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This is fascinating! Does make you wonder how it ended up across the world like that. I would expect it could work with 50 Hz power although it might would definitely change some aspects of the operation. Hope this one isn't lost off the radar on the forum here.  

Wow; that was a nice find. It's incredible what shops throw away!   Here in the States, it usually goes this way:   1 - BubbaJoeBob III misses a gear on the forklift and drops the $3000 appliance, making a minor dent. 2 - Store places the appliance on display with a sign "Clearance, scratch...

Ralph; it was the same one you were looking at from the estate sale. There was a Marketplace post but it was deleted today.  

Just saw a post on Facebook Marketplace. These are down to $25 each now.

Awe, sorry that it didn't work out for you. 

I was just looking again at the fresh food compartment coil, and the rubber heater.  I have a feeling this performs a similar function to the heaters on the evaporator on the GE cycle-defrost machines.  By applying heat to a few select areas near the thermostat sending tube, it makes the...

Very nice! That worked really well. I need to get a set of those bags since I have some maintenance upcoming on my washer before long.

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...