Westinghouse A/C

[maytag63]

Hope to pick this a/c late Friday. A little difficult to obtain answers from the person selling it but finally was able to get pick up date. It seems it came from an apartment. I just couldn't pass up a chance to obtain this working a/c and only an hour away.

http://boston.craigslist.org/nwb/app/5698680604.html

 

[cfz2882]

looks nice condition and I'm guessing mid-1960s era-one of my favorite and most effective window ACs is a ~1975 7500 westy

 

[maytag63]

Per the website: air-conditioner-man it's a 1963 model.

http://air-conditioner-man.tumblr.com/search/Westinghouse/page/2

 

[supersuds]

Neat styling! And a Westinghouse-made compressor, too.

Can't go wrong for ten bucks.

 

[artcurus]

OMG, that Panelaire one! I think Im in love. That's the coolest thing I have ever seen

http://air-conditioner-man.tumblr.com/search/Westinghouse/page/2

 

[sambootoo]

Great find! That's a beauty. Congratulations

 

[philr]

Nice, I've been looking for one like that for a while!

 

[philr]

I just got the "Panelaire" version. I think the regular model looks better but this is basically the same air conditioner.

 

[retro-man]

I remember that back in the early 70's my parents had a Westinghouse a/c in the camp on the lake in the kitchen. That blew such cold air. I wonder if the difference was that the cooling coils were in the part where the air blew through them out into the room as opposed to the coils in the intake manifold. Has anyone noticed the air is cooler this way? Does this design work better and maybe more efficient?

Jon

 

[maytag63]

Nice.  The front coils look the same.  

 

I picked up a/c yesterday.  The person that listed it was a young Korean.  The unit was the original a/c at the apartment complex that was built in the early 1960's.  When I paid him the $10.00 he said it was listed for $20.00.  I said no and showed him the listing.  He said it was a miss print.  I wasn't to happy and I explained to him that it was an old unit and one knob was missing etc..  He told me I could get a new knob at Lowe's.  We went back and forth and we finally agreed to $12.00.  He said I had got a great bargain and pointed to the new a/c that he paid $700.00 for.  

 

Trying to load pics but having problems adding them.  They come out very big.  Not compact like I've seen here.

 

[maytag63]

Ahh, got it to work.  There is corrosion in the corner but it hasn't gone all the way through.  When I turn on the a/c the garage lights slightly dim, lol.  Any suggestions on the corrosion issue?  Also, some of the aluminum fins disintegrated but the copper tubing is fine.

 

[yogitunes]

some people on CL can drive you mad......

I always try to add in again the price of the item that I am inquiring about with my email.....just to clear up any future calculations, been there once, never again....

and can't tell you how many times they say of a missing knob or part, of how easy or cheap it can be found for.....of course, we know differently......my only response, if it was so easy, why didn't they get it before hand?....

they know, and they checked, that's why their selling it, and still trying to get top dollar....to me, if a part is missing, or its partially broken, the value is the amount you would get for scrap......unless they list it as that, and price it accordingly......

other than that.....that is a nice A/C....got to love the vintage units, or any unit with knobs and buttons, versus this digital crap....

 

[supersuds]

Thanks for all the pictures, jason. And Phil, you are getting an amazing collection of Sixties window ACs! I like the Panelaire.

Since nobody else has had any suggestions about the corrosion, is POR-15 a possibility?

 

[maytag63]

I was thinking of using this because of the tight quarters.

 

Oh Phil, where do you keep your collection?  You have quite a few "items" in your collection!

 

[philr]

Jason, I'm more than tight on storage space! I need to figure something to solve that problem! Lately, I have been acquiring things that can easily be piled up rather than large appliances! Air conditioners are much easier to store than washers, dryers, ranges and fridges!

BTW, my air conditioner is a 8000 BTU and it has a Copeland compressor rather than a Westinghouse. It was made in Canada according to the tag and it contains less refrigerant than yours. Note that the condenser is also much smaller on mine and it has only two rows of tubes.

 

[maytag63]

I can see the similarities.  Westinghouse did do a good job in scaling down the size of the unit in the late 60's.  The compresser in mine is huge.  I wonder if they did this to make sure it had more than enough power to cool?

 

The weather has been rainy here for a few days.  Hope to have better weather so i can wash the a/c and assess the rust in the lower corner when it dries.  More pics to come.

 

[philr]

I think that the cabinets are the same size, I don't know if they changed to the the Copeland compressor because they stopped had making their own by 1968, because it's a Canadian-built unit or because it's rated at 8000 BTU instead of 6000. I'm surprised to see a smaller condenser on the 8000 BTU unit.

Mine is certainly less efficient as it draws 12 amps rather than 7.5. Your air conditioner has an EER of about 7 while mine has an EER of only 5.8 which wasn't good even by the 1960s standards.

 

[maytag63]

I was wondering how to calculate the EER rating. Thank you for the info..

 

[DADoES]

 
EER is BTU / watts.