Posted on 06/13/2024 6:36:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
A blast from the past!
1:05 VIDEO AT LINK.
I'd buy that !
We just paid $2000 for a new LG fridge that I hate..........
That’s what happened to our GE model we had before the LG’s.................
My parents bought a new refrigerator in 1972 (a gold colored Kenmore). Over the years after my father died, I tried to get my mother a new one, but she refused to let me because her’s “worked just fine.” She still had it when she died in 2012. It still worked just fine. I wish I had held onto it, but I didn’t have anywhere to put it at the time, so we sold it with her house.
Meanwhile, every refrigerator I have purchased since the late 1990s has died after a few years. A circuit board will go out and it costs more to fix than to replace.
Yep, my guy said: “I work on 3 yr-old refrigerators more than I work on 15 year-old ones.”
Hmm, LG doesn’t get as high marks as speed queen for some of their products (long lasting reliability I mean) . Repair folks on YouTube all seem to be pretty consistent about speed queen being about the best (had to do research once for new washing machine)
I wonder if the two products (queen and lg) use different parts or something?
Is one a consumer qua,ity product while the other is coming ercia. Qua,ity?
Repairman told my daughter, keep your old one.
I can get parts and fix it.
Not so on new ones (that don’t even work as good).
I had an Amana chest type freezer for 42 years with nary a problem until it died. The replacement , a Hot Point, lasted 9 months.
It wouldn’t be so bad if we didn’t lose hundreds of dollars worth of frozen food every time one craps out.
We now have a small freezer as an emergency back-up..........
Mom’s GE frig was older than me.
It ran until she died at 94, and she had me at about age 30.
Brother unplugged it. Still running. Freezer was weak by then.
That’s it. Speed Queen is a commercial/industrial manufacturer...............
True about the feel of it.
Sort of like sitting in a 57 Chevy. Its difficult to describe other than it feels substantially.
Appliances maybe. But, I can remember in the 1950’s my dad never trusted a car when it started getting close to 40,000 miles on it. My 2003 F150 had 280,000 miles on it when I sold it 7 years ago. Still running with a new owner. Also, my business ran a 2004 Toyota Tundra until 2 years ago. My grandson is now using it. Had nearly 300,000 miles on it when I gave it to him.
True about the feel of it.
Sort of like sitting in a 57 Chevy. Its difficult to describe other than it feels substantial.
Yes, we have a Kenmore refrigerator that was manufactured in 1989. After a month or two ice eventually builds up around the evaporator coils and it stops working well... it runs all the time and it doesn't stay as cold as it should. After it has been unplugged for a couple days and all the ice melts and the area around the evaporator coils dries up it starts working fine for a couple months. You can't actually see the ice in the interior or on the exterior of the fridge.
I am not sure if it is a problem with an air leak or something in the defrost circuit. But my wife has had huge fits about it for years because she felt that a newer fridge would look better in the kitchen, and she has been angry about the inconvenience that this malfunction causes.
So, we found a new side by side at our local Costco that had been marked down from $1449 to $700 to make room for seasonal merchandise. I spent another $100 for the OEM ice maker kit, but it was a super cheaply made compared to the older refrigerator and even after quite a bit of trouble shooting, I could not get it to work. So we are back to using ice cube trays and a plastic bin.
The compressor in the new fridge is tiny compared to the old fridge and the system literally uses just 2 ounces of refrigerant. It seems to work fine so far but everything about it feels more cheaply made than our 45-year-old refrigerator. Unfortunately, my hand truck broke when I was taking the old fridge down the stairs and it got a few new unattractive dents to the exterior. So, I doubt that we could even give it away now.
The day after we replaced the refrigerator our 30-year-old washing machine made some bad noises and quit working. My wife was hoping to get a new washing machine as well, but when I removed the cabinet and took a look at the motor and transmission, I could see that the coupling had worn out and broke. $7 to Amazon and the next day I had a new coupling which took a few minutes to install and ten minutes vacuuming and wiping the dirt and lint out of the inside of the cabinet and it is working as well as it ever did.
I have an 18-year old Kitchen-Aid refrigerator with a failed control unit. Still cools, still freezes but no light and no way to adjust the temperature. Appliance repair tech said KitchenAid no longer stocks the control unit so it can't be repaired. He recommended SubZero as a replacement, since they supposedly stock all parts for 30 years.
I looked up an equivalent SubZero model. It was $14,000.
My wife’s parents’ International Harvester refrigerator is in our basement, and it is full of ice-cold beer. Her parents purchased the refrigerator in 1954 when they were married.
MFO
1960’s cars were crap and Appliances were great.
Now it’s the exact opposite.............
Just needed a recharge of Freon, but you can’t get that anymore................
Commercial quality mfr..................
Unfortunately, if the thermostat goes bad, there are no replacements that I know of. For lack of a formerly cheap $100 part, the otherwise great machine is now unfixable.
I watch too many car shows where old is made new again under the skin with new parts and retro modifications and I am looking for a similar approach to this old refrigerator.
There has to be someone who has done this before and knows what parts will work. The replacement part available on eBay is hit or miss. I bought 2 from that guy and neither worked.
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