Thanks ed, I got your pmail and replied. I will try again to get the fin assembly detached from the pipe. And if, i mean when, i succeed I'll post pics. I was just guessing about heat gun helping. It might , I'll see Alistair
> On Jun 21, 2017, at 9:13 PM, Ed McLean <email99@BELLSOUTH.NET> wrote: > > I can't read steve meassick's messages because I only read from the > archives so I don't know what was said about using the heat gun. I've > not found a heat gun to be be necessary. The interior fins simply snap > on the cooling pipe. The fins can be twisted to break them loose and > then pulled off starting from the right end. The right end goes of the > cooling pipe goes through the back wall of the box and is supported > better than the left. It doesn't take a lot of force to remove the > fins. > > The modification I made was to remove the open section of fins and > replaced them with a section of cast aluminum cooling fins from an old, > old computer. This was similar to the original cooling unit but added > more net surface area for heat transfer. That modification, along with > a small fan and some thermal paste from Radio Shack (remember them?), a > couple of additional fans in the rear to remove heat and some insulating > of the chimney unit resulted in a refrigerator that actually works > pretty good in cool weather but still not so well in the Summer. > > > > On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 18:16:03 -0700, Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> > wrote: > >> It wouldn't budge and I didn't think of using heat gun. Will get around > to it. >> >> Alistair |
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