The walls are likely filled with foam of some sort.

I'd look at taking off the outer skin first.
Might be easier than thought of .

e.g. - rather than do a junk yard trash it - take it apart for smaller
parts - cut what doesn't seem to work... save what you want.
Scrap the copper tubes - and hum - freon ?
Caution - the freon is poisonous in a flame... hot water heater ?

Martin

Martin Eastburn
@ home at Lions' Lair with our computer lionslair at consolidated dot net
NRA LOH & Endowment Member
NRA Second Amendment Task Force Charter Founder
IHMSA and NRA Metallic Silhouette maker & member


Ignoramus19822 wrote:
My good neighbors asked for my help. They have an old refrigerator (an
ugly beast), lying on the floor of their basement. It needs to be
taken out. It is too heavy and big to be taken out by two guys. So
they asked me to cut it in half, and I agreed. (I will also remove the
motor)

My question here is what is the best way to do it given what I have.

My plan is to just take my 4.5" angle grinder, for which I have a few
4" HF disks, and cut through the outer layer around the "waist" of the
refrigerator (in the middle).

The fridge seems to be made of spot welded sheetmetal.

Would a grinder like this work at all? It is a decent little grinder,
as such, but the fridge is pretty big.

No O/A, plasma cutting tools, directed energy space weapons are available.

I could also go to HD and buy 7.25" disks for my circular saw, but I
worry about damage to bearings.

As a side note, I also have a 7" angle grinder that I bought from
traveling salesmen for next to nothing (Cummins Tools, they travel
with big trailer trucks), but I am a little afraid to use it due to
who I bought it from and for how much. But if anyone reports any good
experiences about it, maybe I should get a couple of disks for it
instead of the 4.5" grinder.

i



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