Date:         Sun, 20 May 2001 06:35:52 +0200
Reply-To:     Jutta & Christian Knust <knust-net@gmx.net>
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From:         Jutta & Christian Knust <knust-net@gmx.net>
Subject:      The fridge fired up! YES!!! (and I tell you how... ;-)
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Well, the previous owner of our 87 Westy just about never fired the fridge
up but used electricity only. As obviously lots of other people before me I
got a sore thumb trying to light the gas-burner of the fridge; I read all the
archive, pre-cooled the fridge with electricity overnight, blew oxygen with a
straw up the tube in front of the fridge and and and. Didnīt buy me more than
a short blow-up and nothing more.
Well, now incidentally I got myself a small compressor for inflating the
tires of our cars (one of these 15$-things running of the car battery) and I
said to myself - know what, might as well try to blow that compressed stuff up
the small tube. Guess what - I did everything strictly by the book - switching
the switches and turning the turn-knob and letting some gas come out of the
cooker-unit first to get any residual air out of the pipes and then - I did
not pump with the manual pump but instead blew five seconds worth of air with
the compressor up the pipe, switched the compressor off, pushed the gas-flow
button and immediately hit the spark-button once. And then the damned thing
lit! Right away! I removed the compressor from the pipe after I had the
gas-flow-button released finally (and then closed the pipe again, of course), had
the fridge run for an hour, then shut it off for half a day and did exactly
the same thing again. It worked again. Right away. Now you can bet I will never
move my Westy without that nice little compressor again. Might as well get
one of these "Compressor" stickers off the Mercedes 600 SLK to put it on the
fridge door ;-)))

Now thereīs one question left. I know thereīs a small ventilator mounted on
the back of the fridge. When does this thing switch on? At all times? At a
certain temperature in the back of the fridge? Only with the engine running?
Can one hear it running? Right now I have no idea whether it works or not but
knowing when it should and whether I should be able to hear it would make it
easier to find out, whether it works....

Have a great weekend, folks
Chris
Troy/Michigan

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