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21. Re: [Shop-talk] To kill a refrigerator (score: 1)
Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:50:19 -0700
My late wife's grandparents literally lost their farm, because the county agent talked them into buying a tractor just before the Great Depression hit. When they couldn't make the payments because n
/html/shop-talk/2007-08/msg00117.html (10,502 bytes)

22. Re: [Shop-talk] To kill a refrigerator (score: 1)
Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:00:19 -0400
Payback for a refrigerator that was built in the 70's is probably a bit less than 2 years. I'd bet the savings are about the cost of financing it. -- David Scheidt dmscheidt@gmail.com _______________
/html/shop-talk/2007-08/msg00119.html (9,473 bytes)

23. Re: [Shop-talk] To kill a refrigerator (score: 1)
Author: "Chadwick E. Labno" <chad@linuxeg.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:05:45 -0400
I would think low voltage would cause the motor to over heat which may or may not kill it - thermal overload switch should protect it - but might be worth a try. Calculate the power consumption (watt
/html/shop-talk/2007-08/msg00120.html (9,374 bytes)

24. Re: [Shop-talk] To kill a refrigerator (score: 1)
Author: Shannah Miller <shannah@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:19:31 -0700 (PDT)
Well, I'm going to be a maverick and take it from the wife's perspective. Having an appliance that works, and does what I expect it to, in the way I expect it to, is a huge savings in effort every da
/html/shop-talk/2007-08/msg00121.html (10,189 bytes)

25. Re: [Shop-talk] To kill a refrigerator (score: 1)
Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:20:19 -0700
You may be right ... but I sure haven't seen any huge reduction in my electric bill. And what I do see is probably at least 1/2 because the pool has been drained; that 2hp pump draws a lot more than
/html/shop-talk/2007-08/msg00122.html (9,444 bytes)

26. Re: [Shop-talk] To kill a refrigerator (score: 1)
Author: "Dennis Lambert" <DLambert@anaheim.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:33:23 -0700
I didn't live through the great depression, and have the utmost respect for those that did - I've heard the stories and many sound horrific - but I'm still pretty darn cheap. In retrospect, I lived w
/html/shop-talk/2007-08/msg00123.html (10,901 bytes)

27. Re: [Shop-talk] To kill a refrigerator (score: 1)
Author: "Ron Schmittou" <rs1121@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:33:37 -0500
As the proud owner of an ancient slump shouldered Frigidaire that use to be my Great grandparents, I am amazed it still works - I think it was built in the early 50's, and according to all the family
/html/shop-talk/2007-08/msg00124.html (9,770 bytes)

28. Re: [Shop-talk] To kill a refrigerator (score: 1)
Author: David Hillman <hillman@planet-torque.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:37:39 -0400 (EDT)
[snip] Whoa, that's a whole 'nother discussion. I'm not saying the silly part is buying a new fridge, since they definitely don't make anything like they used to. The silliness is in destroying a per
/html/shop-talk/2007-08/msg00125.html (9,537 bytes)

29. Re: [Shop-talk] To kill a refrigerator (score: 1)
Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:49:03 -0400
My grandmother still uses a Frigidaire she bought in the late '40s. I shudder to think what it costs to run! -- David Scheidt dmscheidt@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Shop-
/html/shop-talk/2007-08/msg00127.html (9,239 bytes)

30. Re: [Shop-talk] To kill a refrigerator (score: 1)
Author: Mark Andy <mark@sccaprepared.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:03:03 -0400 (EDT)
FWIW, that's my take on it too, along with a helping of "Man, I'd hate to be the guy in between the old man and his wife _when_ she finds out about this" Mark _______________________________________
/html/shop-talk/2007-08/msg00128.html (8,491 bytes)

31. Re: [Shop-talk] To kill a refrigerator (score: 1)
Author: Wayne <wmc_st@xxiii.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:53:04 -0400
Score one of these guys for $20 and find out: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882715001 I actually paid $40 for mine; but discovered my HVAC WAY outsucks everything else. -Wayne
/html/shop-talk/2007-08/msg00129.html (8,399 bytes)

32. Re: [Shop-talk] To kill a refrigerator (score: 1)
Author: Pat Horne <roadsters@hornesystemstx.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:40:46 -0500
Or turn it down to put out about 70 volts, duplicating a brown out. Peace, Pat Thusly spake pethier@comcast.net: -- Pat Horne, Owner, Horne Systems (512) 797-7501 Voice 5026 FM 2001 Pat@HorneSystemsT
/html/shop-talk/2007-08/msg00130.html (8,611 bytes)

33. Re: [Shop-talk] To kill a refrigerator (score: 1)
Author: Johnny Hinman <johnnybh@alltel.net>
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:43:20 -0400
Anybody who will knowingly take sides in a domestic dispute between a wife and her husband is a lot braver than I. johnnyb _______________________________________________ Shop-talk mailing list http
/html/shop-talk/2007-08/msg00131.html (7,917 bytes)

34. Re: [Shop-talk] To kill a refrigerator (score: 1)
Author: "Ron Schmittou" <rs1121@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:49:31 -0500
SO - at the risk of sounding prurient, What was the end result? I never saw any headlines on Fox about elderly man injured in dispute with wife over fridge?? _________________________________________
/html/shop-talk/2007-09/msg00074.html (7,062 bytes)

35. Re: [Shop-talk] To kill a refrigerator (score: 1)
Author: eric@megageek.com
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:58:53 -0400
Since Ron asked for an update I'll give you all the answer... (Note, I'm not proud of my actions, but I did "help a great old man!") Turns out, the Gods favored my decision to act, because about a we
/html/shop-talk/2007-09/msg00076.html (8,562 bytes)

36. Re: [Shop-talk] To kill a refrigerator (score: 1)
Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:52:04 -0400
Curtains. -- David Scheidt dmscheidt@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Shop-talk mailing list http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/shop-talk
/html/shop-talk/2007-09/msg00077.html (7,331 bytes)

37. Re: [Shop-talk] To kill a refrigerator (score: 1)
Author: Mark Andy <mark@sccaprepared.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:53:43 -0400 (EDT)
You shoot out the lights. Duh. Mark _______________________________________________ Shop-talk mailing list http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/shop-talk
/html/shop-talk/2007-09/msg00078.html (7,070 bytes)

38. Re: [Shop-talk] To kill a refrigerator (score: 1)
Author: pethier@comcast.net
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:34:17 +0000
I live in a city and I don't have lights blinking in the windows all night. -- Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA 1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1993 Suburban, 1994 Miata C p
/html/shop-talk/2007-09/msg00079.html (7,720 bytes)

39. Re: [Shop-talk] To kill a refrigerator (score: 1)
Author: "fred thomas" <frede.thomas2@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:05:36 -0400
== I live in the country and we have ==NO== street lights, street lights are reserved for the shopping centre "FT" _______________________________________________ Shop-talk mailing list http://autox
/html/shop-talk/2007-09/msg00080.html (7,702 bytes)


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