Vintage Air Conditioners. The Holy Grail of vintage appliances?

[toploader55]

Rotating Vents

Fedders had the "Weather Wheel".

GE had four round vents on some models

Phil... are you talking about Automatic vents or round rotating for air direction ?

Good Lord Robert and Fred... You even find Minty Vintage Air Conditioners !!!!

That's amazing and congrats.

 

[davey7]

Did somebody break into my place and take pictures of my Frigidaire AC units!!!!!

 

[DADoES]

 
<blockquote>What's the purpose of the lo/hi cool switch?</blockquote> Hi and lo fan speeds.

 

[supersuds]

 
"What's the purpose of the lo/hi cool switch?
Hi and lo fan speeds."

Couldn't be. There's another switch for that.

 

[wiskybill]

Two separate modes of operation.

Hi and lo speeds for "fan only" mode

and

Hi and lo speeds for "cooling" mode

 

[ovrphil]

Automatic vents

toploader - I was talking about those vents that are automatic, not the manual ones. I remember seeing them somewhere sometime. Thanks for replying, Eddie.

I saw this : http://www.air-n-water.com/product/rads-81h.htm#description
and thought there was a window air conditioner made by Chrysler or another brand, maybe late 60s or 70s, that had a control built in for humidity control. I know you can attach an external humidity control that enables the unit to turn on or off when it reaches a selected humidity level. So maybe I'm dreaming, regarding that feature being offered 40 years ago or so.

 

[wiskybill]

Like this...

Coldspot

 

[wiskybill]

humidity control...

.

 

[rstacey1990]

ovrphil

that is a sweet looking Chrysler Airtemp you got there! I have your videos of it saved to my favorites on my youtube channel

 

[rstacey1990]

Norgeway, those Carrier units are neat! that's on my want, but probably never going to find list LMAO!!

 

[rstacey1990]

unimatic1141, awesome find on the RCA Whirlpool. never seen one of these before. can you show us what the back of it looks like? maybe id recognize one if I saw it from the back, as that is the part of the unit more people can see because its outside.

Thanks!

 

[ovrphil]

Hunidity Control on A/C units

Bill(wiskybill) - Wow, that's it! Do you have such a model? What happened to features like this? Were they marginally successful or like so many other things, just didn't get the interest because of de-humidifiers(talking to myself here...lol) Thank you for posting this.

rstacey1990 - I wish I was the owner of that Chrysler Air Temp...but I just posted it as a "like". I've never seen one like it.

It's amazing how generic looking today's window A/C's look.. Then again, nah.

 

[petek]

I'm just wondering if that RCA Whirpool was built by them or if it's a rebadged Heat Controller which all had similar top mount air discharge. I'd almost bet on it. They were right down the road from Whirlpool in Jackson Mich.

 

[wiskybill]

Sadly, no. I only have the product literature.
It appears to have a print date of Oct/59.

This was for a model 106.60150 which has the
controls in the top picture.

According to charts for Sears mfg. codes that
I've looked at, 106 is a Whirlpool code.

 

[hooverwheelaway]

Here's the back of the RCA Whirlpool... Bland and boring, no cool escutcheon or brand identification.

 

[petek]

My word, it says Made in Canada for Whirpool Benton Harbor... hmmmm

 

[philr]

Pete,
I think you're right, it looks like a Heat Controller product. They also made GM Frigidaire units for the canadian market from 1964 to 1970. The model P052K below looks similar to Fred and Robert's Whirlpool P50.

 

[fred1965]

proto type window unit carrier

my father inlaw worked for carrier as an engineer in upstate ny back in the day.relocated to Louisville ky.i believe in the 60's.one day we were cleaning out he's basement when we came up on a box that had a window unit in it.he told me that it was the 1st proto type window unit that they worked on when he worked for carrier.we plugged it in and still worked.but compared to todays unit it pulled some juice.sorry don't have pictures of it now.i still currently use it sometimes at our cabin in the woods plugged into a generator.dont have any kind of paper work but my father inlaw is still here to tell ya.he still works for an heating and aircoditioning here in town.was layed off by carrier.

 

[fred1965]

proto type window unit carrier

anyone wanting to buy one let me know.i have it for sell.

 

[countryford]

Fred1965, do you have any pictures of it?

I'm looking for a vintage ac unit for my Washer room.