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Post by tommya11en on Oct 5, 2022 4:10:52 GMT
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Post by tommya11en on Oct 5, 2022 4:23:57 GMT
Ok, so I don't know how busy you guys are but I fill my days with work. I have to ration my time for "fun" things like working on old friges. I steel as much time as I can but its never enough with these things. Run time, off time, does it have a stuck float? Or obstruction, is there a mechanical problem,usually comes down to a float problem. It can take a lot of time to work on/assess these machines. I like the DR'S because they try to kick my ass and im always up for that challenge. Sometimes I win, sometimes I loose but I fought it to the end. I hope thats what how all the members here look at it. Its a challenge and I hate to loose.
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Post by turbokinetic on Oct 5, 2022 10:39:51 GMT
Ok, so I don't know how busy you guys are but I fill my days with work. I have to ration my time for "fun" things like working on old friges. I steel as much time as I can but its never enough with these things. Run time, off time, does it have a stuck float? Or obstruction, is there a mechanical problem,usually comes down to a float problem. It can take a lot of time to work on/assess these machines. I like the DR'S because they try to kick my ass and im always up for that challenge. Sometimes I win, sometimes I loose but I fought it to the end. I hope thats what how all the members here look at it. Its a challenge and I hate to loose. I think a lot of us face the same thing. I do this as a hobby while working for another industry all together. I work on large projects for weeks or months at a time for my real job. Sometimes I have lots of time for fridges, other times not. It is what it is. I don't think anyone will judge you for not always posting constantly. When I was a new member here, others often worried about me when I would go missing for long periods of time but now nobody worries anymore 'cause I always come back. How is the glass door fridge coming along?
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Post by tommya11en on Oct 6, 2022 1:54:38 GMT
Haven't had a lot of time for it yet. Headed to georgia to pick up a hvac rooftop unit for the machine shop. Hard to do precision work with 30-40 degree temp. Changes during the day. I used it in Monday, then yesterday evening I had a little time so I disconnected the cap. Block on it and connected a start and run cap. Just so I dident even have to worry if that was working or not. Turned it on and it started running. Was quiet and then after a minute or so it rattled for a couple seconds then got quiet again and started running. It went down to about 11 degrees and dident cycle off. The spring on the temp. Adjustment has gotten weak over the years. I think that is a pretty common thing. Swapped that out with another spring. A little Adjustment and it cycled. Turned it off until I get time to play with it some more. Seems to be a pretty sound machine. Got pretty lucky for a DR-3 LOL
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Post by turbokinetic on Oct 6, 2022 20:02:01 GMT
It is indeed lucky to find a good DR3 which hasn't been burned out by a faulty capacitor box or start relay. And yes I fully understand how hard it is to do precision work with bad temp fluctuations. That makes more of a difference than many would realize!
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Post by tommya11en on Dec 15, 2022 17:24:54 GMT
so, after a couple months running, i've started working on the cabinet. i started with taking the glass out of the door to clean between the glass. ill post some pics. this is obveously a factory made unit. after removing the inside chrome ring you can see the inside glass is held in place with small wooden stops. between the inside and middle glass there are wooden stops with a piece of bakelite breaker strip screwed to the wood frame and the same between the middle glass and the outside glass. there is no sealant on any of the glass. this leads to a question for all of you guys. what do you think i should do putting it back togather ? i've thought maybe sealent on the inside glass only ? maybe order a 3 pane window for it ? seal all with a vent tube in the cavity somewhere ? let me know what you think. ill post some pics of the disassembly.
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Post by turbokinetic on Dec 15, 2022 23:51:18 GMT
That's looking good! Ideally you would want the void in between the panes to be air tight and have some concealed desiccant in the space to prevent internal condensation. Modern multi-pane glass has a low conductivity gas such as argon in the void. Argon cuts the conducted heat by over 30% compared to air.
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Post by tommya11en on May 25, 2023 5:04:56 GMT
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Post by tommya11en on May 25, 2023 5:14:23 GMT
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Post by tommya11en on May 25, 2023 5:19:26 GMT
Its done. Here's a couple pics. Used the original outside pane of glass then put weatherstripping between that and a triple pane glass and purged with argon between them and used silicone to seal the triple pane glass on the inside.
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Post by turbokinetic on May 25, 2023 10:18:10 GMT
Its done. Here's a couple pics. Used the original outside pane of glass then put weatherstripping between that and a triple pane glass and purged with argon between them and used silicone to seal the triple pane glass on the inside. Your door turned out very nice! Hopefully that design will prevent condensation between the panes, as well as externally. Sincerely, David
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Post by ckfan on May 26, 2023 11:44:34 GMT
That’s gorgeous.
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Post by tommya11en on Jun 6, 2023 0:07:17 GMT
I'll post some more pics when I get it in a better setting. Thanks for the likes !
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karl
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Post by karl on Nov 13, 2023 2:27:49 GMT
I saw a beautiful 3 door monitor with glass doors. It was $15,000. It looked really nice. If I had an extra 15,000 I wasn't doing anything with, and the space I would have bought it, but sadly I did not.
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Post by douro20 on Nov 13, 2023 2:55:15 GMT
That's looking good! Ideally you would want the void in between the panes to be air tight and have some concealed desiccant in the space to prevent internal condensation. Modern multi-pane glass has a low conductivity gas such as argon in the void. Argon cuts the conducted heat by over 30% compared to air. They used to put thick film heaters in glass display case doors before the invention of low-E glass. You still occasionally see them.
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