Today is one of the first sunny days they've had! It doesn't have the gas regulator or bottle with it, as it's a long time since we used it on gas. In fact they'd move on from the Pyrenees because they were fed up of the rain. No, it wasn't hot - it was cold and raining when they phoned - and had been for the previous four days. Once when my workshop was very hot I struggled to get what I expected to work, to work, what I then found was it's the very bottom pipework that overheats and it's this then that needs most cooling.Īlso it works better if the back is fairly closely boxed in to create a chimney effect to get best use of the movement of air from the fan over the whole back of the fridge, that also applies to fixed fridges in vans.Īgain if running on gas materials used must be carefully choosen
What I found is it won't work or at least work well below 10 seconds, ie, there is a mechanical blockage, if I hear more I'll expect it to work once switched back on. All this does is remix the fluids which may have seperated into layers
JTQ, I've fixed countless fridges simply by turning over and listening for the last drop of liquid to drop and then turning back, what I want to hear is 10 seconds of dripping and at best 13 or 14, hence I say 15 seconds. Note, if it's running on gas you will need to safely protect the flame from the affects of the fan. If that might be the reason? then a cheap fan blowing over the lower part of the fridge can aid cooling the back of the fridge and get the beer a lot cooler. How hot is it down there?, these fridges take about 30 degrees out of the general temperature the fridge is in, ie if it's in the awning and that's at 45C, then the fridge will only get down to 15C. If this is with a working second hand one check for early signs of rust and treat these before installing it. If it has rusted to the extent that it leaked there appears no alternative but to replace the whole unit. The steel tubing that these ammonia circuits are piped in on the rear of our Electrolux/Dometic fridges is prone to corrosion in our caravan application where the weather can get at it particularly near welds and soldered joints where traces of flux have been left under the paint. The gas is ammonia and a leak is very evident by the smell if you are anywhere near the van when it occurred.
It’s interesting to hear that just leaving them for 15 seconds also works but that was not the method used by them.Īs that is not working, has there been a gas leak? They were left inverted for several hours in that factory, often overnight. The technique to get them working was indeed turning them upside down, and for whatever reason it often worked. I used in my college vacation to work for Prescold an earlier adopter of absorption domestic refrigeration, in the 1950s.
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