Vintage window a/c's

[delaneymeegan]

 

 

 

 

 

My first A/C, bought when I was 17, was a GE Carry-Cool 5,200 btu (?).  It was a special bol offer from "crazy TV lenny" (now out of business).  I think it was priced around $169 in 1984.

 

I like window ACs.  The most efficient way to stay cool.  

 

I've had central AC.   Too combursome, noisy, and inefficient.  I've had a roof-top RV AC.  Too loud and sucks too much electric.

 

I'm game for a mini-split.

 

[newvista58]

KEN,

How do you find as many units, as you do?
You seem to have the "midas touch" / LOL.

 

[emerson5000cold]

Newvista

All I do is go to garage sales, house sales, CL, from the curb and lastly ask people if I can buy them. Got this little kenmore cleaned up and painted. And here's two units that are leaving sometime for a follow collector

 

[cycla-fabric]

Good Old Emersons.

My best friend who use to live down the street from me, his brother use to have an Admiral window ac, and was going to replace with a larger unit and I wanted to buy the Admiral, but mom said no. Well anyway, he did sell it and he bought an Emerson Ac unit and had his dad install in the wall. The house still stands, but the Emerson unit doesn't work anymore, as there is a window unit in the window in the summer. I do remember the Emerson was a quiet unit and cooled the two bedrooms and den which was nice.

Doug

 

[emerson5000cold]

What i did today

Cleaned up the fedders air filters, painted the case to this kenmore but the fan motor doesn't want to work right, it gets tight after sitting a awhile and will loosen after it has been running for a long time, and I oiled the hell out of the motor.

 

[tolivac]

One time there was a bat flying in our transmitter building.No one wanted to leave the control room to help it out.So I did--Opened as many outside doors there was and turned off the lights.Bat found his way to freedom!!He flew around me several times.Since they do eat pesky bugs-hate to destroy them-Any critter that eats bugs is a freind to me!!

 

[philr]

There was a bat that entered in my cousin't home and she got really scared by it in her bedroom. The next day, she borrowed a net to catch it (similar to a fishing net) and she was scared to catch it. So I went to her home and before the went down the bat appeared flying in circles over her living room (the roof is 2 stories high above that room). So I went in the stairs trying to catch it each time it got nearby and I accidentally hit it with the tube frame of the catching net. I threw it on the wall and killed it.

 

I hate doing such things, I try not even killing bugs.

 

 

 

[ovrphil]

Love those old A/C's!

Welcome Ken(emerson5000cold). I like your Kenmore(photo 1?) with the large vent and interesting cloth(?) covering the rest of the front of the unit.

Sam and everyone else - you can have annual or bi-annual posting of A/C's...always interesting to see what was once made.

Hi Sam, I love that '57 Coldspot of yours.

It's a good thing I can't find a place to put an old A/C.

Phil

 

[emerson5000cold]

Thx ovrphil

That cover on the front is to keep paint from getting on the front. Why wouldn't you want to find a window to use a A/C?

 

[bvf]

1957 a/c in arizona.

Hi Im not a collector but I have a beauty in a house i own and we have owned it since new in57….I also collect washers and i have some stainless steel eval coolers from the 1980s they never rust and are worth there weigt in gold..I have one working now 36 years but i replaced the squirrel cage… most people buy a new cooler every 4 years now,,,they hate me and i affraid of someone steeling it I allways like giving pictures here is my 1933 house of tomorrow trailer..enjoy i get pict of ac for you…mark in az

 

[emerson5000cold]

What I did today, newest find, clean the boiler since it wasn't happy. And rewired a fan motor

 

[ovrphil]

Ken

Great work and love your interest with your A/C's...along with some others who do the same.

In the not too distant future, we'll be in a house again. Without explaining all the details as to why and so one, a new HVAC was just installed last year, and we're still paying our half on it. If the house was without any air, I'd look into a single unit (it's a 1150 ft2 home) - wonder if that would be less costly in terms of cooling costs? Michigan has some warm summers, but they're never long.

Great thread and thanks for sharing your craft/interests.

 

[emerson5000cold]

Just some more stuff I did...

Cleaned up the little emerson, tore it down to nothing. Saving it from totally rusting out.

 

[emerson5000cold]

Picked up some sweet heater fans, started glass bedding the drain pan, trying to save this old fridge

 

[emerson5000cold]

Primered the pan

Paint tomarrow and rubber sealing

 

[emerson5000cold]

Cleaned this one up..

It was really really dirty! Now it should be one happy tubing unit! And painted up some emerson parts

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[mieletag]

Is that Carry Cool a 6000 BTU or a 5800? It looks like a later built unit, but GE's access port on the compressor makes it to be an older one before the Fedders buyout in 87 or 88. I have an ealrly 6000 with the aluminum indoor fan blade and 3 5800 units with the plastic centrifugal fan. Great units you have and great job restoring them.

 

[emerson5000cold]

Thanks mietag!

This one is a 5800 btu model, I was running the compressor when it made full head pressure it sounded like it had a restriction in the evap coil. Does yours do that?

 

[mieletag]

Sorry to to not get back sooner. The 6000 and the 5800 btu units when first started and superheat is high will make (the best I can describe) a low duck decoy sound. A cross between a duck call and a sheep bleating, except lower frequency and somewhat muted. I have a 1981 GE top mount refrigerator with a static condenser. I use this only as an overflow unit now. Anytime the refrigerator is started warm, after a while the evaporator(frost free unit) will make the same sound as the larger BTU Carry Cools. The only thing that I can think of is that this is refrigerant gas flashing at the end of the cap tube going into the evaporator, until the evaporator is fully active and the superheat has come down.

I have a 1969 GE Fashionette that has copper evaporator tubing with the aluminum spine fin wrap. This unit always seems to run a high head and somewhat high superheat even after I recovered the charge, evacuated to around 200 microns, and recharged with virgin R-22. Even replacing the cap tube did nothing to lower the superheat.

I also have a 1989 GE Carry Cool that is one the higher efficiency 4000 something BTU units with the condenser off of the 5000 BTU units. This one has the Fedders Rotorex rotary compressor in it. The unit cools fine, but has a somewhat higher evaporator discharge air due to the smaller compressor and larger evaporator fan and condenser coil. The compressor has a bad discharge check valve on it and when the compressor shuts off, it will back spin the compressor till the pressures have equalized. Makes a heck of a clatter.

Hope this helps.

 

[emerson5000cold]

Thanks again lol

I'll have to get the owner to run this on a hot day and get back to me. Sounds like you keep your units in really nice shape, I like that. Picked up another hotpoint today for 24 bucks. Spotted 2 airtemps in mint shape and a hunter branded unit