Jordan, Thanks a lot for filming this video, it was interesting to watch! For your viewers: Jordan and I had a pretty lengthy conversation about this unit yesterday, and at Jordan's insistence, we agreed that the best course of action before installing this unit was to disassemble the fan motor and oil it. After spending several hours today taking the motor apart to service it, I'm pleased to announce that I was able to successfully get the motor working perfectly again. In addition to re-oiling the bearings, I also filled the bearing felts back up with oil, sanded both ends of the shaft to smooth surfaces, polished both sides of the rotor shaft's bearing surfaces, and cleaned and re-oiled all thrust washers. There is no longer any speed variation while running, and it also seems to run quite a bit faster and quieter. As such, it seems as though the fan is moving more air than before the motor was repaired. For some additional context - when I first got this unit, the bearings were indeed a little sticky, but it never made any squeaking or squealing noises more than once or twice for about 5-10 seconds out of dozens of attempts to run the unit.
Glad you were able to get it serviced properly. I think if it were run as-is, it would have ended up like the other one eventually. Hoping to have the same kind of results unlocking it.
Nice video on this model of Fedders, I’m very interested to see the restoration of your personal model. This was the window unit we had in our summer house when I was a kid, along with an Emerson, so it was very exciting to see after so many years. At the moment I’m using a Friedrich Twintemp 230 volt window unit with heating (10,700 BTU) and cooling (12,500 BTU) in my dad’s old shop. It has been sitting in a window, never operated, for over 25 years. The other day I turned it on and the fan motor took a while to start up, but I could hear the r22 flowing and it started cooling immediately! Spat out a ton of debris but it never lost charge despite being out in the weather. The reliability of these old AC units is insane, and I love the old r22 refrigerant, the new stuff doesn’t work as well and loses charge faster.
I'm quite fond of these units. The internals of these units are are very similar to the older Fedders units of the 70/80s. My grandfather had one of these with a rotary knobs. It was a "special edition" model with metallic gold text on the front grill and control panel. I haven't been able to find another one of the special models or a Fedders branded unit with rotary knobs.
@@JordanU if one surfaces I wish to get my hands on it. The back of the unit looks identical to the one you featured in the video. We've probably encountered plenty of them in the wild not knowing that they're the special model.
Nice unit Jordan, shame that fedders did not use ball bearing motors. Surprised that they did not make the conversion to ball bearings like most other companies did at the time. Well with some good liberation, hopefully these 2 units may come back to life and work great once again. Look forward to part 2.
these were sold in the same era as the Maytag units you own. It can be argued these were some of the very last decent air conditioners made. And this was probably Fedders last ever products made right before the buyout.
I have the same unit and the air flow is abysmal and the compressor overheated and failed I put it out of service because I was concerned about a potential explosion or fire hazard
Jordan,
Thanks a lot for filming this video, it was interesting to watch!
For your viewers:
Jordan and I had a pretty lengthy conversation about this unit yesterday, and at Jordan's insistence, we agreed that the best course of action before installing this unit was to disassemble the fan motor and oil it. After spending several hours today taking the motor apart to service it, I'm pleased to announce that I was able to successfully get the motor working perfectly again. In addition to re-oiling the bearings, I also filled the bearing felts back up with oil, sanded both ends of the shaft to smooth surfaces, polished both sides of the rotor shaft's bearing surfaces, and cleaned and re-oiled all thrust washers. There is no longer any speed variation while running, and it also seems to run quite a bit faster and quieter. As such, it seems as though the fan is moving more air than before the motor was repaired.
For some additional context - when I first got this unit, the bearings were indeed a little sticky, but it never made any squeaking or squealing noises more than once or twice for about 5-10 seconds out of dozens of attempts to run the unit.
Glad you were able to get it serviced properly. I think if it were run as-is, it would have ended up like the other one eventually. Hoping to have the same kind of results unlocking it.
Nice video on this model of Fedders, I’m very interested to see the restoration of your personal model. This was the window unit we had in our summer house when I was a kid, along with an Emerson, so it was very exciting to see after so many years. At the moment I’m using a Friedrich Twintemp 230 volt window unit with heating (10,700 BTU) and cooling (12,500 BTU) in my dad’s old shop. It has been sitting in a window, never operated, for over 25 years. The other day I turned it on and the fan motor took a while to start up, but I could hear the r22 flowing and it started cooling immediately! Spat out a ton of debris but it never lost charge despite being out in the weather. The reliability of these old AC units is insane, and I love the old r22 refrigerant, the new stuff doesn’t work as well and loses charge faster.
These sealed systems are extremely reliable, they seldom leak.
I'm quite fond of these units. The internals of these units are are very similar to the older Fedders units of the 70/80s.
My grandfather had one of these with a rotary knobs. It was a "special edition" model with metallic gold text on the front grill and control panel. I haven't been able to find another one of the special models or a Fedders branded unit with rotary knobs.
That's quite interesting, I've never seen or heard of such a model. I hope one surfaces someday.
@@JordanU if one surfaces I wish to get my hands on it. The back of the unit looks identical to the one you featured in the video. We've probably encountered plenty of them in the wild not knowing that they're the special model.
Good video bro i also like the Startup sound it makes on all 3 speeds and the humming sound I enjoyed the video
Glad you enjoyed it bro.
Thenkyou Jordan for Good feders
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I can't wait for part 2 of this Air conditioner cleaning and servicing soon bro
Coming soon.
Nice unit Jordan, shame that fedders did not use ball bearing motors. Surprised that they did not make the conversion to ball bearings like most other companies did at the time. Well with some good liberation, hopefully these 2 units may come back to life and work great once again. Look forward to part 2.
Thanks
these were sold in the same era as the Maytag units you own. It can be argued these were some of the very last decent air conditioners made. And this was probably Fedders last ever products made right before the buyout.
I do agree these were some of the last really good air conditioners made.
What SEER is it? I have this in my Roadtrek. And i am trying to replace it with a modern LG Double Inverter unit.
Awesome video bro.
Thanks
Additionally, based on this unit's serial number, it indicates it was manufactured in 2002.
Thanks for letting everyone know!
I have the same unit and the air flow is abysmal and the compressor overheated and failed I put it out of service because I was concerned about a potential explosion or fire hazard
Perhaps your machine needed to be cleaned.
I see less windows units in windows these days
Any older building around here is still full of window units.
I like it
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