Gas Fridge Repairer

Easy to say - hard to lift! And, sad to replace a fine old piece of machinery with a modern piece of plastic rubbish!

It would make a good bomb shelter though.......Hmmm

I cleaned the burner, just brushed it off, and took the baffle out of the flue, which scraped the slight amount of soot off the sides.
The jet is clear, and the flame is as good, or better than before. I didn't really bang or knoock anything, but now, after an hour or so, the tube out of the top of the 'boiler' gets quite hot, but the hot stuff doesn't seem to move around at all.

It worked perfectly well until I 'fixed' it!! It would freeze a couple of trays of ice within 2 hours.

I'm sure there's a message........

Questions:
1. did you turn it upside down or on its side, while or before you cleaned it

2. how long have you let it run for? (since you cleaned it)

Answers: 1. No, it's all I can do to move it away from the wall!

2. A couple of days, and not a hint of cold. In the past, the freezer would start to ice up within an hour of light off.

Re-read your earlier reply wherein the flame seems "better than before"...it isnt too high?, Have you tried turning the flame down to about half and then try it?

They do need heat in the generator to work but too much also causes problems!

another question:
you didnt scrap the evaporator of ice?

If that doesnt work you can only try turning turning the fridge on its side to clear a possible restriction ...could be foreign matter or even crystalisation. You mayy need to leave on its side for a couple of hours, then its back and then upside down, then the other side.....does not have to be in that order just so long that they are all done. Try it as soon as its stood up.

oh ..and if that doesnt work try that procedure again a couple of more times!

you did clean the the rear of the fridge also didnt you?

Double Check to make sure the flame is under the stack and not to one side.

Do you own a boat by any chance or know some one who does:)

All sounds like good advice,

I'll try the turning it over/around/upside down thing, and also- maybe before I move it, run it at half flame.

I cleaned the back, and also checked that the flame is right under the flue.

I'd need a big boat, or as it slid silently into the water, and the chain unwound, we would surely follow it to the deep dark depths! Man, it's heavy!

I've heard the same remedy - turn it upside down for a while. Nothing to lose....

Not sure that thermostats were invented when these fridges were around!!

Yeah, there's a restrictor in the flue, which is a twisted piece of copper. It spreads the heat around in the lower part of the flue where it heats the liquid (I guess).
The thing in the flame is the safety cutoff thermocouple - and it's working fine. There is a thermostat thermocouple as well, and it feeds into the back of the cabinet up the top, and controls the flame to either High or Low. That all seems to work OK - just no COLD! Cheers, Vic

Thanks Len,

I reckon I'll give that a go when I get up there again. It'll take two of us to lay the blighter down, then tip 'er up on end, but it's still easier than floating it to a repair shop! Cheers.