Posted on 11/28/2013 11:24:48 AM PST by Rex1971
Edited on 11/28/2013 11:27:18 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Anyone who opposes the Affordable Care Act is a subhuman. It is a great law but lying republicans are trying to destroy it. I signed up with no problem on the website. Republicans want to repeal my new insurance. Obama is a hero!
He makes a lot of points. I hate it when he confuses me with facts after I have made my decisions.
Have a great evening and sleep tight! Sweet dreams....
There will really be sales if we can make it last until after Christmas, but I don’t really want to take the risk of it’s not cooling at Christmas. It would be one thing if we could count on cold weather, but it might be 80.
It’s tough when your crystal ball malfunctions. At least you still have the maternal eyes-in-back-of-your-head thing going.
That actually might work and if it does it will give you a big hint as to the issue.
Assuming the 'fridge is a 'frost free' model as most of them have been for several decades now, there is a little dodad up in its works called a 'defrost timer'. On the less ritzy versions (you know, the ones with the dial marked 1-9 for temp, as opposed to new allfantastic digital touchpad stuff) it usually hides up under the plastic cover where the temp dial is.
What it should be doing is periodically (time differs with mfg and model) turning off the compressor and turning on soome heat tapes intertwined through the coils. This melts the accumulated ice from the coils and the melt drips down into a pan typically located right behind the pretty kickplate dress panel along the bottom front of the unit. If you access this pan and it is dry as Death Valley in a heat wave over a period of a couple of days, it's a good bet that your unit is not defrosting.
What will happen then is that the ice will accumulate around the coils and eventually will reduce the air passages to zero diameter. When this happens the fantype device can no longer move the air past the coils to be cooled and then blown into the refrigerator compartment. And stuff gets warmer and warmer... An alternate possibility that could produce a similar affect is that the fan that is needed to blow the cold air is itself shot.
Two possible faults occur with the defrost timer. Either the clock motor timing mechanism quit clocking, or the contact set that is actuated by the timerthing is compromised - usually from the contacts becoming arced/pitted over the years and unable to conduct current. Either of these failures is rectified by replacing the defrost timer assembly.
Over the course of the 35 or so years we have had the same Frigidare refer, I have had to change the timer twice. It wasn't (on this model anyway) that hard to access or replace. A typical installation has the wires going to the device terminated with faston connectors so all you need to do is not mess up the sequence as you pull the connector off and reconnect it to the new... Even if you have someone else (translate: repairguy) replace it, it is a magnitude of degrees cheaper than buying a new refrig..
Get the model number of your refrig and do a search for 'defrost timer' for that model number (or alternately call whatever passes for an appliance parts place by you and say the secret words - "defrost timer for Frigidare BlahBlah - do you have and how much?")
I’m off to bed. Having some breathing problems, so I need to go relax.
See you tomorrow!
Interesting. I searched for “Whirlpool Gold Refrigerator Defrost Timer” and found several people on an appliance repair forum discussing refrigerators similar to ours. It would explain the episodic occurrence of our freeze-up problem.
Unfortunately, I don’t know anyone who fixes things like that in real life.
Sorry I don’t know.
Welcome Bikkuri and Derby Dawg !
Nully’s Mom, eh? You must be a strong woman. ;-)
There is a connection. Kansas and Nebraska were caught up the slavery issue prior to the American Civil War. It affected when and how they might be admitted to the Union.
Star Wars dealt with slavery as an issue too. Supposedly, slavery was a part of what made Darth Vader a bad guy.
I know about slavery because I wrote about in my book. But all my slave characters were happy. Um, okay, most of my slave characters were happy.
For whatever reason, the Mod Squad declined the opportunity to issue mom a password.
What? That’s just silly. Did she used to be a Lib or something?
Not hardly!
Oh well, tell her to hang in there. I’m sure she’ll be cleared in no time.
I’m looking forward to meeting her. :-)
I’ll see you all tomorrow/soon....
Sears, your friendly Maytag Repair Man, Hotpoint repair... Check Whirlpool's web site for a repair person near you, but if you can find out where the thing is and get the part, do it yourself and save some colored portraits of dead American historical figures...
Can't offer much more advice unless I have the model number to look up... Just using Whirlpool Gold I found several YouTube videos on how-to-do-it.. ;-)
FYI: Whirlpool, Amanna, Maytag, Jenn-Air, KitchenAid and several others are all the same company, plus any appliance repair place should be able to fix it (especially if you have it diagnosed for them...)
Sweet dreams!
What if your mom was some super-top-secret spy and only certain people were aware of her activities, and somehow the mods figured out who she is and that she’s a security risk to Free Republic as we know it, or maybe they got her mixed up with some other spy with a similar screen name, or maybe she dropped through a crack.... Is there anyone you can ask? Perhaps her IP address is similar to that of some stinker who has been banned, or her nic is the same as a stinker from another site. Can she choose another screen name? (If the dilemma isn’t resolved soon, I’ll continue to obsess about it. I was doing reasonably well until today.)
Hmm. A tendency to obsession could indicate you may have the potential to become a useful minion. I'll consider you for my list.
My dear sweetie pie, it’s not really a tendency; it’s more of a cataclysmic affliction. I’m unbearable when I can’t find something I’ve misplaces. I’m even more unbearable if you can’t find something you’ve misplaced. And keys—the worst thing in the universe to lose. Aaaaarrrrgggghhhh!
So what are the perks and bennies for being a minion?
Free poems?
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