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Well, looky what Sandy found!

It's not an Amana - it's a GE fridge that appears to be a TCF-17A from 1971, only one year older than my 1972 J 370 GE range.

It's in Des Moines, and dirt cheap - only $60. Looks clean and is said to be working fine.

My only reservation is that the '71 full-line catalogue shows this as having an automatic ice maker (a real one, not the "Ice 'n Easy" semi-automatic unit), and none is mentioned or shown with this unit. I feel a John combo52 call coming on....

Anyway, I'm looking into this. Arranging transport is a whole 'nother beast....

If anyone - especially Kenny goatfarmer or John combo52 - has any info about these units, I'm all ears.


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It looks to me like the second shelf is laying on the bottom.  I prefer a fridge without an ice maker.  One less thing to go wrong.  Nice clean lines, and a nice accompaniment to the '72 GE range.
 
My parents '74 GE is still in place in the kitchen today. Never any troubles or repairs.
 
Looks like a nice refrigerator at a good price. If I were in the market I'd be tempted to snag it even without the icemaker. Clean, well kept and well priced 40+ year old bottom freezer refrigerators don't come up everyday and I'd rather give up an icemaker than settle for a top freezer.
 
Well....

"Ice-maker" rhymes with "deal-breaker," if this is a situation where I could not have one. I know all the drawbacks of icemakers, and I still miss having one terribly, because I'm a huge iced tea and iced water drinker, and I hate ice trays with the same level of passion most people reserve for abusive ex-spouses.

We'll see what John combo52 has to say about the possibility of adding an icemaker to this baby.

Oh, Jo-ohn!
 
Last Of The Real GE Bottom Freezer Refs

Hi Sandy, this ref appears to be the smaller 30 1/2" wide model, these used electric resistance defrost heaters and fiberglass cabinet insulation. these were good refs but the real find are the 34" wide hot gas defrost GEs.

Both styles were available with GEs fully automatic IM from about 1968 on that made the great little cylinder shaped ice and they used a cool Snap-Action version of the GE IM that actually threw the ice forward into the ice bucket ,very convenient because you only had to open the freezer drawer a few inches to grab handfuls of ice unlike current bottom freezer refs where you have to open the drawer almost all the way to get ice.

But the big problem Sandy was that these GE IMs in bottom freezer refs required so many repairs that the only you will ever live with one that works is to move here and marry me. I do happen to have a 1969 34"BF with this style IM that I am about to get rid of that is avacado.
 
Trust Me....

....You don't want me marrying you, LOL!

I love the fridge, and I love having an IM, but you're making this sound like getting the fridge - even if I found an IM - might not be the best idea.

Just gotta have an IM. Five years of going back to ice trays have me determined to have an IM again.

P.S.: Yes, this is a 30-1/2" wide fridge. There were two versions - the TCF-17A with the cantilever shelves and the IM, and the one in the CL ad, the TCF-17D, with standard shelves and no IM. Last year for a bottom-mount GE for quite some time. My '71 catalogue shows these two as the only bottom-mounts available; the 34" version had evidently already been discontinued.
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Last Of The Real GE Bottom Freezer Refs

Sandy I totally agree about the need for an IM, after all we are appliance people, we don't have to live like non-appliance people, I would never have a kitchen without a trash-compactor or even a KA Instant-Hot either, they just make life easier.

I guess that the 34" models must have disappeared a few years earlier, we had a good customer that had a 34" ref that looked exactly like the one you pictured, [ their house was built in 1969 ] he even took the doors off it and took them to an auto-body shop and had them repainted when they started to show some wear and then it really looked great ,almost like white porcelain.
 
Are there any stand-alone ice-makers....

available and affordable that could be a solution? I'd thought about going that route once when contemplating buying a Traulsen fridge-only and separate freezer, the latter with no IM available, but never pursued it further to actually see what is out there.
 
Roger:

My kitchen is too small for anything like that. Cara, Lady Cadman refers to it as a "one-butt" kitchen. The largest dining table I could put into it was 28 inches square. I have maybe seven feet of counter, three of which contain the sink. I'm tawkin' tiny.

I guess it's back to the Amana hunt for me....
 

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