Hi i just picked up a 1933 CA-2-A16 its in great shape!

It certainly is a nice looking ca . 
Hate to burst your bubble but how good the out side looks is not necessarily  how it is on the inside! 
1 heater 
2 wiring 
3 non condescending gas needing purged

(Please )   look THROUGH  the ca section before asking questions so many are answered there !!!!  We are glade to have you here all we ask is is do a little research thanks ! 

Yes i agree, i hope its just the ncg's.  I have learned a lot on the site already in two days so i will remove the top and get into it.  I have found lots of info and will keep questions to a minimal.  i am very handy and mechanically inclined but i may get stumped as i am not so good with refrigeration.  I did have one question though, i have not found any pics on utube or here that show if the inside top comes off of the bottom of the lid when you remove it.  I assume it does and thats how you access the that area under the compressor?  also not sure if the float is damaged or bad if i can get to that but i will keep diggin.  Thanks! 

Hi all, i am finally getting around to diagnosing my CA and why it doesn't run for very long. As i am reading the CA threads i understand that i need to check the heater. I used my multimer to check the ohms and i wanted to see if am doing this correctly. I set it to ohms and with the fridge in the off position and unplugged i put each meter prong on each the two plug prongs at the relay. I read that you need to test "across the plug pins" but wasn't sure it that meant to cross one of the meter prongs across both of the plug pins or the way i did it one on each plug pin. The reading didn't change and was at 1 on the meter. From what i read it should read anywhere from 850 to 1000 ohms. Questions - did do the test correctly and if so does this mean my heater is bad? secondly i need to bleed out the NCG's and it looks as though i will need to do this with a non running machine. I did buy the Briston tool but seems like i should have a running heater first.

Any advice?

Peppers...

Hi Pepper. There is a glitch in how mobile devices encode pictures, versus how Web browsers render them. 

If you open the picture in a video editing software, and make any modification to the picture; the re-save it right-side up - it should display correctly.

In other words, if you upload it directly from a phone, it will look sideways. If you open the picture in a video editing program and then re-save it first; it will probably display upright.