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The Natural Philosopher writes:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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Mark wrote:
No long ago I bought a Samsung Fridge.

Bad move. You can't get spares for these if they are more than a few
years old.

I'd say fridges are one of the few things that rarely need spares. Or by
the time they do few makers would still stock them anyway.

Mostly te plastic interiors call apart, and the door seals.

Lec is as good as it gets for that.


If they degass, chuck em.

For freezers, add in waterlogging (icelogging) of the insulation
when they first switched away from CFC expanded foams to more
environmentally friendly insulation (which meant chucking out
the freezer after less than half the lifetime it would have had
previously). Sigh.

The most unreliable parts are the fanned frost-free sections.
Avoiding units with those will give you a very much more reliable
fridge/freezer. The basic sealed system compressor technology has
been around for decades and achieved quite remarkable levels of
high reliability at low cost.

Sometimes gas leaks are obvious (a friend had one where the pipe
coming out of the vibrating compressor was rubbing against a bit
of fixed metal, and we had the same thing in an air conditioning
unit at work. A blob of solder to fix the hole and bending the
pipe away from this point permanently fixed both cases after
regassing.

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Andrew Gabriel
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