toggleswitch2
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It's a GE *Custom Manhattan* Model. LOL
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There seems to be a currently existing aspect ratio (length to width) of modern-day A/Cs. Anyone awar of this or know what it is?
Looks like that older GE pictured "grew" to a maximum width and then sprouted taller than today's units would have. I wonder if this was to enable instalation in a narrower window. Love those three circular air-vent directional wheels. Sorta reminds me of the Fedders brand singular wheel which directed conditioned air in any direction around, but not into the room.
Growing up the only GE brand in my parents' house was the two Carry-cool winow A/Cs..... well unless you count the Hotpoint brand fridge in coppertone.
Looks like that older GE pictured "grew" to a maximum width and then sprouted taller than today's units would have. I wonder if this was to enable instalation in a narrower window. Love those three circular air-vent directional wheels. Sorta reminds me of the Fedders brand singular wheel which directed conditioned air in any direction around, but not into the room.
Growing up the only GE brand in my parents' house was the two Carry-cool winow A/Cs..... well unless you count the Hotpoint brand fridge in coppertone.
I thought GE air conditioners all used the "spine fin" coils. That one has regular style coils in it. That looks similar to the zone-line heat pumps that were installed in my grandparents home.
Does anyone have anything on the GM-Frigidaire air conditioners?
Does anyone have anything on the GM-Frigidaire air conditioners?
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Mildew, BTW, is simply mold on fabrics.
~They said that you had to leave your shoes out to "air" after wearing them so they wouldn't mold in the closet. Some people had a light bulb burning continuously inside their closets to keep mildew down (the heat from the bulb was susposed to do this).
It's actually also the light, IIRC.
I've also seen tiny little anti-mold/mildew fans (don't recall if they had tiny heaters as well) with a standard Edsion light-bulb screw-base intended for a closet's lamp/lighting socket.
FAN in conjunction with LIGHT + HEAT all work in unison to prevent mold and mildew.
I had never seen louver doors on a closet until I went to (hot, humid) Florida. Helps with circulation.
~They said that you had to leave your shoes out to "air" after wearing them so they wouldn't mold in the closet. Some people had a light bulb burning continuously inside their closets to keep mildew down (the heat from the bulb was susposed to do this).
It's actually also the light, IIRC.
I've also seen tiny little anti-mold/mildew fans (don't recall if they had tiny heaters as well) with a standard Edsion light-bulb screw-base intended for a closet's lamp/lighting socket.
FAN in conjunction with LIGHT + HEAT all work in unison to prevent mold and mildew.
I had never seen louver doors on a closet until I went to (hot, humid) Florida. Helps with circulation.
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~I thought GE air conditioners all used the "spine fin" coils. That one has regular style coils in it.
Depends. Maybe this one was before that design, or it's made by Welbilt and badged GE.
My Trane brand central air-condtioner has spine-fin style coils. Foundt hat odd, in that it is a GE "thing" (tradition). Learned that Trane is today's branding of what was American-Standard brand which was GE's central air-condtioning line.
I stumbled across why the spine-fin type of coil is supposedly superior in design and engineering, but can't find it readily now to post.
Depends. Maybe this one was before that design, or it's made by Welbilt and badged GE.
My Trane brand central air-condtioner has spine-fin style coils. Foundt hat odd, in that it is a GE "thing" (tradition). Learned that Trane is today's branding of what was American-Standard brand which was GE's central air-condtioning line.
I stumbled across why the spine-fin type of coil is supposedly superior in design and engineering, but can't find it readily now to post.
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Eureka!
TRANE Spine Fin™ Coils: Innovative design offers low airflow resistance and greater heat transfer for enhanced efficiency that remains as the system ages. Spine Fin Coils also won’t corrode like standard coils.
TRANE AlumaTuff® Coils: Rust and corrosion resistant, it prevents pinhole leaks in the indoor coil, that often occur when aluminum and copper are combined.
TRANE Spine Fin™ Coils: Innovative design offers low airflow resistance and greater heat transfer for enhanced efficiency that remains as the system ages. Spine Fin Coils also won’t corrode like standard coils.
TRANE AlumaTuff® Coils: Rust and corrosion resistant, it prevents pinhole leaks in the indoor coil, that often occur when aluminum and copper are combined.
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Anyone have a pic (or details)of a Philco (Ford) A/C? Those were supremely quiet as well as the Chrysler Airtemps.
I was trying to think if I had a picture of our Philco in the living room window but can't remember any offhand. Ours was gray metal with rounded corners (making installation in a squared window a treat) a white/cream plastic grille inside and a single thumb-wheel control. It was my grandparent's first but I don't know when it was from. In 1982, we bought a Montgomery Ward window a/c and gave the Philco to a neighbor. They dropped it out of a second-story window trying to install it and that was the end of the Philco.
