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| Thread ID: 38710 | 2003-10-16 03:04:00 | OT: Whats wrong wif my fridge | csinclair83 (200) | PC World Chat |
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| 183729 | 2003-10-16 03:04:00 | first i wanna say its a old fridge and has a small frezer compartment in the top left corner.... anyway..i turned it off yesterday to defrost it and after abit of letting the ice soften/melt i got a spoon and got all the ice off, and then when i closed door, turned it back on, it didnt seem 2 be working....so turned it off again and opened door and there was this cold gassy air coming zooming out of somewhere around the freezer compartment... so hurried and took the fridge outside so it doesnt affect the house air coz i'm asthamtic.. and then when i turn it on the gas stopped, but the whole fridge stank so left it plugged in and nothing inside fridge, and used a friends one for now...and just before i decided that its been airing out for long enough,.opened it and there was this greenish watery stuff at the bottom of the fridge...and saw that its been leaking out of the freezer bottom......and as we speak its unplugged and outside airing as the stink is soooo strong, but no gas coming from anywhere... do you know what could be wrong? I'm asking coz earlier today i went to a couple fridge repair shops and they quote $25-$40 to come and have a look....and as being a student, that kinda cash aint around lol... |
csinclair83 (200) | ||
| 183730 | 2003-10-16 03:24:00 | How violently did you apply the spoon? If you got a stream of cold gas coming out, you might have broken into the sealed refrigerant circuit and have killed another few kilogrammes of ozone, by releasing the dreaded R12 Freon. :_| The freezer compartment has a tube fixed to it ... that's where the cooling comes from. The cold gas goes through it taking heat and thence out to the radiator at the back and into the compresssor. I'm not sure whether there is green refrigeration oil ... but that's what it probably is. :-( There's only a few fluid ounces of Freon ... wouldn't take long to escape, so there won't be any gas coming out now. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 183731 | 2003-10-16 03:30:00 | my next door neighbour came over just after i posted this and said it is fridge oil...and also mentioned the fridge is over 30 years old...(its a block of flats and all are by same owner and has same fridge etc) maybe it was wearing out and the spoon i used just finished it off... and the repair status is? can it be repaired? or written off? i've got a major concern coz its not my fridge... |
csinclair83 (200) | ||
| 183732 | 2003-10-16 03:34:00 | OK. I give up! What the hell does 'OT:' mean at the start of a subject in these posts? |
oggy (1250) | ||
| 183733 | 2003-10-16 03:36:00 | Anything is repairable - at a cost. In your case it's a write-off. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 183734 | 2003-10-16 03:37:00 | OT Means Off Topic | csinclair83 (200) | ||
| 183735 | 2003-10-16 03:37:00 | OT means off topic - not computer related. beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 183736 | 2003-10-16 03:43:00 | Not really repairable -- the tube is likely to be aluminium . Anyway, even repaired, it can't be filled with the same gas (R12 is banned) and the efficiency is poor when a unit is used with a different gas . Perhaps it was rotten, and the only thing holding the gas in was the ice . :D I think it would come under fair wear and tear --- especially if the fridge is 30 years old --- unless you left obvious scars from over-vigorous chipping . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 183737 | 2003-10-16 03:43:00 | if the freezer bit is written off can it be removed and the fridge still useable? or are you saying the whole fridge is written off? |
csinclair83 (200) | ||
| 183738 | 2003-10-16 03:46:00 | Yes. It would cost far more to repair than to get another used one. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
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