Date:         Thu, 22 Jun 2017 00:13:37 -0400
Reply-To:     Ed McLean <email99@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Ed McLean <email99@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Subject:      Re: Minor fridge mods addendum

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