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Re: Old fridge
I believe there's some custom gaskets out there for certain ones but for Monitor Tops etc off the shelf weather stripping etc works excellent.
The door latch is only an issue when leaving refrigerators outside where kids are likely to climb in them. this is why years ago people were told to remove the doors when throwing them out. When assembled and in use I'm not even sure anyone could ever fit in between the racks etc. I don't think it's possible with a Monitor Top.
ChrisJ
Re: Mystery tool
I'm thinking that the whole "fireman's" bed wrench is apocryphal. It probably comes from a corruption of "A L Firman". Yes, it is a wrench for square-headed bolts. Beds and many other things could have been assembled with square-headed lag bolts "back in the day." Hard to imagine every "fireman" being issued one of these and harder yet imagining him fumbling and taking the time to disassemble a burning bed. I thin he'd rather smash the bed frame with a proper "fireman's" AX. By the way a real "bed wrench" is a wooden tool for tightening the rope "grid" strung underneath the mattress (hence the term…."Sleep tight. Don't let the bedbugs bite."
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Re: Mitsubishi mini split not working - basics needed
Sometimes the challange is the system has been sitting with no refrigernat for a long time. If moisture made it into the system, even if you fix the leak, you will have issues down the road.
If the system is still holding some pressure, just low on refrigerant, a fix might be possible.
Replacing a 3 zone system is not cheap, so at least a reasonable effort to find the leak is worth it but only if the system still has pressure.
Kaos
Re: "Yelp"/ angi list for contractors.
I like how you guys think… it always a pleasure to hear from you.!
Re: Replace a Munchkin boiler before it fails, or keep it going?
I appreciate all the input from this very helpful forum. I am going to lobby for the Lochinvar and to do a pretty significant replacement of the old plumbing.
Re: Indirect Water Heater Coverage via Warranty Company
Eh? Yes, the boiler supplies hot hot water to the indirect, which in turn supplies domestic hot water to the house. Technically the indirect is a water heater, and is not part of the heating system, though it is powered by it.
Re: Old fridge
I think the video you're talking about is from a guy named Dusty? He knows his stuff.
I don't know much about 1948 stuff, but I'd guess R12 or similar on something that modern.
No, the really old refrigerators never were energy hogs.
I've had a 1933 GE Monitor Top running in my kitchen for 10 years now and it averages around 30kwh a month running 33-34F. Right next to it is a 1935 GE Ball top which has been running for 4 years, that runs about 18kwh a month and it's used and opened constantly. Most of the mid to late 1930s - 1940s machines use very little power, 1935 is when GE really perfected things. There's usually no fans, and no defrost heaters etc. For what it's worth, we have a 2022 manual defrost mini fridge in the office that uses 20kwh a month, according to energy star but I've never measured it.
Here's the other problem.
What about more modern refrigerators that are "Energy hogs"? I'm picturing 1960s-80s side by side refrigerators etc. What's it going to cost to run, $10-12 a month? The most you're going to save is a few dollars a month at best even replacing a so called hog. Replacing a 1930s-40s refrigerator with new will pretty much always result in quite a bit more power consumption unless something was really wrong with the old one.
ChrisJ
Re: Boiler Sizing
The person before you did their job very wrong, don't second guess yourself based on that.
Size to the system EDR. What boiler is currently there is 100% irrelevant.
KC_Jones