Another round of refrigerator children

[travis]

I am having a manufacturer of cartridge heaters make them.  They cost approx. $38 each.

 

The heater leads in these units are a twisted pair.  I haven't tried to pull these with pliers yet.  The insulation is hard and won't flex.  To remove the old heater, I removed the badge and clipped the leads right there.  I then had to heat shrink the ends of the wires, since it's connected under the control still.

 

I need to remove the control and attempt to fish new wires.  The previous owner assaulted the bakelite with house paint, so that has to go.

 

[coldspaces]

Hi all new here but not new to Travis.

Yes Travis has a lot of frig babies and I have to admit I am pretty much just as bad. The Westinghouse Travis had erupt has now got the R12 compressor in it and seems to work correctly now but run time has been limited as I didn't want to leave it unattended yet. I think part of his control problem was that the condenser fan was stiff and dragging. The control start relay coil sees the current draw of the compressor and fan motor both. Now that I got the fan oiled and freed up the control has been ok.

Coldspaces

 

[rp2813]

Welcome Gill!

Good Westinghouse News!  I'm sure you'll be an excellent source of knowledge here just like Travis has been.

 

Feel free to share pix of your collection with us here!

 

Ralph

 

[coldspaces]

Thanks Ralph, I am too mechanically orientated and don't seem to remember all the details Travis does with out looking them up. I have way to many projects and run my own HVACR business, guess my mind can't retain it all.

As time allows I will try to post some pics, I have over 20 antique frigs and 4 soda coolers presently.

 

[supersuds]

Happy to hear the Westinghouse is running again!

Is the R12 compressor the same as the SO2 compressor or are we talking about a different design? I noticed that Westinghouse was claiming that the R12 hermetic compressors in their new 1941 window ACs had a design that had been proved in nearly 2,000,000 units, so that would have to have been in refrigerators, I guess?

 

[travis]

Same design. The failed unit was 1934 and the donor from 1937.

 

[supersuds]

Thanks, Travis. Wow, Westinghouse moved to R12 faster than I thought.