Well Pete... your luck is contagious
I walked out in the garage this a.m. and found my water heater had created a
nice lake in the garage.... At least I know what I get to do tomorrow now
john
All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Bronlund" <peteb@clear.net.nz>
To: "shop-talk" <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 1:12 PM
Subject: [Shop-talk] Household appliances that breakdown on Christmas
Day....
>I thought that this small experience may be a timely
> remeinder to at least someone else on the List:
>
> Yesterday (early .... around 3am Christmas Morning) for me
> in my part of the world... New Zealand, i was awoken by the
> most terrible noise coming from the kitchen. The sound of a
> machinegun firing off... Close inspection revealed it was
> the refrigerator and that small fan in the lower deepfreeze
> section had gone AWOL big time. It appeared its bearings had
> decided very conveniently to fail and the fan blades were
> now crashing against the thin alloy casing and making a HUGE
> noise. This was a real problem as i'd just shopped so the
> freezer was full of meat for the Festive Break.
>
> Now in New Zealand you have no chance of calling out a
> repairman at 3am let alone any of having one for 3 weeks
> over Christmas period combining that is Summertime here too
> and you really need a refrigerator. The only option i
> settled for was to risk a melt-mess and switched the
> appliance off so the rest of the household could sleep...
> and wondered how i could buy a new fan motor when all the
> businesses here are on vacation....
>
> So during our Christmas Day and all the family commitments
> were in full swing, i found ten minutes to discover out what
> i could do about the broken-down 'fridge. I soon found this
> website: http://tinyurl.com/2sd729 which confirmed i needed
> a new fan motor...
>
> But the noise was worse by late afternoon (the 'fridge was
> back on to keep things cool and everyone had to talk in
> raised voices over the racket in the kitchen).
>
> This time i'd a decent look though and used my bright Fenix
> LED flashlight. Instantly i could see the problem. The whole
> "frost-free deepfreeze" was totally frosted up especially
> the duct around the fan that was chocked completely in ice.
> Freezers are kind of dark in the back there so you need a
> bright light source to investigate things.
>
> So (yes... on Christmas Day) i set to and did a huge
> thawing defrosting operation (taking the freezer contents to
> my neighbours who had some space in their freezer). Even
> used a small warm air fan heater to speed things along. With
> the duct around the fan cleared i repowered the refrigerator
> and PEACE, just the sound of a slight rumble.... NO NEED TO
> BUY A NEW MOTOR!
>
> So there you have it. Never jump to conclusions without a
> full investigation, is what i learnt (again)....
>
> And if your refrigerator is making a huge noise in the
> freezer section, check it don't need a defrosting (even the
> Frost-Free kind.... ;-)
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