Installation of the Amish Cooling Coil Units

Dutch_12078 wrote:

JJBIRISH wrote:
I appreciate your opinion and have a great deal of respect of it… although honestly have almost no faith or respect in the BBB ratings, but they are a tool that can be used just the same…
All the early evidence points to it being a good product but I think the NC 1200 double wide series is the only ones using their own design, all the others can be new or remaned, but I could be wrong about that…

I hope they prove to be as good as claimed, because someday I may need one… it’s an expensive part for an expensive appliance that just must work…
Thanks…

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of BBB ratings either, but I thought the drastic difference in this case was noteworthy. I should have been clearer that I was primarily speaking of the 1200 series design. The other models are available in either new or remanned, the buyers choice. I think the 1200 is the only model they refuse to remanufacture due to its fundamental design faults. The new units are built with the same thicker wall tubing as the 1200's though. I don't know either if any design changes have been made, or were needed, in the other models. My 18 year old Norcold 6182 still works perfectly and shows no obvious signs of corrosion, but I will definitely use a new Pines unit if it should need a replacement before I move on to a different rig.

Just to be fair I am not as impressed with the Amish cu’s or do I buy the marketing hype…

The Amish are people like us… their craftsmanship is in the fore front and born from need… almost all were raised with a general building knowledge and work ethic… like others each of their craftsmen are so in the fields they best fit, but not all arise to the occasion and not all are craftsmen per say…

Amish quality is a term that is used in marketing, and very often misused in marketing for profit…

I am very aware of the Amish abilities and inabilities and see them at work and working everyday…
I hope this company lives up to the hype so when I need a cu the choice is as easy as just buying a Amish unit… but so far as I said the jury is still out, their reputation is great, but I have also read about and have seen evidence of failures with the Amish units, including the totally redesigned 1200 NorCold series…

You can see the sodium chromate leaking from the boiler around the electric cartridge holders… had the fridge been used on propane would have also caught fire (picture from another blog site) Amish cooling unit under 2 years old…



I hope to read many more honest and true first hand experiences about them in the future…



I really hope unlike one of the most popular top of the line hitches that keeps reporting and customer enthusiasm high by what seems to be the elimination of the factual negative reviews won’t happen here…