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Post# 1127841   9/5/2021 at 19:09 (934 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)        

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Post# 1127842 , Reply# 1   9/5/2021 at 19:22 (934 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)        

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That do be one large fridge!

Did these behemoths have one or two compressors? Seems like much work if only the one had to deal with both freezer and fridge.


Post# 1127843 , Reply# 2   9/5/2021 at 19:38 (934 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)        

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Have never understood why so many want a huge freezer joined to perhaps equally large fridge.

It is far easier and energy economic IMHO to just go with separate chest or stand alone freezer somewhere. Then just have a normal sized fridge/freezer in kitchen.

Every time that freezer or fridge door is opened cold air just tumbles out, and warm air goes in.. If home is filled with (*ahem*) young or others who feel need to stand in front of an open door freezer or fridge "just looking", it creates more work for that poor unit.


Post# 1127846 , Reply# 3   9/5/2021 at 20:14 (934 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)        

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Must be why the industry never stuck with that "only a short-time" novel design...

To think that it ever existed when fridges lost their rounded upper-corners, then had to be self-defrosting, and have another freezer door located somewhere other than just over the top...



-- Dave


Post# 1127848 , Reply# 4   9/5/2021 at 21:28 (934 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area)        

The largest I ever saw in person was an Admiral Duplex that was 48" wide. It was Coppertone, and belonged to friends of the family.

 


Post# 1127860 , Reply# 5   9/6/2021 at 06:47 (934 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)        
Extra Large mid to later 60s Admiral SXS

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Indeed the largest one of these I ever saw was a 48" wide one as well.

 

This are a great idea and actually more efficient than two separate units because of the shared wall between the ref and freezer sections [ this is why town houses cost less to heat ]

 

There are still lots of 48"wide built-in SXS sold, GE, KA, Viking and Sub-Zero to name a few, lots of our customers have these nice refrigerators.

 

This admiral would only have one compressor and is a cycle defrost design for the fresh food evaporator like many refs of this age including all of the Kelvinator 48" SXSs.

 

The down side to this ref is Admirals were not really well built { lots of plastic breaks including the door liners ] and power use would be high due to poor insulation and power hungry compressor and fan motors etc.

 

John L.


Post# 1127867 , Reply# 6   9/6/2021 at 09:24 (933 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)        

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There was a thread in the last year or so talking about Admiral Duplex...as I recall they had both cycle defrost and no-frost in the 60s.

Post# 1127894 , Reply# 7   9/6/2021 at 16:09 (933 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)        

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The condensor coils are probably most likely behind the front grill, as I saw a behind shot devoid of even any back-mounted type, given the need to place such a huge unit flush against a wall...

 

So despite Admiral's condensor coils notoriously rear-mounted both visiby on the exterior of the back on some units, boasting yards of black coils, and on other units, under neath although where they would be hard to clean, (using a brush or a vacuum cleaner crevice tool) maybe it was recognized how heavy this would be to move, therefore the coils are placed more conveniently undrneath in the front...

 

 

 

-- Dave


Post# 1127948 , Reply# 8   9/7/2021 at 08:17 (933 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)        

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IIRC Admiral Duplex fridges had wheels to allow ease of movement.

www.manualslib.com/manual...


There were at one time four sizes of Duplex fridges:

33", 35 3/4", 41" and 48 1/4"



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