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red_october

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Just curious, how wide is it? I have a space one might fit into and my current refridgerator is a tiny affair that is wanting, and such a fridge might just solve my problems. Also, are they direct-wire or do they have a plug?
 
I don't have the size handy, but I can tell you that you do not want this as your main refrigerator. It is small and while the refrigerator is self defrosting, the freezer is not. It is a mess to defrost. You have to soak up water with towels in the bottom of the freezer or let the water drip onto towels on the counter, but the counter is going to get wet no matter how you defrost. If you are working with anything wet with your hands above your shoulders, water runs down to soak you unless you are wearing cuffed gloves. The refrigerator has the serpentine evaporator at the top of the compartment so you have to be very careful placing tall bottles inside. In the 50s and early 60s, these coils were famous for freezing bottles of milk that came in contact with them. As a fun refrigerator or bar refrigerator, it works well enough and if you get good door gaskets and have air conditioning that keeps your home's humidity low, you might not have to defrost more than once or twice a year if you are not opening the freezer a lot. The thing that is surprising about it is that it is so shallow front to back. It is the depth of wall cabinets, so that is slightly more than a foot. Since its construction technology also pre-dates foam insulation, both insulation and capacity suffer.
It has a plug on the end of the cord. There is a giant piece of V-shaped angle iron that bolts to the framing of the wall. The refrigerator is lifted onto this and then there are screws that go into the wall from the top of the cabinet in the area covered at the front by the grill. Because of the very small size of the freezer (even the ice cube trays are short) GE offered separate 24 inch wide under counter roll out freezer drawers, but we have never seen one in a place where the wall-mount refrigerator has been installed. They too pre-dated GE's FROST GUARD technology.
 
Thanks for the info... the refridgerator I have now is something of an abomination; it is part of a built-in unit that attemtps to be an entire kitchen in one washer-size unit (made by Woods), so I have a tiny sink, a two-burner electric stove (that is faulty, I might add, and I do precious little stovetop cooking), and what amounts to a largish bar refirdgerator with tiny freezer. The fridge is no more than perhaps a 20" cube of useful space, there is a tiny vegetable drawer on the bottom and a freezer that is useless; it is not self defrosting either and has a broken door (and a design that ensures future breakage due to frost build-up), there is barely enough room for frozen foods in it. I would love to ditch this unit for a real sink, one of those tiny Roper stoves, and a refridgerator. I have room for something like this, I think.

Ah, here's a picture of what I'm living with now.

 
Red:

I've interviewed several people who have owned wall-mount reefers, or lived in houses equipped with them.

Every one of them loved the refrigerator, and expressed regret at not having one anymore.

I can see where they'd have their practical drawbacks, but people who like 'em really like 'em.
 
Nuts...

I measured my wall space, I have significantly less than I would require to have one. I'd have to put it in the bathroom! A shame, too, because I love it when a quirky old appliance is the right tool for the job. I had a great plan, too, if only this fridge would fit my space!
 
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