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Nate Nagel typed:
Willie The Wimp wrote:
Little brick bungalow in midwest US, built in 1954. Mostly original
stuff. Floor-boards creak a good bit. I'm alone here.

Every night, in bed, I hear a CLUNK from the direction of the
kitchen. Often a second one, not too long after the first. I've
heard it while in the dining room as well. Never while I was in the
kitchen. I orignally figgered it was in the studs or rafters, possibly
where they attach to the forced-air ductwork. If so, I may never
find the cause.

Fridge is an Amana built around 1984. Has given very good service.

It sometimes sounds like it is coming from the fridge, but I can't
tell for sure. Do they CLUNK when the compressor shuts off?

Any other ideas?

OH gee, this is a trip down memory lane for me! Back when I was "almost a
teen" and felt like a man, I slept right next to a wall that had, get this,
a 1948 Amana Fridigaire on the opposite side! This would have been 1954 and
later. I always wanted to keep that sucker because it seemed to just run
and run with never a problem except one time it sprung a freon leak; luckily
it stank to the high heavens so Dad was able to figure out quickly what it
was!

Amyway, that fridge would definitely "clunk" when it shut off! Not always,
but often enough to get your attentiong.
And occasionally an additional thump a few minutes later, further assumed
due to the hi-pressure side pressure leak-down for easy-start next time. It
was sort of muffled a little sound, but at the same time loud enough to hear
all over the camp and even outside if you happened to be around. Kind of
like, IMO, wrapping a piece of steel in a towel and dropping it onto
something real hard.
Dad always said it was the compressor head banging on the side of the
cylinder sleeve when it stopped at its lower-most point, and it wouldn't
hurt anything. If it did, we'd get a new one; after all, it came from a
junkyard in the first placeg. It served us for over a decade of all-summer
living and was still working when the camp was finally sold.
Once or twice we thought we'd beat it by carefully levelling the fridge,
but ... nope, it came back eventually! lol, I hav en't thought about that
in years!

There was another strange noise up there that we never did figure out. When
I was around 16 or 17, fairly during the night, there would be a "bong"
sound, like a piece of sheet metal being bent. It seemed to come from under
the camp; it was build right on bedrock, raised a bit by 5 gallon cans of
cement piers. But we never found anything under there that would/could make
that noise. There were no heat vents, just a very large kerosene space
heater to heat the place.
It had to be critters walking on something, but we never figured out
what. My Mother called it our own personal ghostg. NOT a lot of help at
that still gullible age!

Nostalgia; it used to be so great!

Twayne



Thx,
Willie

possible. I had an old dehumidifier that used to clunk and rattle
when it shut off.

Does fridge have an icemaker? Might be the pipes knocking when the
water shuts off.

nate



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