My mother had the Fedders with the single wheel vent in her bedroom. It ran very well and cooled the room to what felt like near freezing. When I was about 14 or so, I brought home a small RCA Whirlpool I'd seen on someone's porch and asked for. They told me it wouldn't keep running for long, so I brought it home, cleaned it and oiled the fan. It ran perfectly after that and my bedroom was air conditioned!
My mother had the Fedders with the single wheel vent in her bedroom. It ran very well and cooled the room to what felt like near freezing. When I was about 14 or so, I brought home a small RCA Whirlpool I'd seen on someone's porch and asked for. They told me it wouldn't keep running for long, so I brought it home, cleaned it and oiled the fan. It ran perfectly after that and my bedroom was air conditioned!
I recall that where I live, in the '60s before retail moved from downtown to the shopping malls, these Airtemps were a popular choice for downtown businesses. Nearly all the retail establishments had air conditioning by this time; it was a way of attracting business since there were still a lot of homes that didn't have it. Usually smaller shops stuck them in the transom over the front door. Smarter business owners knew to attach a length of garden hose to the drain outlet on the outside and run it down the wall to the sidewalk, so that customers coming in wouldn't get dripped on. But then the condensate water running out of the hose and across the sidewalk created a slippery spot. The city wouldn't let them dig up the sidewalk to run the condensate to the curb, so unless there was a downspout nearby to plumb it into, they were stuck with that.
We had two window units at our house. The living room one was an RCA Whirlpool; I recall that it got cold and blew a lot of air, but it was noisy even on low speed. There was another unit in the den, which might have been a Coldspot; I don't remember for sure. To turn it on, you had to push one of the "fan" buttons and let the fan start up before you pushed a "cool" button; if you didn't, it would blow a fuse. It didn't move as much air but it was much quieter. My mom didn't like the noise from the Whirlpool, so it was shut off at night and the Coldspot was left on low. However, it usually froze on low, so in the morning it would have to be turned off for a while.
Unlike most of the '60s era of window units which had squirrel-cage fans, the Coldspot had a prop-type fan, right behind the intake grille. One day my dad had the grille off to clean the filter. I was sitting on the couch underneath the window that the Coldspot was in. I reached back and accidently stuck my finger in the fan. Much to everyone's surprise, including my own, it merely stalled the fan and didn't hurt my finger at all. After that, I used to dare neighborhood kids who came over to stick their fingers in the fan, whenever I could get the front off without Dad catching me.
We had two window units at our house. The living room one was an RCA Whirlpool; I recall that it got cold and blew a lot of air, but it was noisy even on low speed. There was another unit in the den, which might have been a Coldspot; I don't remember for sure. To turn it on, you had to push one of the "fan" buttons and let the fan start up before you pushed a "cool" button; if you didn't, it would blow a fuse. It didn't move as much air but it was much quieter. My mom didn't like the noise from the Whirlpool, so it was shut off at night and the Coldspot was left on low. However, it usually froze on low, so in the morning it would have to be turned off for a while.
Unlike most of the '60s era of window units which had squirrel-cage fans, the Coldspot had a prop-type fan, right behind the intake grille. One day my dad had the grille off to clean the filter. I was sitting on the couch underneath the window that the Coldspot was in. I reached back and accidently stuck my finger in the fan. Much to everyone's surprise, including my own, it merely stalled the fan and didn't hurt my finger at all. After that, I used to dare neighborhood kids who came over to stick their fingers in the fan, whenever I could get the front off without Dad catching me.
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toploader55
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We had the Fedders Round wheel in my parent's bedroom. We blocked off the hall with a sheet of "Masonite", and cooled 3 rooms with that A/C. It did feel like freezing.
When I was about 14 a friend of mine in Jr. High said they had a Whirlpool that the compressor wouldn't start. I got my Dad to help me bring it home, and plugged it in and it fired right up. My friends wiring couldn't give it enough to turn over. I think it was an 8,000 BTU. I put it in the Kitchen and Mom was freezing while she made dinner in July.
Oh by the way, I have to look for some Philcos. gregm sent me some pics back in March. I'll go look for them.
Similar Stories.
We had the Fedders Round wheel in my parent's bedroom. We blocked off the hall with a sheet of "Masonite", and cooled 3 rooms with that A/C. It did feel like freezing.
When I was about 14 a friend of mine in Jr. High said they had a Whirlpool that the compressor wouldn't start. I got my Dad to help me bring it home, and plugged it in and it fired right up. My friends wiring couldn't give it enough to turn over. I think it was an 8,000 BTU. I put it in the Kitchen and Mom was freezing while she made dinner in July.
Oh by the way, I have to look for some Philcos. gregm sent me some pics back in March. I'll go look for them.
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When we were growing up we had a Coldspot 8500 BTU unit in the kitchen, an Admiral in the den (I can't remember the BTU's but it was a HUGE unit from about 1956 or so.
