Most of the units were so well built and a lot of attention was paid to details. Need to add refrigerant more than once, there is a leak that you should fix before adding it a second time.Īnyway, back to the fun part. Do not add excessive refrigerant(Usually FREON 12) to the system. Replace bad wiring, power cords, plugs, etc and use thermostats that are in the same temperature range and amp capacityĪs the original. The OEM's generally don't keep parts for appliances more than 15 years old but you never know unless you look.īe careful to match relays, capacitors and overloads closely to protect yourself and your appliance from damage, or fire. When in doubt youĬan contact The Old Appliance Club (TOAC) in California which has a lot of experts in the field of restoration of various Most of the essential parts to keep the oldies running can be cross referenced with modern suppliers.Ĭlick here to find replacement parts. Should be a flap or baffle to control freezer airflow into the fridge portion to help regulate temperature. If the temperature is too cold even after adjusting the thermostat it may be broken, or if it is a single door fridge there Rely on the metal tag or paper sticker, almost any fridge shows at least 5 amps and is quite meaningless. Many units from the late 60's to 1980's pull higher overall amperage, around 4 amps or even close to 5 amps. Figure that the average unit runs about 35% to 60% of the time and you can see the power usage is low. I tested several older refrigerators and freezers with an ampmeter and found them using only 1.6 to about 3 amps! That means 180 to 360 Minutes and sold another one that ran for 7 minutes and stays off for almost half an hour, and that's with the fridge holding I have one that runs for 5 minutes, and then stays off for another 18 Percent of the time at 70 degrees F ambient for older fridges. The unit should not run more than about 50-60 No reason they can't make it to 100 years if you treat them well! Most of the older units do very well, as long as theĭoors close good and airtight and the insulation( usually fiberglass ) is dry. 6o years later they still keep on quietly running and there is Which is why I like the old refrigerators and freezers so much. So keep in mind that you'll either be replacing a fridge every 10 years, or paying for a costly (average $750.00) compressor replacement. Regardless of what you spend on a new fridge. Mostly overseas, they run hotter, have cheap start relays that malfunction and the compressors rarely last more than 10 years, After 2000 the units became really efficient, but the trade off is the new compressors are cheaply made, Then, mandated by the federal government, the manufacturers began to make
It could easily use 60% to 70% more power in that era, often defrosting and recooling even if no one opened the doors much. If the fridge was frost-free or frostless, The inefficiency continued until the late 1970's or early 1980's after the second oil and energy crisis. The units made after 1960 or so are much more square shaped. Only in the mid 1960's whenĮveryone wanted "frost free" units did energy consumption soar. The trick is that while the unit will draw a little more power when running and especiallyĭuring start up for about 3 seconds, but it runs a lot less overall than newer units. Not "frost free" or "self defrosting" and also remember that electricity was relatively expensive back then, so they DID But the models of the late 30's to late 50's were mostly Some of you may think these vintage units will be energy hogs. Nothing at all wrong with them other than finding screws to put the doors back on. I even found a few really good ones out for the garbage! Most of the time they just neededĪ good cleaning and in some cases a fresh coat of paint sprayed on. Needed to be rewired due to dried-out insulation but they all ran great. It turns out that most of them ran fine withoutĪny work required! A few needed gaskets (generic material is still available ) and a few (particularly CROSLEY models) Investigating what needed to be done to get them into peak running shape again. So I began to haul them home, and started
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Me take them for fifty bucks or even for free as long as I coud get them out. I began to look for them,Īnd discovered many of them sitting unused for decades in peoples's basements and garages. I always liked the curved, chrome trimmed art -deco refrigerators from those days. Some people are renovating their entire kitchen with actual working vintage appliances.
Of the sitcoms that they seem to have a 1950's refrigerator in the kitchen or in the office? THE ANTIQUE REFRIGERATOR THE ANTIQUE REFRIGERATOR SITEĪ trend has been spotted once again starting on the West Coast and now covering much of the USA.
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