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Thread Number: 70610
/ Tag: Classified Ad Finds
FREE Kelvinator 'fridge |
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Post# 935627 5/1/2017 at 05:47 (2,542 days old) by goatfarmer  (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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Post# 935686 , Reply# 2 5/1/2017 at 14:59 (2,541 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area) |
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We had one of these in our basement until it stopped working sometime in the 70's. My dad had got it used sometime in the early 60's. It was replaced with the '47 Frigidaire which I still have. | ||
| Post# 935688 , Reply# 3 5/1/2017 at 15:14 (2,541 days old) by ken (NYS) | ||
Very close to my grandmother's 1941 Kelvinator which I now have in the collection. Only fridge she ever had. She had a big chest freezer in the backroom. Never any repairs except for a new door gasket. One for free above is rare in that its a left door swing.
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Post# 935692 , Reply# 4 5/1/2017 at 15:33 (2,541 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay) |
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 We had a similar fridge for a period of time beginning in the late '60s. It was yellow. I liked the clunky sound it made when it ran. My parents got it for free from someone, and at the time it provided much needed extra space since our daily driver in the kitchen was still the '49 Westinghouse. The Kelvinator became a roommate to the '61 Tru Cold freezer in the basement.
I think it was after my mom took $100 of her own money and bought a used '65 Signature frost free model from a co-worker (as one would expect, it was a noisy doggy fridge that the rest of us hated, but that's what my dad got for being such a penny pincher about practical stuff) that the Kelvinator ended up with our next door neighbor.
I thought the tilt-out bin on these Kelvinator models was a good use of otherwise wasted space, and the door handle mechanism was a better design than that of its Westinghouse contemporaries (whose wasn't?). | ||
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Post# 935754 , Reply# 5 5/1/2017 at 22:14 (2,541 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.) |
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| Post# 935761 , Reply# 6 5/1/2017 at 22:57 (2,541 days old) by ken (NYS) | ||
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John
I believe the Kelvinator uses R12 but I'll take a look and report back. I didn't actually read the description in the ad for the free one until just now. Poster says they don't think it works. I contacted them to see if they would be interested in sending me the crisper drawer and glass over it if no one contacts them for the fridge. They were missing from mine when I got it. Link is to more pics of mine.
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Post# 935936 , Reply# 7 5/3/2017 at 00:19 (2,540 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.) |
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