Very nice box.

A great Pepsi score! I love it. Its always so hard to find good pepsi stuff but you did. 

Awesome find. Especially with the bottle opener!
  TFJ

Nice find. I like the Pepsi, nice change of pace from mostly Coke.

Sorry jrwienri, not sure if you meant you've sent me an email regarding two doors you have but I can guaranty you that I've never received any emails pertaining to V81 doors for sale, I know I sometimes take a while to reply to messages  lol but I know I never got that one, which brings me to my main problem, time, i'm definitely not afraid of hard work and I do all my own restoring for the exception of chrome or course, but spare time is very scarce these days lol so like SIGNGUY stated, not sure if all the work would even be worth it, not so much a cost vs time issue but more that I probably won't be happy with the end result, on the other hand, I also know that a repop door will equally irritated me every time I look at the machine, I know, I'm a little anal with a side of OCD, attending group therapy  twice a week  anyhow, I will take a few pics and post them for you Creighton, maybe you can give me some input, it has actually deteriorated all around the medallion hole, it's no longer a perfect circle, I know I can brase it to build it back up and just grind away at it, recut the circle and so on, and in theory it all sounds great lol but I've been down that road before lol anyhow all this blabber is useless without a few pictures so I will try to post a few later on, operative word being " try "... Thanks guys !

Jeff !

It was over 100 miles away one way, and I really didn't have good transport. If it was close by
I'd have at least went and looked at it.

I got burned on a huge machine that I went over 100 miles both ways to get. Not because of the seller,
but because I didn't know the kind people at the EPA had banned R-12 until after I bought it. That
gives me some pause on "long-distance" machine hunting.

I will make a copy of your post though. If another one comes up for sale, I'll have information
for checking the compressor out.



 

Just a suggestion - your probably never going to find a box at a price you want to pay that doesn't have some kind of baggage. If you can get the person to somehow insure you that the compressor will run, and the until is at the right price and condition, then tell him you'll expect the compressor to be running when you get there. He doesn't have to run it over night, but he can plug it in a couple of hours before you get there. Take a thermometer with you and measure what the temperature is when you get there. Anything below 45 degrees and it's probably working fine depending on what temperature the surroundings were for the previous 24 hours (the cooler the surroundings were, the cooler the box should be, to as low as 35-38 degrees). You can also look to see if ice is accumulating at the transition from the capillary tube to the evaporator. If no ice, it's probably low on charge (typical for older boxes) or the temporary condenser fan is not doing a good job.
You can also look at the line that leaves the compressor, headed to the condenser coil. It's the one that is about 18" long (not the one that has the capillary tube soldered to it). See if has a wet looking appearance around the compressor where the solder joint is, or anywhere along that line. That line is made of steel, and usually starts rusting though due to the way they hard soldered it together. The wet appearance is from oil seeping through.

The baggage side of the equation that is most all of these decks are old and have seen a lot of abuse. To find one with an already new reliable deck is probably going to cost more than you want to spend. If the box is the right price, and it get's cold, and is in good enough shape for what you are willing to put up with, buy it, and be prepared for any eventuality. Even a new compressor can fail. I'm just preparing you for what you may be in for.

It's like buying an old car - it may run good and look good, and may need a few parts here and there, only to run forever, but then it may also blow an engine or transmission the next time you drive it.

There are people on here that will help you get it running again if it crashes.

Hello, MrMark.

I don't think I should take a chance on it then. I might fix the fan and it run fine, it might burn slap-dab up right after i
get it fixed. It's really too far away anyway.

I would like to have a USS-64, but not with a possible faulty compressor. Thank you so much, you've helped me avoid a
potentially expensive mistake.  

If it's the fan near the compressor, it is the condenser fan.

The motors are pretty cheap, so if it's intermittent, just get a new one and be done with it.

Most all motors built today, and very likely back then, have internal overloads that monitor winding temperature. If the winding get's too hot, it shuts the motor off. When it cool's enough, then the overload closes and the motor runs again.

Beware of compressors that have had to run for extended lengths of time with a bad condenser fan motor. The external fan had to be properly positioned to minimize excessive head pressure. Excessive head pressure is murderous to compressors, as well as causing a breakdown of the compressor oil.

Always beware of "it worked last time we used it" statements.

It is possible, that if the compressor is having an issue, that the condenser fan motor is slowing down when the compressor tries to restart (by dropping line voltage due to it not starting).

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