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Antique AMC refrigerator - $100 (Kettering) |
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Post# 933230   4/18/2017 at 22:05 (2,558 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia )   |   | |
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Post# 933276 , Reply# 1   4/18/2017 at 23:58 (2,558 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)   |   | |
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Post# 933332 , Reply# 2   4/19/2017 at 09:36 (2,557 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia )   |   | |
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Post# 933380 , Reply# 3   4/19/2017 at 13:45 (2,557 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)   |   | |
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I'm betting all the metal used in manufacturing that fridge was sourced from the Pittsburgh area.
With the old Westinghouse, the handle failure was all about physics. A design flaw had solid metal pins fitted into hollow sleeves extending from upper and lower pivot points. The sleeves eventually wore thin and broke (it actually looked like they were torn) due to the stress of simultaneous rotation and pulling. I'd say that door was opened about 250,000 times during the years it served as our main household fridge. Admirable, but not nearly as smart a design as its GE contemporaries that employed some sort of feather-touch spring loaded system that didn't require yanking like the Westinghouse. I've never seen a single-door GE from the same period with a broken handle mechanism.
I just noticed another reason why I'd take a pass on this fridge. The door goes all the way to the bottom. No kick plate. It's a nice clean look, but I'd be hitting my shoe more often than not when I opened the door. I learned to despise cheap modern refrigerators with almost zero clearance below the door when I lived in rentals. This post was last edited 04/19/2017 at 16:26 |