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I'd be a bit cautious for two reasons.  First of all, if it's old, it
may fail and leave you with some ruined food.  In addition, an old
freezer probably isn't as well insulated as a newer one, costing you
more electrical consumption.

Have you considered making it "child safe," by removing the latch,
putting it out behind the house and using it as an upright smoker?  A
lot of good barbecue has come out of old, abandon refrigerators and
freezers when folks put a barrel beside them and feed the smoke from
the fire into the old freezer with a stove pipe.

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Paul Gronke wrote in message <6mj68e$b9h$1@news.duke.edu>...
>An old Frigidaire upright freezer was left on the screen in porch of
a house
>we are buying.
>
>The freezer clearly works (lots of built up ice/frost inside) but has
some
>real problems.  The door seal needs to be replaced but more
seriously, the
>bottom of the front door has some serious rust, so much that I can
push in the
>metal and feel the inner insulation.
>
>Not sure if the thing leaks air badly; there was some water beneath
it, but
>this may be due to the bad door seal.
>
>Questions:
>1) I was thinking of sanding off some fo the rust and painting the
thing w/
>rustoleum.  Reasonable?  Can I just ignore the corroded metal, fill
it in,
>etc, and have a working freezer?  (A freezer isn't critical, but we
need to
>economize so it could be helpful)
>
>2) How uneconomical is this thing likely to be?  I've seen chest
freezers
>posted on tri.forsale for as little as $75.  Is this upright so old
that it's
>likely to be very expensive to run?
>
>3) If I wanted to get an answer to 2), what do I need to know?  The
wattage of
>this thing?  Is there some device I can plug in between the outlet
and the
>freezer to measure its power draw?
>
>Thanks for any help.