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Found this double dot cooler on CL for $350 and thought it was a pretty cool piece. Matter of fact, they just restored one exactly like this one on American Restorations earlier in the month. I believe it still works and only has a tiny bit of surface rust.

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Nice GE wet chest!  looks pretty complete too, did you score the front grill also? For those of you who don't know about this model, it's probably on of the most heavily embossed coolers ever made, everything that you see in the way of a logo, or lettering is embossed!  top, front/back sides, top of the lids & inside on the underside of the lids too! they usually had semi-hermetic belt-driven compressors, a galvanized tank liner. (the liner on these were prone to pin-hole leaks, I restored on once for a customer & had to replace it, so we had a stainless steel replacement fabricated for the cooler, it turned out Nice!

Again, congrats's on the find!  also...it it a keeper or a flipper?

I've had both versions of this cooler (electric and non) great size coolers really
and yes tons of great embossing... great find!

It's a keeper for sure. I'm converting it to a dry refrigerated cooler. I plan on making a stainless tub for it because the owner said it did have a few small pin holes in it.
The bottom panel he doesn't have but shouldn't be too difficult to make. Other than that, he says the panels are super straight so shouldn't take too much block sanding to smooth out.

Ok, so *Rick took a cooling system from a Vendo and plumbed it into the cooler; didn't look too bad when it was done, but it did take up a little footprint inside the case when it was done.  Is that the way to do it?

Well it's easier to use an existing evaporator assemble to start with, rather than fabricate something up from scratch, & yes the evap assy. will take up about 1 square foot of space when all is said & done, and you'd probably would need to install an air-defector so the airflow would be redirected horizontally as opposed to the vertical path in an upright machine it came out of.

yeah, I didn't like the setup rick did on his cooler. Mine will have a setup similar to the westinghouse coolers which were located directly in the middle where the lids are hinged. That way, you won't see much of the unit and will maximize the most usable space. Ricks was off to the side and seemed to be in the way.

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Great find.  I restored the "double version" of the same cooler.  It is a "chiller" and that was not practical so I use it for starage.  I did not want 200 gallons of water sitting in my basement.  They do look great but if you don't know someone that is very good at sign painting, it can be very difficult.  If done right, the embossing looks great.

Sorry about the double pic.  Here's is the other one

here is the "berfore Pic"

Great little cooler and at a great price. Congrats!

Did you pick that out of Michigan?  There is an older posting on the Ann Arbor CL with the exact same pictures.

http://annarbor.craigslist.org/atq/2533391165.html

Those are good looking coolers but the paint job would be expensive.

 :drinking: Tim :drinking:

Yes, got it up in MI. Really nice guy. Bought it for $300 and kept it for a couple of weeks until I could get up there to pick it up. He has a bunch of cool stuff up there. I tol him I' be back if he ever wanted to sell anything else.