Old DeepFreeze chest freezer DF180 - how to clean coils?

[slantsixdan]

DeepFreeze model DF180, serial E101642, just like this one. Now I've got a lead on where to get a replacement lid gasket, I need to figure out how/where to access the condenser coils to clean them, probably for the first time in four decades. There seems no access from the rear or the front...do I turn the entire unit on its front and get at them from beneath, or...?

[certified tech group 51]

When the unit is running , are the sides of the freezer warm???

[slantsixdan]

Good question -- never checked. I'll have to plug it back in and see. If so, then what? (and if not, then what?)

[certified tech group 51]

The condenser tubing runs in  the walls , to keep the unit from sweating............

[slantsixdan]

Okeh, so what's the technique for cleaning out fifty years' worth of accumulated lint and cobwebs?

[RegUS_PatOff]

[user=1736]slantsixdan[/user] wrote:

... fifty years' worth of accumulated lint and cobwebs?...

there wouldn't be any if they are sealed in the walls

[certified tech group 51]

Does the unit operate/ get cold, down to zero degrees??  How long has the unit been unplugged???

[slantsixdan]

The unit operates fine and gets cold enough to freeze contents rock-hard, and keep 'em that way over the long haul (no, I mean the _long_ haul; as in, when I excavated to the bottom of it a week ago, I hauled out and discarded food grandma put in it in the 1970s, '80s, and '90s). It's been unplugged for a week.

[certified tech group 51]

 Replace the door gasket,  clean out the compressor area of bugs and other debris.......Do not put anything against the sides of the freezer......and you should be good to go for a some more years............