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You got me chuckling with the twenty-five cent repair!

Lovely find!  Will look for updates on how the restoration goes.  

"Old wives' tale" Yes, there is an "old wives' tale" stating that if you lay a fridge down on its side, you have to stand it upright and wait some oddly specific and excessively long time period before starting it up.      People come up with these trying to explain things when they don't...

Local buy for very fair price. Used a bunch of salvage parts for this! Sincerely, David         

<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; font-weight: 400;">In this video I replace a broken sensing tube on this 94 years old control. These are often broken when they are straightened and re-bent during control removal and installation. Used smaller tubing for the...

The closest thing I could find is the 3030-404 with its 39° constant cut-in and a -5° normal cutoff.  This one can go colder at its coldest setting so that you would likely not need to turn the knob as far when setting your cabinet temp. However, it's getting very hard to get this type of...

Bill, in reading your post, it seems that you're pretty well aware of the limitations on the Monitor Top fridges.   You would be best getting a larger size cabinet model, such as a single-door CK30; or if you have space; a double-door version. The lack of freezer space is an issue for some...

Mike, I'm not 100% sure about the configuration of your fridge, as far as the thermostat goes. It appears to be a cycle-defrost design with the thermostat measuring the temperature of the fridge compartment evaporator plate. If that is the case, you will need a constant-cut-in thermostat for...

End of cycle signal.... You got that right. Who needs an End of Cycle Signal when you get an End of Laundromat signal?!?

Very lucky man.  As others have said, the real reason for this may never be known. I've seen this same video with multiple descriptions. The first one I remember seeing stated a can of Axe body spray was left in the dryer. The issue here is that people will find a video clip and try to monetize...

Hi Barry.   I understand how that goes. I sure hope someone can get this. I'm just too booked up with projects and not able to travel that far at the time.

This is a result of using the absolute cheapest components China has to offer, and housing them in side a combustible plastic enclosure. These are engineered to fail in a small number of years to ensure you continue to buy more of them. One of the many down-sides to this is the unpredictable...

That does sound like the thermostat isn't working correctly, since it's only running for 5 minutes and stopping. Normally if it's a start relay problem the short cycles will be very short; maybe 5 seconds.  It sounds like the compressor is running normally while it's running, just cutting off...

Please save this from being scrapped!  It won't be around much longer. I am not able to get it due to distance.    This is a very early DR Monitor Top. Would be nice if restored.    https://monitortop.freeforums.net/thread/2527/2-a16-looking-good-home?page=1&scrollTo=34553

It's very disappointing that they used metal shielded bearings in that application where water and moisture are in the environment around them. That is "asking for" failures. You made a great choice in buying rubber sealed bearings.   Metal shielded bearings do have a place; typically in...

Excellent finds!

Hi Stan. Thanks for the info and discussion of how it was operating a dry cleaner back in the day. Fascinating stuff!

Jody, it does sound like you need to look more closely at the thermostat control. The fact that tapping near it causes the unit to start is very telling. Could need cleaning and re-lubrication or there could be enough wear that it needs to be replaced. 

Hi  Kevin, thanks. The original thermostat is a Ranco which is still available new. We're just replacing it with a new one. I am going to rewire the whole thing, however.    Things are ridiculously busy for me these days and it has cut into my video making time. Just got to get things done and...

Thanks for clarifying that, John, about the evaporator thermistor.  As with you I haven't watched that video but have seen the thumbnail for it. I have enjoyed a few of his erlier videos, but he has been getting more and more biased and "mainstream" of late, which I find very off-putting.