Used Super Asia water dispensers & coolers in Islamabad & Rawalpindi
Is a used Super Asia water dispensers & cooler worth buying?
Super Asia is a Gujranwala manufacturer whose trade is sheet-metal fabrication and simple motors — washing machines, spin dryers, coolers — and in this category that shows in the product. What carries its badge most often is the steel-tank electric cooler for shops, offices and mosques: a locally fabricated cabinet and tank with a bought-in condensing deck underneath. Those two halves are judged separately.
Made or assembled in Pakistan
Spares are widely stocked locally and most technicians in the twin cities have worked on these, so common faults are usually economic to repair.
Super Asia spares move through the same washing-machine and dryer dealers that carry the rest of the range, so taps, float valves, thermostats and switches stay obtainable in Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Sealed-system work is ordinary fridge-technician work and a failed condensing deck can be replaced as a unit; a leaking fabricated tank cannot.
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Checking a used Super Asia water dispensers & cooler
These are specific to Super Asia. The general water dispensers & coolers checks apply too and are on the water dispensers & coolers page.
Judge the tank material
Lift the lid and look at the tank wall and the weld lines rather than trusting a label. Stainless stays bright and its seams stay clean; galvanised dulls to grey and blooms white where hard water has stood against it, and once that coating goes the tank is on borrowed time.
Check the float valve
These coolers are usually plumbed to a supply tank through a float valve rather than fed from a bottle. Work the float by hand: a valve that sticks open floods the cabinet and rots the base, and it is the commonest reason a cooler is found standing in a puddle.
Inspect the tap bosses
On a fabricated tank the weak points are the welded or threaded bosses where the taps pass through the front panel. Dry the area, run the taps, then look again for a bead forming at a boss, because a seep there soaks the insulation and rusts the cabinet from the inside out.
Check the deck is original
The condensing unit is a bought-in assembly sitting in its own compartment. Spliced wiring, mismatched mounting holes, or a compressor packed up on timber rather than sitting on its rubber grommets, mean the deck has been changed or moved — worth knowing before you judge the machine's age from its cabinet.
Read the capacity plate
Storage capacity and hourly cold-water output are stated separately on these machines. A cooler that kept up in an office will not keep up at a busy shop tap, and a unit written off as weak is often being asked for more cold water per hour than it was built to make.
What Super Asia water dispensers & coolers are worth
- The fabricated tank and cabinet set the ceiling, because they are the parts the machine is built around, while the condensing deck below can be replaced as an assembly.
- Rated hourly output rather than appearance decides which site a used cooler suits, so a plate that is still legible keeps the machine sellable to the buyer it actually fits.
- Spares travel on the dealer network Super Asia built for its washing machines and dryers, which keeps taps, float valves and switches ordinary counter items in both cities.
General water dispensers & coolers checks
These apply whatever the badge on the front says — the water dispensers & coolers page covers them in full.
Check how it cools
A compressor dispenser cools the way a fridge does and will bring water to a properly cold drinking temperature; a thermoelectric one uses a solid-state plate and only takes the edge off. Look behind the cabinet for a small black cylinder and warm coils, then fill the tanks, switch the cold side on and come back after twenty minutes. Merely cool water after that long means lost gas or a failed plate.
Test the hot tank
With water in the tanks, switch the hot side on and wait around ten minutes; the indicator should cycle and the red tap should give water hot enough to steam. Nothing at all usually means a burnt element or a tripped cut-out, and a tank thick with scale gives a slow, spitting flow.
Look for crust and rust
Pull the drip tray and look underneath and at the rear panel below the taps. A white mineral bloom, rust streaks or a stained cabinet floor means a slow weep that has been running a while. On most dispensers the cold tank is foamed into the cabinet, so a seam leak means stripping the machine rather than tightening a joint.
Work every tap
Press each tap fully and release it. A tap that keeps dripping after release has a perished washer, which is cheap to put right but tells you how much use the unit has had. Check the tap bodies and levers for cracks, and on push-button models make sure the button springs back rather than sticking in.
Open the bottle seat
Inspect the seat and probe the bottle sits on for cracks and for a hardened, dirty seal, since that is where most contamination gets in. Open the storage or refrigerated compartment door, work the hinge and check the gasket; on a compressor model a compartment that never gets cold points at a blockage in the cooling circuit rather than a door problem.
Look inside a deck cooler
On a steel electric cooler, lift the lid and look at the coil and tank walls. Water in both cities is hard, and heavy scale on the coil slows cooling badly, though it can be scrubbed off. Rust blooming along the base seam of the outer cabinet is more serious than surface rust on the side panels, because the base is what carries the weight of a full tank.
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