"You can be sure....."

[goatfarmer]

"if it's Westinghouse!" Picked up this little cutie yesterday. I do believe this is the smallest SxS I've ever seen. Almost makes 5' tall.  And look how ruggedly handsome it looks in Coppertone. I think the defrost timer is kaput, but it seems to cool. And the outside is in nice shape.

 

[justjunque]

It is cute!
The apartment I used to live in, previously occupied by my grandmother, had a Westinghouse refrigerator that must have been the same era. The emblem looks the same. It was white, with a traditional top freezer.
It's still going strong! If the next occupants decide they want something newer or bigger, I'm hoping to bring the Westinghouse here as a second refrigerator.

Barry

 

[justjunque]

Hey! And I have my first experience with my pictures posting sideways!

 

[rp2813]

I like both!

I've never seen a SxS fridge with smaller than 19 cf capacity.  I would have jumped on that one too -- even though it's coppertone.  I love that it even has separate dedicated racks for ice cube trays, and that it has fully adjustable shelves on the fresh food side.  That type of shelving is something I'd only expect on a more TOL model from that era.  What a great find!

 

The recessed installation advisory on the metal tag makes me think this fridge may employ a forced draft system with a clean back, but I'm also thinking that for such a small model, it may have an exposed condenser on the back.  Kenny, which is it?  I hope if the defrost timer is on the fritz that you might be able to revive it.  Finding a replacement could present a challenge

 

Re: sideways pictures, I have a theory that this only happens with pictures that have been taken with a phone as opposed to lifted from somewhere else on line.  It might even be limited to pix taken with iPhones.  I had a hell of a time rotating and re-rotating my recent pic of two leather chairs to post correctly.  It might be time to launch a separate bug-related thread about this.

 

[justjunque]

Ralph,

Actually, just about every picture I've ever posted here has been taken with my iPhone, and posted from same. This is my first time having them come out oriented wrong.

Barry

 

[mieleman]

When my father remodeled our Buffalo, NY kitchen in 1973, I convinced my parents to spend what was lot of extra $ for an Amana SxS. If I recall, they made four models, 17, 19, 21, and 25. We had a 19, harvest gold, of course....

 

[goatfarmer]

Clean back, it has the condenser underneath. It did nothing when I plugged it in, got to the timer, and tried to turn it manually. Didn't want to move, but finally got it to turn, it started, and is holding about 15 in the freezer.

 

[tomturbomatic]

That box might have the rolled condenser that had air blown through it by a fan. I had that in a top mount from the early 70s. They were hell to keep clean if you had pets.

 

[foraloysius]

There is already a thread about the picture issue.

https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?82895_40

 

[DADoES]

 
For folks whose pics are sideways or upside down, do you see them that way in the post preview?  If so, have you tried rotating them before attaching to the post?

Delete the uploaded pics off the post composition.  Rotate them to correct orientation via whatever method is available.  Reattach to the in-progress post.  Fixed?  Or still wrong?

 

[combo52]

WH 17 CF SXS

I remember these well, WH was one of the few companies who made a shorter SXS so people with older kitchens could get a new Frost-Free SXS without cutting overhead cabinets.

 

WP also built a 17CF SXS that was 66" tall, it had fiber-glass insulation so it had thicker walls a had a really narrow freezer inside.

 

These WHs tended to have a noisy compressor and they used a lot of power, they had a 6 hour timer so they defrosted every 6 hours of running time, it is simple to find a replacement timer they are readily available although I would install at least an 8 hour timer if not a 12 hour to save energy and prolong the remaining life of the defrost system and the compressor etc.

 

John L.

 

[arbilab]

my pictures posting sideways

Where?  I don't see any sideways pictures.  Browser is FF48, last  version that works with XP.

 

[repairguy]

Congrats! Cool find.

 

[rp2813]

I did exactly that Glenn.  Even when I figured out which way the system was turning the pictures and rotated them with my laptop's picture viewing app in such a way as to trick the system into posting them upright, they still came out sideways or upside down.  Every which way but right side up.  By the time I did get them to attach correctly, I had rotated them so many different ways that I couldn't remember how I arrived at the right way to turn them.

 

[goatfarmer]

Thanks John. I'm sure the defrost heater is made of unobtanium these days, unless you could match one up, or make another model fit. 12 hour timer sounds like a plan.

 

[Marky_Mark]

Nice fridge!  All photos in this thread are correctly orientated on my iPad and MacBook Pro.  From what you said, I assume some people are seeing them sideways. 

 

[justjunque]

Mark,

When I first responded to Kenny's original post with pictures of my refrigerator, my pictures were sideways. Now, I see them oriented correctly.
I don't know if Robert saw it and worked his magic.

Barry