Ideal 55 Question

[Rebel]

Have restored several upright machines but now working on first Ideal 55. Have a question on taking cooling box out to clean, paint and install new insulation. Have looked at several posts on topic but am still not clear on process.
First...how to remove rivets for strips ? Would like to save them if possible.
Next..Do you move compressor and entire cooling system up just enough to give you room to remove cooling coils from side of box or do you remove entire system along with box and then remove coils from exterior wall of cooling box ? Thanks for any help.

[cohammer]

Hope slider Bob will give you some good tips but as I stated in other post I would not take it apart without changing coils around tank . If your breaker strips are held in with rivet you have to drill them out you can’t reuse rivet.

[Slapshot42]

I told you how to remove the liner in one of your FB group posts ??  As Jeff stated you’ll have to drill out the existing rivets on the breaker strips.  If your careful you can paint and re use them .

[MoonDawg]

       There is no reason to drill out the rivets when removing the liner but I would highly discourage pulling an Ideal liner if not absolutely necessary.
 It's not nearly as easy as removing the liner from an upright machine.