Stop appliance genocide

[Jon A.]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

I've seen plenty of people that poked holes in the evaporator with that method. Then you might as well scrap the old thing.
I've used hot water in a bowl and changed it every 15 minutes or so. I also have a heater, intended to be used as a defroster. It takes a little longer, but, it's a little safer, then some of the other methods.

Better; I must admit I was concerned about breaking coolant lines when I had to remove the rest of the ice manually. One big chunk had wrapped around a coolant line and I had to hold the chunk with one hand and hit it with a bread knife handle until it broke away.

[Kamakiri]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

I've seen plenty of people that poked holes in the evaporator with that method. Then you might as well scrap the old thing.
I've used hot water in a bowl and changed it every 15 minutes or so. I also have a heater, intended to be used as a defroster. It takes a little longer, but, it's a little safer, then some of the other methods.

This is where "carefully" comes into play, and this can vary by fridge design too. Sure, you can just take a hammer and whack a screwdriver through the ice till it hits bottom, but I take it one fracture at a time....like I said, it's like cleaving the Hope diamond.

I've done it at least a dozen times with ease.

[Jon A.]

"If he succeeds, he will split one priceless gem into two priceless gems. If he fails, he will shatter the diamond into worthless dust". ~Garfield

Seriously though, I guess easy does it, or "Steady as she goes" as Captain Kirk often said.

[philcophan]

Some of the old ice boxes had a 'defrost' setting on the stat.... kept the food reasonably cold while the evap defrosted... some even had a tray and tube down to the bottom so the water would be evaporated and you didn't need to put a big pan inside. The old designers thought of everything....

[Countryford]

I'm currently restoring this 1948 Bendix washing machine. I've got the transmission all tore apart and rebuilding it currently.

[Dude111]

Very nice,g00d luck with it!!!!

[jr_tech]

Sorta related news item:
http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/La...or-3.3-billion
Wonder if in the future "real" GE items even up to 2014 will be collectable?
jr

[Dude111]

I have one of those smaller/newer air conditioners in my window and it really sucks!!

I put it on 65 and close my door and go out and hours later I come back and it really isnt that cool in my room!

There is a button on this for "POWER SAVE" but it still runs much more than my older AC..... I should have had that one put in when I could! (That one is too heavy for my dad to lift)

MOST NEVER STUFF IS GARBAGE!!!!!!!

[Telecolor 3007]

In Romania we had a program called "Marea debarasare" ("The big rid of"). Destroying hunderds of vintage electronics. Not so many house apliances, but probably some very old referigerators (pre 1963) ended up at scap. And some intresting washing machines. Didn't had an intrest on them back in those days.
But this power compusion thing is getting ridicoulous. Yes, big refrigerators from the '60-'80's do eat a lot of energy, but otherwise, old refrigerators are not so greedy as they portrait them.
Not even washing machines.
Only non-invertor a.c. units are really energy greedy.

[DavGoodlin]

I recall a Pre-whirlpool RCA AC window unit when I rented in 84, never quite got my BR below 80, just not muggy. The compressor starting dropped the line voltage at the other end of the 1940s house

The room had corner-wrapping casement window, I had aluminum foil all over it on inside. A brick house in TX, this place was a hot box with a silly old gas wall waffle-looking job for heat, never used it, just smelled the pilot

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by DavGoodlin

I recall a Pre-whirlpool RCA AC window unit when I rented in 84, never quite got my BR below 80, just not muggy. The compressor starting dropped the line voltage at the other end of the 1940s house

The room had corner-wrapping casement window, I had aluminum foil all over it on inside. A brick house in TX, this place was a hot box with a silly old gas wall waffle-looking job for heat, never used it, just smelled the pilot

I think at some point RCA ACs were made by Fedders before Whirlpool.

[Dude111]

Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007

Yes, big refrigerators from the '60-'80's do eat a lot of energy, but otherwise, old refrigerators are not so greedy as they portrait them

Nope they arent.. They know the gullible people will buy the lies and give up tiher GOOD STUFF for crap!!!

[Telecolor 3007]

The big one "ate" 1,500 - 2,000 k.W.h./year.

[ARC Tech-109]

I go out of my way for the vintage appliances. Not the post-war or mid-century moderns but from the 70's thru the early 80's when things were made in the USA with pride. AC units are a 1987 vintage Whirlpool 18,500 240V sleeve and a 1971 Signature 6500 made by Harrison running a Techumseh AJ series piston compressor. Neither are a model of energy efficiency but as I see it they're both more efficient in the long run as they don't need to run the compressor 100% of the time unlike the last Denali 10,000 that couldn't keep up.
My freezer is a 1986 vintage WARDS made by Samsung and it's about the size of a larger dorm refrigerator, running R12 it maintains an interior temp of -15F, dehumidifier is a late 60's vintage Whirlpool and my gas range is a Magic Chef from the 1980's I traded a "modern" Whirlpool for and my toaster is a 60's vintage Toastmaster I paid a whole dollar for at a garage sale some decades back. Newest window fan is a mid-70's Eskimo with square corners, metal guards and blade, oldest is an Emerson made pedestal from the 1940's. I have a Whirlpool stacked washer/gas dryer combo from the late 80's as well that uses the 1st generation direct drive, they call it the "Thin-Twin" but has full size tubs.
Personally I don't like modern anything. Yuppie styling with uninspiring white plastics and cheap electronics that masquerade as "energy efficient. Being a child of the 70's & 80's I honestly feel uncomfortable with the modern world as it's very unfamiliar to me and sometimes this becomes very stressful. Not afraid to admit I'm on "the spectrum" and keeping the familiar old around for me is almost a necessity. In my world that's the way it is and I will keep living in the past not because I want to but because I have to.

[Dude111]

A good reply to read my friend