"Al, Cambridge, UK" wrote in message
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Andy Dingley wrote:
On 17 Dec 2004 06:41:12 -0800, "Al, Cambridge, UK"
wrote:

The motor runs, the heat exchanger on the back gets almost too hot
to
touch and the unradiator thing inside gets icy cold.

Lost pressure. It still "works", but is now so inefficient (hence the
extra heat) that the motor is flogging its little guts out trying to
keep up. It's probably cycling on just the motor overheat limit.
:


Try getting it re-gassed. I paid £65 to get our 4 year old frost free fridge
regassed. Engineer said it would probably fail again (in year or two time if
it had a leak) though it could have been that we had not let the fridge
settle for many hours (6 I think it said in the book) before turning it on
after moving it. Anyway still going cooling my beer fine 18months later.