Do it Yourself: Re: [DIY] For the Holidays, I got a burnt out fridge

20 December 2011

Re: [DIY] For the Holidays, I got a burnt out fridge

Unless you have a good local appliance repair man I'd start shopping new ones. Thing with a fridge is you NEED one and you need one NOW.

--- In DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com, subprong <subprong@...> wrote:
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> Unfortunately I wasn't able to get the back off on time to see where the
> smoke was precisely coming from.
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> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 1:11 AM, Dale S <dalu@...> wrote:
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> > **
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> > *Merry Christmas, I'd just about bet on a new fridge but I'd check out
> > the source of the smoke first.
> > *
> >
> > *Dale in the Flat Lands:
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> > The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it; but in the end, there it is.
> > ~Winston Churchill
> > *
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> > subprong wrote:
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> > My initial thought was that the fan blade had been hitting something.
> > Suddenly the crackling started to progress and smoke started coming out
> > the back at the same time that I could see flashes or sparks through the
> > slits in the back cardboard cover. I immediately unplugged it and it's
> > still unplugged.
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