Thread Number: 81688
/ Tag: Refrigerators
Troubleshooting Antique Refrigerator - Monitor Top DR D2... |
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Post# 1057000 , Reply# 1   1/9/2020 at 10:50 (1,567 days old) by jeff_adelphi (Adelphi, Maryland, USA)   |   | |
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I'm happy the GE made a safe trip to your place. I know it's in good hands now, and I look forward to seeing what it's problems are. It was restored about 20 years ago, maybe just a repaint, and worked well until last year. It always ran fine, but stopped cooling one day. I watched the video you posted, and the chattering relay is a new problem, the move probably caused the already bad connection to fail.
Hope you can find a use for the Frigidaire motors and evaporator coil I sent along. They were saved from a junked ref. years ago, and just could not throw them out. Jeff |
Post# 1057201 , Reply# 3   1/11/2020 at 00:03 (1,565 days old) by turbokinetic (Northport, Alabama USA)   |   | |
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Video is long but contains a lot of info...
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Post# 1057232 , Reply# 4   1/11/2020 at 08:13 (1,565 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)   |   | |
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Post# 1057291 , Reply# 6   1/11/2020 at 20:59 (1,564 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Wow, David that was interesting, it was fascinating to see you check out this inoperative GE MT.
It often seemed that some of these refs would run forever, but at least my brother Jeff won't feel like he gave up too easily.
It will be interesting to see how you fair with the Gas Servel when you get a chance to work on it sometime.
I may have to get your help with engineering a fix for our Whirlpool 29" combination transmissions, I will text you some pictures some time.
John L. |
Post# 1057407 , Reply# 8   1/12/2020 at 21:46 (1,563 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Hi David, Thanks for all the detailed analysis of how this refrigerator likely failed, I have paid very little attention to these GE Mts over my career.
I knew they went through a lot of design changes over the years they were produced, I guess it is pretty impressive that an early design like this lasted as long as it did.
This GE MT DR ref belonged to a Whirlpool trainer who was in the Baltimore region, he sold it to us when he was transferred back to Michigan 25 years ago because he knew my Brother and I liked old appliances and he did not want to move it again.
The Gas Servel was operated on natural gas, hopefully it can be converted to propane with just a different office, however some had a different burner as well for LP, I have service Manuels for the little later WP branded Servel refs, I may even have some Servel Manuels, I will do some digging.
John L. |
Post# 1057412 , Reply# 9   1/12/2020 at 22:34 (1,563 days old) by Repairguy (Danbury, Texas)   |   | |
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Post# 1057435 , Reply# 10   1/13/2020 at 06:28 (1,563 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)   |   | |
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David,
Could you please be a bit more detailed about the failures of Monitor Tops ? LOL... Just Kidding. Absolutely Brilliant dissertation. If General Electric were still a tried and true American Company, they would be fools not to hire you for design and engineering. I just love your information. Thank You for sharing. |
Post# 1057444 , Reply# 11   1/13/2020 at 08:10 (1,563 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA)   |   | |
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David - great video series on the DR! Thank you for taking the time to film, edit, and upload to YouTube. However, please don't apologize for any length of video you may publish. Your detailed analysis should take sometime and I for one appreciate you not rushing through anything.
Last week I found myself, hours later, watching the compressor rebuild of the Frigidaire M52 before I realized I needed to come back to it at a later time. Thank you for sharing, both out on YouTube but here as well! Ben |