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Brendan, I agree about the fan design being amazing. That alone makes it worth quite a bit of effort to acquire one of these were it to turn up.   Nathan; GE and Westinghouse were very competitive in this era; but had different ideas on style. GE wanted to showcase their compressor design and...

Hi Melvin; glad you like this! It is very cool to find things like this.

I have recently acquired a copy of the Westinghouse manual from this era. It has been scanned and uploaded to Dropbox. The manual shows such things as semi-hermetic compressors with magnetic drive cooling fans, and other Westinghouse designs I don't think are represented in any collections...

Love that color, by the way.   It seems you have fully explored the shimming of the hinges and that does not allow for enough adjustment.  Have you looked to see if the cabinet its self is "tweaked" to where the cabinet opening is no longer square? I have had one in the shop where the door did...

John, I remember seeing that mounting kit at your shop. I thought we put that in the car with the compressors and I searched high and low for it!   Jeff saw my post about this on Facebook. I remember seeing his conversion, as well. It looked good and the coil was concealed behind the...

Thanks Melvin. I appreciate it.  Hope to be able to get this tested and move it on to another owner soon. I have way too many and want each and every one to be appreciated which is more than I can do.

Here are some pictures of a project that I have been working on little by little over quite some time.  This is a Frigidaire AP-7 cabinet from approximately 1929 to 1930. I had the opportunity to buy this and almost passed it up because it was missing the entire condensing unit. The reason I...

Penetrant oils... I think the best way to judge these is like this..... the gnarlier they smell and the more high-contrast the printing on the can - the better they work! Or that is how the marketing people would lead you to believe.    One fallacy of much of this testing is judging all of...

Hi John, thanks for your input on this dishwasher!  You are absolutely correct about the drain solenoid being energized to "hold" and de-energized to drain.  I used a relay to invert the signal from the timer. The relay sends power to the drain pump whenever the timer is running and the timer...

Tom; thank you so much for that information. There were a few other small discrepancies in the manual, as well. I figured it was probably a year model difference thing.   I expect detergent "pods" may be an option for this machine, in the hopes that they don't dissolve during the initial spray...

Thank you for the video!

Thank you Doug. I appreciate it and figured something was not correct. Will continue looking for the correct part. If anyone has a lead on one, please let me know!

One of my fridge repair customers slipped this in when I was not looking LOL.  I have managed to sort out the fill valve and drain pump, but the detergent dispenser has me in a quandary.    I made a video explaining it; but in summary this is the problem.  The detergent cup dumps into the tub...

I live in Alabama, where most of the year is pretty warm. Because I live alone I turn the A/C off when I leave home in the morning around 08:00 and then turn it back on when I come home in the afternoon. It stays on 68°F.  My home is about 30 years old and has the original 3 ton R22 Goodman...

Wow that was certainly a lot of work to get that down! It's a shame they didn't follow the GE installation guide and blocked in the top area.  As John L stated, you have the original compressor all of which were faulty in design and have died.  Fortunately, this original condensing unit has a...

SO2 myths.... Stan; I know you're being facetious about a Monitor Top leaking SO2 and removing the paint from the walls; but I want to explain how SO2 does cause damage.  If you lose that entire charge in the house all at once, it would leave no lasting evidence once it was ventilated.   The...

Happy ending John, it is great that the AP-7 was able to be saved in the end and you and your brother didn't have a Bad Experience with the authorities!  I also learned the hard way about forcing the flywheels on these old belt-drive compressors. The shaft seal will corrode and seize up, then...

I was talking to someone about this a day or so ago.  In the article linked where the emergency services hospitalized someone for an SO2 leak in June 2024; it seems they were trying to "dispose of" the refrigerator which had been in their basement out of service. Apparently they decided it was...

Very nice! That is a 1933 "Type CA, Form A" Monitor Top. It is likely a CA-2 size unit. Looks to be the original cabinet and cooling unit which likely were sold together (many have been mixed and matched over the years.)  This is GE's experimental methyl formate unit, used only for two years...

Very nice! Paul, that shop will server you very well! Now you will stay busy for sure!   And you are correct about projects expanding to fill any and all available space.... it will happen sooner or later! When I moved into my current place I never imagined I would fill up this shop like I have.