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All my appliances are mid-century or older. Parts are simple and easily fabricated if necessary. Having a restored 85-year-old refrigerator (compressor and refr
by userbinator 3y ago
All my appliances are mid-century or older. Parts are simple and easily fabricated if necessary. Having a restored 85-year-old refrigerator (compressor and refrigerant still original) in active use, it's amazing how efficient it actually is. It's manual defrost, but doesn't need defrosting all that often either.
Reading about the failing condenser fan and compressor reminded me of these items, worth watching again:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32462954 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32462954
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20856036 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20856036
- ThePowerOfFuet 3y ago> All my appliances are mid-century or older. Parts are simple and easily fabricated if necessary. Having a restored 85-year-old refrigerator (compressor and refrigerant still original) in active use, it's amazing how efficient it actually is. I don't think the word efficient means what you think it means. Have you ever measured their power consumption?
- userbinator 3y agoA little less than 300kWh/year. For a 9cft fridge, some fancy new ones use even more than that.
- sneed_chucker 3y agoYou're seriously using a refrigerator from the 1930s?
- userbinator 3y ago1938 Frigidaire. Restored with new door gasket and insulation. Apparently, I'm not the only one (mine looks cleaner than this, and is a bigger model): https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/comments/13obhfp/my_grandpas_85yo_frigidaire_from_1938_still_works/ https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/comments/13obhfp/my_gr...