My parents had a GM Fridgidaire 6,000 BTU in Turquoise in their bedroom. I seem to remember that on humid nights it used to ice up quite regularly. It was noisy, but it did cool well until it iced up.
Us kids never had a/c in our bedrooms. If it got too hot we had to go sleep in the den. Around 1968 or so we moved into a house with central a/c. What a luxury that was!
My parents had a GM Fridgidaire 6,000 BTU in Turquoise in their bedroom. I seem to remember that on humid nights it used to ice up quite regularly. It was noisy, but it did cool well until it iced up.
Us kids never had a/c in our bedrooms. If it got too hot we had to go sleep in the den. Around 1968 or so we moved into a house with central a/c. What a luxury that was!
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Window Air Maintenance:
Before I moved to the house I'm in now, I had three window units in the one I was in previously. One of the things I never liked about window units- except the ones I maintained myself- was that most people's air conditioners were not too much shy of being filthy. I have seen some nasty filters, front panels caked with nicotine, and louvers that could hardly blow air for the dust on them.
I always vacuumed and then washed filters weekly, and hosed my units out at the end of the cooling season (you have to cover all switches and capacitors and motors before doing this, but it works wonders, leaving the unit's outgoing air smelling fresh and clean), as well as waxing the cabinets with car wax (Turtle Wax). I also oiled motors religiously. I always removed the units from my windows in winter; it made for a much warmer house, and the units weren't exposed to harsh winter weather.
I never understood why people wouldn't take a little time to keep their air conditioners clean- one of the big points about air conditioning was that it could keep the air you breathed cleaner. But a lot of people seemed like they couldn't care less, so long as the air was cool.
Before I moved to the house I'm in now, I had three window units in the one I was in previously. One of the things I never liked about window units- except the ones I maintained myself- was that most people's air conditioners were not too much shy of being filthy. I have seen some nasty filters, front panels caked with nicotine, and louvers that could hardly blow air for the dust on them.
I always vacuumed and then washed filters weekly, and hosed my units out at the end of the cooling season (you have to cover all switches and capacitors and motors before doing this, but it works wonders, leaving the unit's outgoing air smelling fresh and clean), as well as waxing the cabinets with car wax (Turtle Wax). I also oiled motors religiously. I always removed the units from my windows in winter; it made for a much warmer house, and the units weren't exposed to harsh winter weather.
I never understood why people wouldn't take a little time to keep their air conditioners clean- one of the big points about air conditioning was that it could keep the air you breathed cleaner. But a lot of people seemed like they couldn't care less, so long as the air was cool.
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I remember growing up and my parents had a 1962 GE 6200 btu Thinline unit that cooled their bedroom really well it was always nice and cold. My mom complained though that it made too much noise when the compressor kicked on and ran. I bought my first ac back in 1971 with my paper route money that I saved(remember the paperboy). Looked at different models and picked out a Philco Ford 5000 btu spacemate model(still have the operating instructions for it). It worked well and lasted 27 years before finally giving out. Now I have two GE/Hotpoint porta cool models in the summer house, while the main house is central air. It’s amazing how many manufactures of window ac units there use to be growing up. Now there seems to only be a few left that make room window units and that is called progress, how sad.
iheartmaytag
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The only window units I see anymore are Harier. I don't see the old names at all.
In 1988 I bought a 10,000 BTU Whirlpool that kept our small house pretty well. I sold that unit when we moved to a house with central air.
In 1988 I bought a 10,000 BTU Whirlpool that kept our small house pretty well. I sold that unit when we moved to a house with central air.
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Frigidaire Room A/C's are still available from Lowes, and Fedders are still available through appliance dealers.
I would guess that they too are probably made in China. As pointed out earlier in this thread the Haier's are umbiquitous.
I would guess that they too are probably made in China. As pointed out earlier in this thread the Haier's are umbiquitous.
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Thanks Veg-o-Matic. My very first A/C that I saved money from washing dishes at my Dad's restaurant was a Mobile Air 5,000. Very Noisy, but I was 12 years old and all the neighborhood kids were green with envy. I told them they could get one too if they got a part time job like I had. Remeber when you could get a job when you were 12 ???? Now the Labor Board and Social Services would get you for Child Labor and fine the S--t out of you.
Thanks Veg-o-Matic. My very first A/C that I saved money from washing dishes at my Dad's restaurant was a Mobile Air 5,000. Very Noisy, but I was 12 years old and all the neighborhood kids were green with envy. I told them they could get one too if they got a part time job like I had. Remeber when you could get a job when you were 12 ???? Now the Labor Board and Social Services would get you for Child Labor and fine the S--t out of you.
IMO, the best window units are Friedrich. Still made in San Antonio, TX far as I'm aware.
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Believe it or not, my parents house in Chalmette didn't have central AC until the 70s. They had a Chrysler like the one above and a Western Auto "Wizard" (like Robert's washer). There's NOTHING like the hum of an AC to go to put you to sleep.
