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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: "homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org" <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Homestead] In praise of Dometic
  • Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 16:52:51 -0500

A few days ago while we were discussing gas versus electric appliances I noted that I have a three-way refrigerator: twelve volt/hundred-twenty volt/propane. I bought it about thirty years ago to put in a bread truck camper called Sunbeam. I sold Sunbeam but kept the fridge but sometime in the intervening years I had decided that it didn't work and put it in an upstairs storage room to await a fix. Never store a large or unwieldy object in an upstairs room. Chris is now painting the upstairs rooms and wanted it out of there. So, being a wuss with women, I of course immediately capitulated and enlisted Don to help me move it downstairs and onto the trailer, thinking it would next visit an RV refrigerator doctor. Commonsense whispered in my ear and we moved it into the East Wing to try it out. After Don fetched his handy electric wire splicing kit and fixed the cord that a rat or mighty mouse had chewed apart, we plugged it in. After several hours it was not cold and I figured my memory was not in fact defective. But I turned the control to a lower setting and left it plugged in overnight. This morning the freezer compartment was at minus twenty degrees and the box was at twenty-plus. So although old and having been subjected to abandonment to extreme heat and cold, it didn't leak any vital substance. Apparently it simply needs time to build pressure. Now to see if it works on propane.

So I am high on the Swedish refrigerator company Dometic.

But of course I am very wussy where Swedish women are concerned. What sane man wouldn't be?





  • [Homestead] In praise of Dometic, Gene GeRue, 07/16/2006

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