On 1/21/2013 7:31 AM, bob haller wrote:
On Jan 21, 3:57 am, "NotMe" wrote:
"hr(bob) " wrote in message

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My Coldspot/Sears upright freezer is dying. I am trying to figure out
how long we have had it. 30+ years is my wife's guess. Model is
106.628440. The original parts list does not have a date and we can't
find any sales slip or other info. Any idea how to tell about how
old it is?

Were the operating instruction written in Sanskrit?

a new freezer will pay for itself in under a year in eletricity
savings, note chest freezers are far more efficent than upright
ones......

I have an old freezer and wondered if replacing it would pay for itself
in some short time. BTW, mine is not broken and still works quite well.
Someone here suggested that I use a Kill-a-watt unit to check how much
electricity the thing actually uses. I feel stupid because I have a
Kill-a-watt unit and didn't really remember that is can be set up to
gather power data over a long period of time. Anyway, I ran the freezer
through the Kill-a-watt for a week and then calculated the cost using my
local provider's cost per kilowatt. I found that it only cost about
$110 per year to run it. So it would not pay for itself in a year or
even several years, so it's still chugging along. I know this doesn't
help the OP as his is on its last leg.