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It's great that you were able to look at it, and get permission to plug it in.   Hopefully the lack of cooling in the fresh food compartment was due to the system not being warmed up yet. The Coldspot rotary high-side housing compressor needs a longer time to warm up than most. Hopefully it's...

That looks like a good one! I don't have a whole lot of experience with them, other than to say the compressors are very reliable. They do have an electromechanical start-relay and some had a capacitor. If it has a capacitor,  you might be wise to replace it as a matter of course. Also, if it...

Understand that! Limited tools always is frustrating. Hope to hear more after while.

Kenny; completely failing to make any start attempt in spite of bypassing the defrost timer and the thermostat would indicate that possibly the compressor overload breaker is faulty (open and failed to reset); there is some other broken wire in the unit; or the compressor motor has a burned-open...

Hi John; thanks for the follow up.  I certainly expect that the simpler, later GE defrost timer is more reliable than the thermal one; for the simple reason that it's not nearly as miniaturized. Had the original been a little more robustly constructed, it might have been more reliable, but it...

Hi John.  I had a feeling you would have some comments on this repair. We have talked before about this system and you have been instrumental in helping me get the original system working on others. Remember one of them had the fan wiring tied together, actually. Thanks to your guidance we were...

Thanks for doing your best to save whatever you can on this. :) 

Rebuilding and analyzing parts.... Thanks Louis.  I try to preserve as much originality as possible when I repair things. There is a balance to be struck, though. That balance is between true originality at all cost; versus giving the user of the appliance a good ownership experience.  If this...

Thanks Ralph, for the kind words!  I did combine learnings from my automotive days, and industrial control work I do for my real job now. I guess one could say this was a cross-genre repair LOL! 

This fridge came in with several problems. The worst of which was the cabinet being bent into a diamond shape, so that neither the freezer nor the fridge compartments would close properly. I hadn't seen this sort of damage before, so it took some thinking to come up with a way to fix it. In the...

Thank you guys so much for the info! I will share it with my friend. It definitely looks like the switch cluster shown in Ben's picture, just not attached and mounted normally.  Sincerely, David  

Obviously it's a cluster of mercury switches; but my interest is piqued by the Maytag branding and configuration. It almost looks like a part of a fully automatic heatpump thermostat from the early systems back in the 70's; but the mercury switch bulbs are a lot larger in this item.  I don't...

That red arrow is pointing to the "suction accumulator" which is where surplus refrigerant liquid is stored while the unit is operating. That part should be one of the last areas of the evaporator to get frost on it.  The blue arrow I can't really see what it is pointing to!  The black arrow...

Hi Travis. Thanks for the comment. I appreciate it! It's pretty important to learn the basics of refrigeration, or automotive, or anything technical for that matter. Even if you don't plan to do the work, it helps you avoid getting lied to by unscrupulous service people.     

Thank you Austin. I'm glad it helped explain some things to you.  The most basic reasoning for this is summed up as follows.  Many of the systems I work on need to be charged, tested, de-charged, modified, charged, and tested again. This has to repeat until the adjustments are finished. One...

Hi folks. Just a preface before I get into depth with this post. This subject may not be interesting to some, as it is slightly off topic and very technical. It's very much topic-related, though. If you find it boring, please accept my apology in advance. As you know, one of the issues working...

The tool for this was sold by Robinair. I made a video on one of them here:     You can use alternative refrigerants besides R12 if you can't get it.  My go-to is R152A.  This doesn't change any of the repair process, including the necessity of repairing the leak and removing moisture from the...

A bit grim but.... The "AA 409" pliers are used for marking livestock on their ears for identification. They are called "tattoo pliers" and are coated with ink and then the needles are used to puncture the markings into the ears of the livestock. There are a variety of them still available. A...

That is in amazing shape, no doubt!

Beautiful!