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Post by referman on Aug 28, 2017 5:41:22 GMT
New guy here. I'll try to be good. Twenty years ago I was given an old GE refrigerator. It has sat in my garage ever since. I came across an ad for a monitor top and wondered what my flat top specifications were. Ebay ads from the like of Life and Look showed the unit is a 1936 five cubic foot K5 with the black base and vertical crease in the door and lower apron. Expecting the sealed compressor unit, I took a look under and lo-and-behold, a belt driven compressor with a missing motor. It looks like the condenser goes into a receiver, a tap goes from the receiver to a very small capiliary tube, which goes up the back of the cabinet to the evaporator, then back down to the compressor suction. There is a finned condenser in line with a fan driven by the missing motor. I have enclosed pictures of the refrigerator. Metal tag on the refrigeration unit: CM32A-16. 1-5/8# SO2. Is this a worthless odd ball or a gem? Thank you for your help.      |
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Post by cablehack on Aug 28, 2017 11:53:20 GMT
The CM was non hermetic, and from ads I've seen, it appears to have been sold around 1934. See the brochure here which shows a CM35 members.iinet.net.au/~cool386/ge_service/1934sales.pdfOnce the Scotch Yoke compressor was developed the Flat Tops went hermetic. Certainly a part of GE refrigeration history so definitely not worthless. The only other non hermetic GE machine to appear on the forum that I can remember was a CB. |
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Post by blackhorse on Aug 29, 2017 4:01:12 GMT
I will have to check, but I think I have that condensing unit (no cabinet) but it's labelled "Fairbanks Morse". Has an adjustable expansion valve and a tube evaporator though.....
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Post by elec573 on Aug 29, 2017 4:21:46 GMT
I have seen them on craglist and eBay so they are still around.
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Post by allan on Aug 30, 2017 1:01:10 GMT
New guy here. I'll try to be good. Twenty years ago I was given an old GE refrigerator. It has sat in my garage ever since. I came across an ad for a monitor top and wondered what my flat top specifications were. Ebay ads from the like of Life and Look showed the unit is a 1936 five cubic foot K5 with the black base and vertical crease in the door and lower apron. Expecting the sealed compressor unit, I took a look under and lo-and-behold, a belt driven compressor with a missing motor. It looks like the condenser goes into a receiver, a tap goes from the receiver to a very small capiliary tube, which goes up the back of the cabinet to the evaporator, then back down to the compressor suction. There is a finned condenser in line with a fan driven by the missing motor. I have enclosed pictures of the refrigerator. Metal tag on the refrigeration unit: CM32A-16. 1-5/8# SO2. Is this a worthless odd ball or a gem? Thank you for your help. Very nice freezer door! That is the first time I ever saw a capillary tube with a receiver tank!! I wonder if that big receiver has some type of float?? |
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Post by blackhorse on Aug 30, 2017 12:34:03 GMT
New guy here. I'll try to be good. Twenty years ago I was given an old GE refrigerator. It has sat in my garage ever since. I came across an ad for a monitor top and wondered what my flat top specifications were. Ebay ads from the like of Life and Look showed the unit is a 1936 five cubic foot K5 with the black base and vertical crease in the door and lower apron. Expecting the sealed compressor unit, I took a look under and lo-and-behold, a belt driven compressor with a missing motor. It looks like the condenser goes into a receiver, a tap goes from the receiver to a very small capiliary tube, which goes up the back of the cabinet to the evaporator, then back down to the compressor suction. There is a finned condenser in line with a fan driven by the missing motor. I have enclosed pictures of the refrigerator. Metal tag on the refrigeration unit: CM32A-16. 1-5/8# SO2. Is this a worthless odd ball or a gem? Thank you for your help. Very nice freezer door! That is the first time I ever saw a capillary tube with a receiver tank!! I wonder if that big receiver has some type of float?? I wonder if the capillary is original. There might have been a float valve under the top like the hermetic flat tops? |
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Post by ckfan on Aug 30, 2017 13:56:07 GMT
That is the exact same model I have...except it isn't. I think that somehow the original scotch yoke hermetic died and somebody got creative and put a belt drive unit down there. It looks just like mine except for the oily bits.
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Post by blackhorse on Aug 30, 2017 21:27:02 GMT
That is the exact same model I have...except it isn't. I think that somehow the original scotch yoke hermetic died and somebody got creative and put a belt drive unit down there. It looks just like mine except for the oily bits. I have one with that exact same cabinet as well, same door crease, everything, but it too is hermetic in the usual flattop design. It's one of only 2 units I have with perfect original factory paint. (The other is the top of my porcelain CK). |
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Post by referman on Aug 30, 2017 22:53:03 GMT
I first thought my flat top had been changed over to a belt compressor, but when cablehack listed the pdf of the "1934 Salesman's Bulletin #14", above, describing the flat top with the belt driven compressor, I thought it was original. Ckfan and blackhorse listed they both have flat tops like mine with the sealed SY compressor in the bottom. I have seen pictures of these and they have a large flat black condenser on the back of the unit. My flat top has no mounting holes for a condenser on the back and looks like it never did. Does that make me an odd ball? Thank you for the help. Very nice Forum. Picture of back enclosed:  |
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Post by coldspaces on Aug 31, 2017 4:19:27 GMT
After studing the pics I don't think some one swaped a belt drive in. It all looks to untouched other than the missing motor.
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Post by Travis on Aug 31, 2017 6:55:50 GMT
Maybe it's another example of GE being frugal? There are lots of examples of mismatched hardware and whatevers.
GE knew that folks just wanted an electric refrigerator now!
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Post by timeswelding on Aug 31, 2017 10:52:29 GMT
Didn't Cablehack produce advertising material showing this model with a belt drive compressor? If so, I am pretty there is no question what it is.
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Post by ckfan on Aug 31, 2017 14:00:28 GMT
Wow, that is very strange. I am never ceased to being amazed at the odd stuff that GE did.
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Post by birkie on Aug 31, 2017 15:48:46 GMT
Maybe it's another example of GE being frugal? There are lots of examples of mismatched hardware and whatevers. GE knew that folks just wanted an electric refrigerator now! I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that much of this stuff was produced during the depression? |
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Post by Travis on Aug 31, 2017 21:40:25 GMT
I think that GE used everything eventually. My DR35 unit received shiny new evaporators that would have been for the 1935 CK35 unit when rebuilt in the 1940's.
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