Show me your GE Combination, I'll show you mine

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Several weeks ago, I picked this PINK GE COMBINATION REFRIGERATOR FREEZER up at an estate sale for only $40. The people at the estate told me that it was used as a secondary fridge with no problems. It was even plugged in during the sale but there were no takers. To my surprise, people working the sale cheered when I said I would take the fridge. Kinda crazy. Anyways, it now resides in my garage. I plan to use it as my primary fridge once I remodel my place. Here are the pics!

 

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COMBINATION in its pretty cursive marque

 

[pulltostart]

Congratulations!  That's a nice-looking refrigerator.  Several folks here have similar and should be able to help if you have questions or help with it.  BTW, we will want to see photos once it's in the kitchen!

 

lawrence

 

[rp2813]

OMG!  I'm not a fan of pink but if I saw that for $40 I wouldn't have thought twice about it -- presuming it's a "Frost Guard" model.  I love the swing-out shelves as opposed to the revolving ones, and bottom freezer is my preference.

 

I've posted pix of my '57 Combination here a bazillion times.  It has been over-exposed to say the least.

 

 

 

[tomturbomatic]

Very Nice

Jut be sure to keep bottles away from that serpentine coil. It freezes things. I believe I was told that the refrigeration cycle runs the compressor until that coil reaches 20 below zero Fahrenheit.

Years ago I went to an estate sale and found a beautiful 60s GE Freezer with Frost Guard in the basement. There was even some frozen salmon in it. I went back the last day and bought it for half price which I think was $40 with the food in it.

 

[danemodsandy]

I Think....

....That's a '59. It has both the swing-out shelves (as opposed to the turnaround ones seen on '57s and '58s), and it has the roll-out ice service for the freezer.

I hope you appreciate that roll-out ice service - the major drawback to the two previous years was a very hard-to-access teensy little shelf that held four ice trays, and was a damn knuckle-buster at defrost time.

Hopefully you have none of that aggravation; I think '59 was the year GE went to all-frostless on its upper-series models.

I second what Tom says about keeping tall stuff away from the serpentine coils in the fridge compartment; anything touching them will freeze. A two-liter pop bottle would be an example.

 

[rp2813]

Serpentine Coil

The coil on my fridge has a gap in the middle, which allows for tall bottles to be stored upright.  This is in addition to the two fold-away bottle cradles on the side of the top shelf.

 

I wonder if GE decided that bottles could be stored in the door shelves and did away with the gap (I use the bottom door shelf exclusively for that purpose), or perhaps due to the additional cubic feet of storage, more coil was needed.

 

Here's a shot of my Combo with the coil visible:

 

[danemodsandy]

Ralph:

You're absolutely right, but human nature is just to shove a bottle upright on the shelf.

On our '58, my mother failed to put a bottle on the fold-down rack securely; it somehow fell off and broke (this was the era of glass bottles). This was very shortly after the fridge was purchased, and she never trusted or used the fold-down shelves again in all the thirty or so years she owned the unit. If she found that one of us kids had put a bottle on "those things," she moved it.

Weird.

 

[rp2813]

I have two bottles in those cradles more or less at all times.  You do need to make sure they've been placed in them securely.

 

Tom, I think I read in my service manual for the '57 models that the compressor should cut out when the coil temp reaches 13 below.  They may have bumped it lower for the larger, entirely frost free models that came out a couple of years later.