12 volt Refrigerators

MFL wrote:
bob_nestor wrote:

(There were absorption type refrigerators made for household use years ago. As a kid it used to be my task to refill the kerosene tank on ours monthly.)

Good post earlier in it's entirety, but above has me thinking Bob was born around 1921-2??? :)

Jerry

wanderingbob wrote:
We had " absorption type refrig in the 50s . One ran on propane and the other ran on kerosene . As I remember the kerosene had a wick that my mom had to 'trim ', what ever that meant to a five year old .

Dad bought a used absorption fridge the summer before I was born, '49. In '58 bought new house and first electric fridge. Re-jetted it to burn natural gas, put it in basement for beer. Sometime when I was across the water in green clothes it was converted back to propane, and moved to a cabin that was past the end of wire. Sometime in the late '70s/ early '80s They got power to the cabin. In the late '90s I saw that fridge on the porch of the cabin. (the BB mark started a story) "Does that still work?" Yes, use for drinks. And if we leave food here when go home we put it in there incase power goes out.

BTW, before electricity was domesticated well off people had a icebox in the house. Ice was delivered door to door. (Many early trucking companies had names like JOHN DOE and Sons, ice and coal Use same truck depend on season) The plants that made that ice worked on absorption.