Date:         Mon, 24 Mar 2014 18:56:11 -0700
Reply-To:     Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Dometic refrigerator thermal paste source?
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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Listen to the Beiril. He knows from what he says.

--
Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
Bend, Ore.

On 03/24/2014 06:17 PM, David Beierl wrote:
> At 08:49 PM 3/24/2014, email99@bellsouth.net wrote:
>> I was at a RV service place today and they had never heard of using
>> a thermal paste like this.  Does using thermal paste instead of
>> mounting the Evaporator Assembly dry really help in refrigerator
>> efficiency?  I will, of course, put some Arctic Silver under the fan
>> switch on the upper fins.
>
> There's really little point in that, it will work just fine dry the
> way Dometic built it.  It's just a thermostat.   What you may need to
> do though is bend (or straighten really) the mounting tabs to restore
> the spring tension holding the switch against the fin.
>
> Zinc oxide thermal paste (or your fancy stuff) should work fine for
> the evaporator fins; just remember that you need an extremely thin
> layer or it will make things much worse than having none.  You want
> to fill in the points where there's no metal-to-metal contact without
> destroying any such contact that exists.
>
> Yrs,
> d