Originally Posted by
01GTB
Guy stopped by my place a few months ago and asked if I would be interested in a commercial food service refrigerator. It belonged to a church that he did maintanence work for. He said they would like a donation for it, and suggested $40. I wrote them a check for $75. They purchased a new one after they were informed this one would need a new compressor. Being 11 years old they just decided not to spend $500 to fix it. I honestly didn't know much about them but figured I could sell it outright for well above scrap value. I've seen similar ones sell on
ebay, needing a compressor, for $300+. And that's what I was going to do. But after seeing it sitting in my shop for months I've thought maybe it would be worth repairing to sell.
Anyone run across something like this? Part of me thinks, get what you can the way it sits. Then I see ones sell for well over a grand that don't look this good. One way or the other this 50cf, 500lb beast needs to move...it takes up a ton of space.
How do you know it needs a compressor? One in three compressors returned to the factory for replacement were NDF (no defect found) and that is from a tech checking it (not a good one but good ones are hard to find). The only way really to know if it is truly bad is to run a megger/hi-pot on it to check the winding which is never done. I would pull out the mulit meter and check the system to confirm it's a bad compressor.
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