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Post by hippydon on Feb 2, 2014 22:55:49 GMT
OK Guys anybody got one of these? 1934 GE C32-C16. It showed up without a compressor. looks like it had a belt drive S02 unit. Getting a later model R-12 transplant So it can be saved! Any info out there? Thanks hippydon     |
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Post by allan on Feb 2, 2014 23:15:48 GMT
OK Guys anybody got one of these? 1934 GE C32-C16. It showed up without a compressor. looks like it had a belt drive S02 unit. Getting a later model R-12 transplant So it can be saved! Any info out there? Thanks hippydon That is really neat! I love that cabinet! Are you sure about that date? Would GE have made that in 34 along with the CA monitor top? I didn't know this machine existed. Will post pics of my Crosley Shelvador belt drive that I will restore back to original if I can ever secure some SO2 at a decent price. You are very fortunate to own that GE!! |
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Post by allan on Feb 2, 2014 23:17:58 GMT
That evap appears to have 2 tanks. Which is very strange to me on a SO2 system. Wow
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Post by allan on Feb 2, 2014 23:21:25 GMT
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Post by hippydon on Feb 2, 2014 23:37:56 GMT
 I'm guessing on the year. You can see it in the video (A horseshoe for your glove part 2) @ 21.06 and 21.24 I told the guy who had it that it wasn't a GE because it looked just like a Majestic refrigerator. Then I found the info tag and the video a day apart. |
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Post by ChrisJ on Feb 2, 2014 23:42:19 GMT
It's hard to tell, but they look the same style hinges a 1933 MT uses (no white stripes). the 1934 got white strips and a stripe down the door latch.
Not sure if that is applicable to this though especially since with the door open they look completely different. Very interesting!
What really blows my mind is why when they perfected a sealed system in the 1920s were many companies including GE still using belt driven units in the 1930s?
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Post by cablehack on Feb 3, 2014 0:24:07 GMT
That evap appears to have 2 tanks. Which is very strange to me on a SO2 system. Wow Not strange at all. The Canadian AK also has two tanks. The one I mentioned as being on ebay shows this www.ebay.com/itm/1930s-Vintage-GE-Refrigerator-Monitior-Top-Style-Works-Made-in-Canada-/251437976525Patent 2043917 shows the methyl formate evaporator slightly modified for SO2 use, and I suspect this, or something based on it, is what Canadian General Electric used in the AK.  Non hermetic flat tops were still being sold as late 1934 as evident from the salesman's brochure of that year, and you can also see them in the same ads containing the CA machines. The unit we're talking about here was sold as a lower cost option instead of the Monitor Top. I suspect this unit might be 1933, early 1934, because in the July 1934 salesman's brochure the Flatop cabinet was the later kind, with the compressor underneath, although not yet hermetic. One of my books lists a 1933/1934 model as belt drive "semi hermetic" with SO2. No idea if it's this one, or the CM. It appears the "Flatop" model name also first appeared with the 1934 models; prior to this the ads describe them as "Conventional" types. It's a question I wonder about, why they didn't use the DR or CA compressors for Flatops, but the CK unit was used very soon after its inception. Cost of a hermetic unit at the time maybe? Did something happen with the Scotch Yoke compressor that made it cheaper to produce? |
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Post by cablehack on Feb 3, 2014 1:25:16 GMT
More info - I didn't see it clearly, but it's a CB2 unit, not C32. So here's some specs.  It uses a belt drive rotary compressor. 2.25lbs of S02, 1/6HP. |
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Post by hippydon on Feb 4, 2014 1:34:51 GMT
More info - I didn't see it clearly, but it's a CB2 unit, not C32. So here's some specs. It uses a belt drive rotary compressor. 2.25lbs of S02, 1/6HP. Good eye John thanks for the info! Well post pictures when done. |
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Post by cablehack on Feb 6, 2014 8:53:44 GMT
The CB2 is considerably cheaper than the Monitor Top which probably justifies the non hermetic unit. Here's something to speculate; which came first, CA or CB?  |
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Post by cablehack on Feb 10, 2014 23:58:49 GMT
Here's some more on the CB units. The float valve looks rather like that of the DR with an adjustable float.   |
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Post by ChrisJ on Feb 11, 2014 0:01:29 GMT
That looks like a standard rotary type pump.
Wonder why the CA got such a strange one?
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