repair man retrofit one of these freezers with a heated trough assembly that routed the water directly into (over) the drain hole. When my own Coldspot developed this problem, I got the retrofitting kit from Sears and did the same job myself.
Energy efficiency was the last thing on anyone's mind back then, and frost free refrigerator-freezers from that period are a prime example of such. | ||
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