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Date:         Sun, 28 Jun 2015 13:05:19 -0500
Reply-To:     jpalmer@MYMTS.NET
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From:         Jeff Palmer <jpalmer@MYMTS.NET>
Subject:      Re: Propane and refrigerator success
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
In-Reply-To:  <vanagon%2015062812360396@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
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Lots of people in cottage country use propane fridges if you're off the grid. They work as well as a conventional fridge. No idea if they use ammonia or what.

Jeff

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> On Jun 28, 2015, at 11:36 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote: > > At 11:52 AM 6/28/2015, Rocket J Squirrel wrote: >> It's been running in the upper 30s (C) hereabouts for the past few days >> and into the foreseeable future. I would not want my household >> refrigerator to be ammonia-based. Esp. since we do not have >> air-conditioning in our house. > > I can't say how it would have worked in that weather, but the > household-type gas fridge that I grew up with at my grandparents' > camp in New Hampshire kept ice cream perfectly well. To a kid it was > no different from the electric one at home, except quieter. If the > grownups gave it any special treatment I wasn't aware of it. > > Yrs, > d


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