Thanks for the kind words everyone. This has been a fun project to do, but sadly, it doesn't end well. I dont know what happened, but somewhere along the line of painting this fridge, it decided it didn't want to work anymore. I purposely let this thing run for 4 days straight before I did a single part of this project to make sure it was running.
You can even see frost on the inside of the unit in my very first pictures of the intro thread.
Anyway, the compressor still works and I can hear liquid circulating throughout the system, but it doesnt cool at all. I double and triple checked my wiring to make sure I didnt wire something wrong and the wiring is exactly to the schematic.
I called 7 appliance repair places by me, and 4 of them wont touch a unit this old and of the three that would talk to me, all they said was it isnt worth it. R12 is SO expensive nowadays that for them to just recharge it, I got quotes upwards of $600 and thats assuming there isnt a leak or a problem with the compressor.
I guess I should have known better before I started this, but I figured this thing has been running for 55 years, why stop now? Oh well, thanks everyone and unless a miracle happens, I got myself a nicely painted, extremely heavy paper weight.
