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Post by ckfan on Sept 1, 2016 1:12:21 GMT
Looks like you did a great job on that old Frigidaire. I like the v two tone line! Welcome to the forum.
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Post by coldspaces on Sept 1, 2016 4:39:07 GMT
![]() Hola: I'm from Mexico my first is a FRIGIDAIRE BY GENERAL MOTORS 1951 Trying to post a picture  Those GM made Frigidaire's were as good a unit as any. Nice restore, looks real clean! |
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Post by ckfan on Sept 1, 2016 11:39:24 GMT
By the way mencho, is that a General Electric flat top in your profile photo? It looks like one that I have.
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Post by williej on Sept 27, 2016 18:35:52 GMT
My first fridge, ok maybe second I grew up with a General Electric my grandparents bought in 1954. Bought this one couple of months ago and gave up on the refrigerating system. It worked with a element instead (absorption refrigerator?) planning to rebuild the evaporator with the complete new system using a compressor. also planning on copying the hinges and latch for the bottom little cupboard and have it chromed. I already build a new thermostat into the box of the original, so it seems to run on original. I know its German and the name is Silo and if my memory serve me right it was build in 1952 The first wooden fridge I saw, so I had to have it. The aluminium block around the evaporator also intrigued me, I am still wondering how to make the evaporator to fit inside the aluminium block. Does any one here know anything about the Silo fridges?    |
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Post by ckfan on Sept 27, 2016 20:20:30 GMT
Wow, that is one that I have never seen. That evaporator looks crazy. I bet the aluminum box on top was for putting an ice tray into it. If it is an absorption system I don't think that you would be able to use the evaporator but I may be wrong on that. That is a cute little fridge though! Thanks for sharing it.
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Post by williej on Sept 27, 2016 20:34:33 GMT
I had to throw away the whole system including the evaporator (to stop me from obsessing), planing to build a evaporator from copper tupe inside a mildsteel pipe that the aluminium box fit over. Then fill the pipe with anti freeze and seal it of to help with conduction.
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Post by blackhorse on Sept 30, 2017 21:40:07 GMT
Well mine was sort of a plurality.
1972.
I found an old flat-top that someone had pushed off of a retaining wall into a gully. Worked like crazy to get it back up to the road.
Got it home, and it had a tiny puncture in the condenser where it fell on something. I put a screw through the puncture and soldered around it (with the charge still in place; I didn't own a gauge set, let alone any SO2).
Then discovered the relay had been hanging loose and apparently they burned up the compressor ("This side up").
Not long after, there was a pretty good flood, and I found another flat-top that had floated downstream on it's back. Took some trespassing to get to it, but it was Sunday and no one was around. It was just flood debris anyway, with TV's, other refrigerators and freezers, gas tanks and a wrecked boat--
Took it home (all 748 Lbs of wonderful waterloggedness).
Sonofagun! It ran!
I took the Texolite strips off (had no idea what they were called) and pulled the liner out and cleaned the muck that was the cardboard out, and replaced it with the cardboard from the one with the burned-out compressor. Insane amount of work, thinking back, but my treasure worked!
I was hooked.
It was the one with the slightly domed top instead of completely flat, and 3 ribs running down the door and a General Electric badge over the 3 ribs.
We've moved 9 times in my life; unfortunately that unit got left behind in favor of the monitors I had managed to accumulate between moves.
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Post by birkie on Sept 30, 2017 23:15:42 GMT
For me, it all started by reading about absorption and vapor compression cycles in an old 1956 or 1957 World Book encyclopedia when I was in second or third grade. Flash forward to 2013/2014, my wife and I were talking about our appreciation for vintage technology and style. I had heard of monitor tops (and read the William Holladay article) in the intervening years, really liked the design, but had never seen one in real life!
Anyway, we looked on Craigslist and eventually found a CK-2-B16. That was shortly followed by a flat top, then later some DRs.
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Post by ckfan on Oct 1, 2017 16:11:54 GMT
Wow, blackhorse. Sounds like the flat tops are flood proof too! Simply amazing story.
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Post by birkie on Oct 1, 2017 16:23:54 GMT
Wow, blackhorse. Sounds like the flat tops are flood proof too! Simply amazing story. Didn't GE have ads where they claimed to subject their refrigerators to flooding, freezing, fire, and all sorts of other ailments? Guess this demonstrates they weren't too far off the mark! |
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Post by ckfan on Oct 1, 2017 16:54:18 GMT
Wow, blackhorse. Sounds like the flat tops are flood proof too! Simply amazing story. Didn't GE have ads where they claimed to subject their refrigerators to flooding, freezing, fire, and all sorts of other ailments? Guess this demonstrates they weren't too far off the mark! Yes they did. They did that when the DRs were starting. |
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Post by blackhorse on Oct 1, 2017 20:25:29 GMT
Lot of cleaning up but yeah. After it started and ran a few seconds take the relay, thermostat and compressor terminal cover apart and clean out the mud and good to go. Then when it was frosting and cycling repair the cabinet.
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Post by sheeplady on Oct 3, 2017 1:45:36 GMT
When I was a little girl, I read my parents Old House Journals. In the 1980s the kitchens in there were *filled* with monitortops. I believe I most commonly saw CKs. Whether or not that's true, to me the CK style is what I always pictured in my head after that.
To me, I an remember seeing those kitchens and thinking how beautiful they were and how, someday, maybe if I made it in life I could have a shiny kitchen complete with a monitor top.
Little did I know people sold these things for the price of scrap, and not the thousands of dollars I expected them to be as a small child.
Also, I didn't expect to have a fridge collection, but honestly, I want them all. (Well, a sample of each one that looks different and all the hard luck cases, but lets not split hairs here.)
While technically our first was a CK,we did already own a small oak icebox.
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Post by blackhorse on Oct 3, 2017 16:13:38 GMT
....lets not split hairs here.) Better we should split hares. Mmmm-- Kentucky Fried Critter Bits.......  |
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Post by sheeplady on Oct 4, 2017 0:48:48 GMT
There was a woodchuck living under our neighbor's shed. The woodchuck was nice and fat, thanks to my garden.
With our neighborhood being tightly spaced housing and the neighbor in question being a cop (likely discharging a weapon there would be illegal, but not for him) I started dropping hints.
At first, they were subtle. Things like, "I hear woodchuck tastes delicious." And "you see that woodchuck? I've got a crockpot about his size." Then I got a bit more assertive, "that woodchuck is fat from eating all my vegetables, I bet he's taste good if somebody got or him" and "I'd like that damned woodchuck dead."
Then I got really assertive and said, "I'll cook that woodchuck for you if you shoot him."
Then we moved out.
Not because of the woodchuck or the neighbor, but for other reasons (work). I am still upset I never got my revenge on that rodent.
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