60s Frigidaire Frost-proof in Texas

[bluejay]

This looks to be in fantastic shape, albeit at a steep premium...

 

Seller claims it's from '62, but it looks like it's from a few years later.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-196...82381080?pt=Refrigerators&hash=item35d9811118

 

[combo52]

Frost-Proof Frigidaire

More like 1966-8, cool ref.

 

[a440]

Very nice!
It is interesting to see by this time they revised the air pull on the bottom coils in the Freezer section.
The air pull is now at the back of the freezer on the bottom. On Robert and Fred's version the air pull is actually at the lower part of the door. I wonder if this put to much stress on the gasket around the door, or in fact just pulled in to much hot / humid air when the freezer was opened.
Would love to find a model like this in such great shape! Of course for $25 bucks!
B

 

[combo52]

Newer Style FD Frost Proof Bottom Freezer Refrigerators

They moved the evaporator to the back wall because of all the problems they had draining a horizontal evaporator pan during defrost periods, almost all FF refrigerator makers learned this lesson the hard way.

 

[philr]

I wish Frigidaire sold fridges with vertical evaporators here but they stopped making bottom-freezers in 1966 and they were the small 16 cu-ft Imperial version with the evaporator still mounted in the freezer floor.  This model had the same style "w-shaped" doors as your 1967 Food Life Preserver but lacked the electric door opener. The Canadian version had two foot pedals instead! It must have been a bit confusing but I'd really like to find one of these!

 

 

 

[rp2813]

Re: John's comments above about learning the hard way, I remember the two early '60s bottom freezer Coldspots I was familiar with both had vertical evaporators, but they drained directly onto the freezer floor, which had subtle depressions in it to channel the defrost water to a center drain.

 

The floors had heaters under them that activated during defrost and kept the water from freezing on its way to the drain.  These heaters eventually failed, and a glacier would begin to form at the rear of the freezer.  I saw a Sears repair man retrofit one of these freezers with a heated trough assembly that routed the water directly into (over) the drain hole.  When my own Coldspot developed this problem, I got the retrofitting kit from Sears and did the same job myself.

 

Energy efficiency was the last thing on anyone's mind back then, and frost free refrigerator-freezers from that period are a prime example of such.