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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