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Post by coldspaces on Aug 20, 2015 2:39:33 GMT
A regular customer of mine is selling her parents house as they are both in a nursing home. Was called there to work on the AC and just had to ask if there were any old refrigerators in the basement. Sure enough there was one. Since the price was free I couldn't see why a person shouldn't own 3 flat tops. so it came home today. Its a little rusty from the damp basement it was in but was still plugged in and working till about a month ago. Must have been a long time since it had been defrosted as the glass dish was full as was the entire bottom of the liner. Must have had a real iceberg built up,I hope it hasn't all ran into the insulation.    Anyone know what the B at the end of the # means?  Looks like she has a real good frost line.  It has the static cooled condenser and fined compressor.  |
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Post by coldspaces on Aug 20, 2015 4:33:57 GMT
Well as I feared water definitely got in the insulation. The cardboard isn't all that discolored so I think most of it is recent. Now I am going to have to leave this one run with the breaker strip out so the coil can draw out the water. It is building up frost rather fast so I know it's happening.  |
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Post by ChrisJ on Aug 20, 2015 12:47:49 GMT
How do you think the water got in? Someone decided to defrost 5 years of ice at once and let it pour all over?
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Post by coldspaces on Aug 20, 2015 22:54:11 GMT
How do you think the water got in? Someone decided to defrost 5 years of ice at once and let it pour all over? Thats the way it looks. I suspect that her parents had not been going downstairs and it just never got defrosted for a long time. |
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Post by coldspaces on Aug 21, 2015 3:44:59 GMT
Here is about 29 1/2 hours of frost build up. Amazingly I can already tell the insulation is much drier. Defrosted it and running again to draw out some more water.  |
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Post by coldspaces on Sept 1, 2015 4:47:53 GMT
So far this corrugated insulation is doing a terrible job of drying out. At first the top layers seemed to dry out but after that is has been slow going. It sure must hold a lot more water than fiberglass ever thought of doing. Almost need some heat in the insulation to speed it up.
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Post by cablehack on Sept 1, 2015 5:22:58 GMT
So far this corrugated insulation is doing a terrible job of drying out. At first the top layers seemed to dry out but after that is has been slow going. It sure must hold a lot more water than fiberglass ever thought of doing. Almost need some heat in the insulation to speed it up. It certainly holds water very well. The cabinet for my CA-1 had water literally dripping out of the bottom when I removed the self tapping screws for the transformer. Once the insulation was out in the sun it dried pretty quickly, but was not reusable. It helped heat my house instead the next winter. |
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