My new beer fridge...

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Rockin and Rollin....
Thanks to Spartanmanor, I got the coolest fridge to put into my soon to be mancave....

It's just like the one pictured, but it's painted red. I'll be strippiing it and repainting it. The chrome on it is all in nice shape.. Should clean up and look like new... All the seals seem to be in really good functional shape, and it appears to get good and cold. He had plugged it in before I got there, and it was all ready feeling pretty chiilly...

I was thinking pait it back red like it is, because it looks cool like that.. but then I thought.. EDDIE VAN HALEN GUITAR PAINT JOB! Red with the black stripes.. YEAH BABY...

Anyway.. It's just like this one.. can't wait to break it in.. We used to keep a lot of different kinds of beer around, but we didn't move our spare fride with us when we came out here..

THANKS DAVID!

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P.S. .... why can't they build stuff like this any more? It still works after all those years..
 
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"They" can.... they just don't.

Frankly, some businesses still focus on quality, but I agree with your sentiment that in many instances many surely do not.
 
I was just reading up on these monitor tops... It was nentioned one can be run for less than a dollar a day, where as the new big energy savers can cost you upwards of $4 a day to run... Go figure..
 
Nothing like cool old stuff that just needs a little shining up.. I'm sure we'll eventually drink lots of cold ones from it..
 
Congrats on a cool fridge! I think it'll look killer with a new paint job.:thmbsp:

On a short side note, though, either your electricity usage figures came from a questionable source, or else you've got a decimal error in there somewhere. I believe that your antique will run around $1/day, or $30/mo. There's no way a new refrigerator costs $120 a month in electricity. That's $1,440/yr. Impossible, no matter where you live. A brand new 24-25 cu.ft. model should cost less than that per year, not per month. Way less. In fact, a 25 cu.ft. fridge should be around $90/yr.
 
hhhmm.. yeah.. now that I add up those numbers... It don't make sense... I'd say the site I read that on must live in a good hood with some massive 6 door wall fridges...
 
THats a very cool old fridge! We had a very similar one years ago out at the Farm when I was a kid. We used it and an old Coke machine as fridges. We were only at the farm during the summer and pheasant season.
 
Wow, very cool. Does it use electricity or do you have to chop up hunks of ice for it?:D Looks a bit like the one in Ralph Kramden's apartment.

Anyway, whatcha waiting for? Fill it up with beers so I can come over and drain it.:beer:


Where did the Spart find it?
 
I'm waiting for you to come over and help me unload it :p:

No idea where he found it.. I do know he said he had it for about 5 years or so in the garage unplugged..

I'll be stocking it with lots of those 750ml Belgians.... YUM!
 
UUUUUUUGH!!!!!!

Well... It's in the basement... but the top isn't on it.. No way my wife could lift it that high...

I'm sure I'll wrangle someone into it...

I can promise you a double wide side by side 1500 cubic hundred thousand super insane BTU new fangled fridge don't weight half what this does.. UN FREAKIN REAL!
 
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UUUUUUUGH!!!!!!

Well... It's in the basement... but the top isn't on it.. No way my wife could lift it that high...

I'm sure I'll wrangle someone into it...

I can promise you a double wide side by side 1500 cubic hundred thousand super insane BTU new fangled fridge don't weight half what this does.. UN FREAKIN REAL!
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I am impressed. I had forgotten how heavy that sucker was. I have no idea how I got the top on that by myself the last time. Laura refuses to get involved with my zanny projects when heavy lifting is involved.


Go easy with the top as that is where the fragile parts are. :D
 
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Wow, very cool. Does it use electricity or do you have to chop up hunks of ice for it?:D Looks a bit like the one in Ralph Kramden's apartment.

Anyway, whatcha waiting for? Fill it up with beers so I can come over and drain it.:beer:


Where did the Spart find it?
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Laura recently purchased a mint apartment stove identical to the one on the Honeymooners, it is small and fits on the countertop........we get one thing out of our lives and three more things come in.

I purchased the Monitor Top at Crumpton's Auctions a few years back:

http://www.crumptonauctions.com/

Crompton's is a junk hounds Mecca. It is held every Wednesday rain or shine. You will see anything and everything there eventually. This is hands down one of the largest acutions on the Eastcoast with three huge fields and a large indoor space with auctions going on in all of them at the same time.
 
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way cool.. thanks for the link... That's the kind of place we love to hang out at... I bet we'll be taking a trip there soon..
 
AWESOME! How old is that thing?

I've never actually seen a fridge like that in real life, but I've seen them in pictures.

Cool place to keep your beer!
 
I think my uncle still has one of these stashed away. It was in an old shed that my aunt had once used as a playhouse-sitting next to a working Victrola. The day they hauled it out is a good memory for me. The GE that replaced it in the late 40s/early 50s got moved from the kitchen to the garage to become his beer cooler-it has outlasted a couple of its replacements!

I've read that the refrigerant in the monitor tops is poisonous? Worth checking?
 
An issue of potential concern

Not to be "Donny the downer" here, but I seem to recall that these monitor-top units used either sulfur dioxide or methyl formate for coolant.

I used to have a small chest-type refrigerator in my shop at work. It was my brothers back in the 70s and was pretty old when he got it. I got to checking on it and it used sulfur dioxide for coolant.

Might want to check it out and use some precaution if it is to be place in your "living space"! :scratch2:
 
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