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Welcome Home!! Thank you all for your incredibly helpful advice - My fridge is now home and working. I set the fridge on a middle setting and freezer on the warmest setting and I have frost in both already - so I'll have to play around with the settings a bit. I still have nothing in there...

thanks! Based on your advice, I'll unplug her & let her defrost overnight. In the morning I'll empty the drip pan, put a towel in the freezer, then rope the doors shut. I'll move her upright to the truck - doing my best not to damage the condenser coils (which are under the fridge in this...

I finally bought a *working* vintage fridge! Now I have to get the fridge home without breaking it. Any suggestions would be very helpful. It's currently plugged in w/ a little frost in the freezer about 30 miles from my house. When I purchased my last beau-tee-ful fridge (a broken one), some...

My father in law swears there used to be a fridge made with a porthole window so you could see inside it without opening the door. This sounds incredible. I've tried to figure out what type of fridge he's talking about, but never had any luck. Have you ever heard of one of these?

another combo question I've been assuming that the two exterior door fridge/freezers need less defrosting that the fridge/freezers with an interior freezer door? Is that a correct assumption? Appliguy - that's interesting what you said about the commonness of the two fridges. I would have...

the unfunctional fridge Here's a pix of the broken fridge that I'd like to use the doors off of. Isn't it beau-tee-ful? You think the doors may be interchangeable on these two models?

Is there any way to swap the doors from one model GE combo to a different model GE Combo? Are they all the same interior function with just different decorative outsides? My issue, I recently purchased a beautiful GE combo fridge, but getting it working was cost prohibitive. So it's now...

no condensor fan there's no condensor fan and I have had it standing upright for a while. Still 50 degrees. Indeed it was not running when i bought it. I was told it had worked for years, but it was unplugged when the owner died. I know that was dumb of me to buy it anyway, but it was just so...

I'm trying to make my recently purchased 1941 GE fridge/freezer work. I turned the dials to the coldest setting and I was thrilled to realize it gets cool, but not cold. Certainly not cold enough to freeze water or keep food cold. The built-in themometer has the freezer at about 50 degrees...

I wanted to thank you all for your help. The refrigerator repair guy came out to diagnose my fridge (40$ for the diagnosis). He said it had a freon leak, as most of you said. He couldn't tell where it was leaking, so he said it would be a waste to put freon in. He said I could repair the leak...

bent coil sadness pix here's a pix of the bent coil :(

bent coil sadness When I looked from another angle, it looks like the first condenser coil is bent - i have a hunch this is very bad news for my fridge. I imagine this is pretty much impossible to repair. Any chance it was designed with a bent first coil? 58 limited, I looked closely at...

it says freon 12. here's everything the plate says in case it sheds any additional light AH103AA16 (STAMPED AA1363369) primary system refrigerant content 10.5 oz freon 12 test pressure 150lb low side 202lb high side 1/4HP motor 115VAC 50-60cy fl-am 3.3-5.5 i think i'll try that service...

really? this is so sad! about how much does a freon charge cost anyway? is it less from the hvac folks?

freon here I come Is a freon charge something any refrigerator repair person can do or do I need a vintage fridge specialist? RP2813 is right, it does sound less scary when just standing next to it. Compared to my modern "energy efficient" fridge, this is very quiet, but I think something must...

plugged in The fridge has been plugged in for 30 min. Maybe it's a tiny bit cooler but only a tiny bit. I'll leave it plugged in for a little longer. It's still making what I'd call a fairly loud hum. Not sure how to describe it so I recorded it. The video is dark, because I put the camera all...

compressor pix ok found the compressor! There are several more pictures at the link. what do you think? http://picasaweb.google.com/sanford.melissa/VintageGeFridge?authkey=Gv1sRgCOLZ8qPHtrXmYg#5600403872426186674

ok i'm going to try to swing that part off. I tried the back but you were right it got tricky. in the meantime here's a link with a few more pix...

decoration I'm going to go take some photos. I assume the first thing I have to do is unscrew the panel on the back of the fridge. I'm not looking at coils or fans or compressors, but a smooth black back. That's just a decorative back right? I guess back then it would be ghastly if the...

plugging it in won't damage it? So it looks like the general consensus is to plug it in and see if it works. I had been a little afraid to do that because I was afraid I might burn out a motor or damage a belt or something. I don't know what would happen exactly, but I know sometimes if things...