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Interesting but non-working Frigidaire fridge |
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Post# 1020779   1/10/2019 at 22:28 (1,904 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs)   |   | |
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This was a new refrigerator on the sales floor right around the time I ended my appliance store "career" and like Jethro Bodine done grad-ee-ated the fifth grade at San Jose State. Similar to the Westinghouse "Twin Fountain" refrigerator from years earlier, this diluted and mixed concentrated frozen beverages and dispensed them. The poppy is very nice, but $750 for a fridge that runs but doesn't get cold doesn't seem like much of a bargain. Unlike most sellers believe, no refrigerant can be difficult and, if parts like an evaporator are needed, sometimes nearly impossible to repair. On ebay in Missouri. CLICK HERE TO GO TO twintubdexter's LINK on eBay This post was last edited 01/10/2019 at 23:01 |
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Post# 1020821 , Reply# 1   1/11/2019 at 14:42 (1,903 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)   |   | |
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Post# 1020840 , Reply# 2   1/11/2019 at 17:02 (1,903 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs)   |   | |
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Since my memory is pretty much shot, I'm not sure the year the seller mentions is accurate. Goatfarmer is probably correct. All I can remember was a time when almost all new Frigidaire refrigerators had handles like that. I do know that by 1981 I was appliance store history and had escaped the "backwoods country living" of San Jose for the sophistication and elegance of San Francisco's Castro and Folsom districts. |
Post# 1020861 , Reply# 3   1/11/2019 at 21:36 (1,903 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Post# 1020862 , Reply# 4   1/11/2019 at 21:42 (1,903 days old) by fan-of-fans (Florida)   |   | |
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My aunt had a 1975 Frigidaire in her house with those handles (but no dispensers). She also has one in her beach house, but it's from 1985 and the WCI era, but still has those same curved woodgrain handles. |
Post# 1020879 , Reply# 5   1/12/2019 at 05:45 (1,902 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)   |   | |
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Post# 1020895 , Reply# 6   1/12/2019 at 08:49 (1,902 days old) by estesguy (kansas)   |   | |
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Frigidaire refrigerators from GM always had the bulletproof metermiser compressor, so when they quit cooling, its likely a refrigerant leak, and often in the evaporator. Not worth the effort IMHO |
Post# 1020935 , Reply# 7   1/12/2019 at 14:17 (1,902 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs)   |   | |
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I think around 1965 Frigidaire dropped the Meter Miser jargon (at least on TOL models) in favor of the Power Capsule name. The store had this very cool display of a Power Capsule Compressor decked out with a gold bottom that lit up and rotated within a clear plastic sphere, similar to the ad. A number of these same "Bewitched" electric door refrigerators made it into the shop for one thing or another. Although I did not work on refrigeration or customer repairs, I don't ever recall seeing an actual compressor that looked like that. They were just black.
Probably just a Meter Miser in "fancy dress"
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Post# 1020936 , Reply# 8   1/12/2019 at 14:23 (1,902 days old) by RP2813 (Sannazay)   |   | |
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Post# 1020940 , Reply# 9   1/12/2019 at 15:45 (1,902 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)   |   | |
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Post# 1021014 , Reply# 11   1/13/2019 at 10:13 (1,901 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Because you didn't' draw all the crap into the shell and the compressors oil like you would if you used a piston type compressor with the shell on the low side.
This is why WP-Seeger and FD compressors were so often actually sold as vacuum pumps for refrigerator repair.
The FD compressors were durable, but I will take a WP-Seeger compressor over a FD because they were inherently balanced and ran much more quietly than a FD compressor, I always hated the rattling sound of FD compressors.
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Post# 1021033 , Reply# 12   1/13/2019 at 14:16 (1,901 days old) by twintubdexter (Palm Springs)   |   | |
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You sure sound like an expert to me. I understood exactly what you meant. The main refrigeration guy where I worked (Tommy, my dad's childhood friend) made a vacuum pump out of a traditional Meter Miser and used it on almost every major repair. I just mentioned that Power Capsule thing because I remembered that cool display the store had on the sales floor. I wish I had it today. It'd make a great centerpiece for the Thanksgiving or Christmas Day table. |
Post# 1021049 , Reply# 13   1/13/2019 at 16:18 (1,901 days old) by RP2813 (Sannazay)   |   | |
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