On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 11:24:21 AM UTC-4, nestork wrote:
Well, after manually defrosting the fridge by unplugging it and leaving

it to warm up for a few days, I plugged the fridge in and left a plastic

cup of water in the freezer compartment overnight. Normally, that's

long enough to freeze the water into a solid block of ice.



But, the water didn't freeze.



And, apart from defrosting itself once every 20 hours or so, the

compressor and evaporator fan were running continuously overnight so far

as I can tell.



My next step is to take the freezer floor out of the fridge so I can see

the evaporator coils and how frost accumulates on them. At this point

I'm expecting to see proof of a low freon charge, and am thinking I'm

going to be buying a new fridge shortly.



Why bother? If the compressor is running constantly, the fan in the
freezer is working, and it's been defrosted so it's not blocked by
ice, why do you need to see the coils? It's obviously a major failure
and it's not cooling.







I'll leave the fridge running with the water in a plastic glass in the

freezer for another day or two just to be certain that it's not gonna

freeze.

What good would it be if it finally froze after two days? If the freezer
can't freeze over night, it's screwed.


Then I'll take the freezer floor out and see what's happening

at the evaporator coil.









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nestork