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   Pangolin Posted 7:52 am
   30 Oct 2008

   Maintenance issuesA home refrigerator with two hydraulic pistons will have two grime collectors. As is, many perfectly functional refrigerators get tossed because people won't wipe off the magnetic seals when soda gets spilled on them. It's difficult to replace the seals correctly and frequently cheaper to buy a new unit.
   If you want your fridge door to close more easily simply slap a level on the top and adjust the feet so that the level reads half a bubble towards the hinge side with over-under fridges. For side-by-side units you want the unit level left-right but tilted half a bubble towards the front.
   Most refrigerators are not properly leveled when installed and work just fine. Just a bitty off level so that gravity gives the door a boost is ok.
   Oh, toss any fridge over ten years old and clean the coils on newer models. Except for a few models newer units are always more efficient.
   
   Put the Carbon Back

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   PermieWriter Posted 4:50 pm
   30 Oct 2008

   The basic problem with fridgesThey're designed to spill coolth on the floor when opened. Read Spider Robinson's various rants about how badly conceived kitchens and bathrooms are for more detail. Stupid, stupid, stupid. There's gotta be some elegant way of doing it without spilling cold all over the place every time you want a beer, fergoddessakes.
   Chest freezers are pretty sensible in this regard, but I don't think they make chest fridges. Also, it would be tricky to make the stuff easily accessible and free of moving parts.
   
   Eat what you grow, grow what you eat

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   KenG Posted 11:08 pm
   30 Oct 2008

   Refrigerator EfficiencyNew fridges often have warning buzzers if you leave the door open, a much cheaper solution than a closer. Cold air spilling out looks like a big energy loss, but the heat capacity of air is very small compared to the items you put in the fridge. You can significantly reduce this loss by keeping your refrigerator full. If you think you are losing a lot of cold air when you open the door, you just don't have enough beer. That's easy to fix.

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   moehrlei Posted 2:56 am
   31 Oct 2008

   So it's not a coffin - duhBecause we've killed enough kids with this appliance.  They crawl in, door closes, they die.
   
   No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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