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Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1  I agree!! And after calling and emailing all over the USA, I just got off the phone with a dear man in Utica (sp?) New York who is the oldest service repair company for Rich Plan (carrier) in the Nation....and looks like I am out of luck on getting that handle replaced. He said I will need to find a handy man who can just "Aggie engineer" that door latch mechanism....he said it wont be pretty, but it will work....he said is is a simple mechanism in there....and a handy man will be able to run something around the bar in there that the door handle pulls back on, opening the door....he was very intrigued with my freezer, and reminised about it like a long lost friend of his....he said they were true work horses and they simply do NOT make freezers that will continue to run for over 55 years, any more! A bit of trivia....he saidthere is a movie out on DVD, "A Killing in a Small Town" , and it has my freezer in that movie! The wife catches her husband cheating on her, and she murders the woman he was running around with, right in front of "my" freezer!
So now, I guess I will call my beloved contractor, who took very good care of me following Ike......he should be able to come up with some kind of way for me to get into that freezer! |
And I thought my 30 year old microwave was a workhorse! Wow! Sounds like your freezer was made back in the day when things were actually made for the long haul - ?before the great conspiracy to program them to fail the day after the last warranty ends - and hung in there a long time before it turned on you in your time of need. Still, it is to be commended for its long years of faithful service.
My sister used to have such old sliding glass doors that when the lock broke, there was no replacement still being made and she had to have a guy in to engineer a lock for her. He did a good job and it was only like $78.00 and that was less than 2 years ago. But she never gets charged very much for anything - I don't know how she sails through a home service call and out the other side without paying a ransom but she does. But something else happened to the door unit later and she finally did have to have it replaced last year. Hope your contractor guy can help you out - he probably can. Guys have such a way of knowing just what to do to fix things like that!