Picked up a GM product yesterday...

[balthazar]

It's vintage, has a surprising quantity of aluminum in it, it's quick, and it's pretty cool.

Pics on the way....

[Robert Hall]

Hmmmm...some sort of Frigidaire appliance?

[balthazar]

Dammit, Moltar; too quick !!

Actually- only part of one :

See, I told you it was 'quick' :

Clever engineering here: the handle to pull out the tray self-uprights when you slide it back in (note 1st pic). I love stuff like this :

I'm going to use this one, or at least test it out. As I recall from childhood, they tend to explode the cubes quite a bit. But there's no knocking the longevity factor here...

Edited April 27, 2011 by balthazar

[Croc]

That looks seriously cool!!

[Robert Hall]

Cool..that tray is very similar to the ice trays in my folks' '67 GE fridge, it lasted about 35 years...

[balthazar]

Just an update- been using the Frigidaire tray since the initial post- this thing makes great cubes. They're larger than plastic tray cubes, the insert has enough wiggle to it that the cubes come out in different-shaped hexahedrons and somehow (the aluminum?) makes them denser, too. GM engineering endures.

[Camino LS6]

I remember my parents having some like that - but I think they were another brand.

[frogger]

I have something similar but unbranded, that I use, I don't know how old it is. Old owners left it behind in the freezer.

[67impss]

I remember some w/o the lever it was in the Ice Bin you took the tray inverted it on the bin pulled the lever and the content dropped in or as you said explode but 99.8% was captured. BTW run cold water before cracking said ice will leave larger pieces.

[Robert Hall]

I remember some w/o the lever it was in the Ice Bin you took the tray inverted it on the bin pulled the lever and the content dropped in or as you said explode but 99.8% was captured. BTW run cold water before cracking said ice will leave larger pieces.

I remember doing that as a kid...my Mom finally got a modern refrigerator w/ ice cuber in the door in 2002 when her 35 yr old GE died.

[67impss]

Hard to give up on something that still works well even if inefficient. I have a 50's Frigidaire furnace in the new to me foreclosure home we moved to after loosing my house of 21 years. The thing must be like 25% efficient by now but I can't afford to replace it till I find a job.

[balthazar]

>>"35 yr old GE"<<

Too bad they don't make them like THAT anymore.

Cubes don't explode out of this one, and there's really little splintering.

That was a childhood recollection, but I couldn't provide any tray specs there.

[67impss]

Balthy specs? Please give spec info

J/K ya

[daves87rs]

Cool!